EU to provide tents, generators, humanitarian funding to Libya

The European Union is to provide disaster response equipment and humanitarian funding worth 500,000 Euros to Libya.

Independent Mirror report that the Commission announced this today stating that EU countries Germany, Romania and Finland offered tents, field beds, blankets, 80 generators, food items, hospital tents and water tanks to the country.

The Commission noted that the humanitarian funding is to go to organisations operating on the ground to deliver lifesaving health and water and sanitation supplies.

Libya’s representation at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland asked the EU for help on Tuesday after floods killed over 5,000 people, a press release said.