Update No. 2 on the Situation in Tripoli

Chargé d’Affaires Elmer Cato and Labor Attaché Adam Musa meet with Filipino nurses at the Oil Clinic (top) and at the University of Tripoli Medical Center (bottom) to convince them to consider getting themselves repatriated in view of the escalating fighting in the outskirts of Tripoli. (Philippine Embassy Photo by Jasmine De Guzman)

15 April 2019 – The Philippine Embassy in Tripoli has doubled its efforts to convince Filipinos who may get caught in the crossfire of the escalating violence there to go home.

Aside from issuing advisories and constant online engagement with the estimated 1,000 Filipinos in the Libyan capital, the Embassy has been reaching out to Filipinos in churches, hospitals, offices and even houses to convince them to consider getting themselves repatriated.

On Sunday, Chargé d’Affaires Elmer G. Cato visited Filipino nurses in two major hospitals in Tripoli—the University of Tripoli Medical Center and the Oil Clinic of the National Oil Company—to check on their situation and to reiterate government’s offer to bring them home.

Chargé d’Affaires Cato said that although there were no takers, the Embassy will not give up and will continue to convince Filipinos to go home just to make sure they are out of harm’s way before fighting reaches the capital.

Chargé d’Affaires Cato said that since Alert Level III was raised over Tripoli and areas within a 100-kilometer radius of the capital last week, only 19 Filipinos have so far expressed their desire to be repatriated. Another 49 were evacuated by their employers to safe locations in areas outside the scene of heavy fighting since last week.

He said Filipinos in need of urgent assistance, including emergency shelter, may contact the Philippine Embassy in Tripoli through the number +218-91-824-4208 or +218-94-454-1283. or through "Philippine Embassy in Libya” Facebook Page. END