Lindsey Hilsum
Do you blame the migrant men in Misrata?
In the hierachy of sympathy, young African men come right at the bottom. Migrant children or women might be victims, but men? They can look after themselves.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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Lindsey Hilsum
Libya divided as IS suicide bomber claims another attack near Misrata
The Dafniya checkpoint marks the entrance to Misrata from the Libyan capital, Tripoli. It’s the key point for ensuring the city’s safety. An attack here makes everyone feel vulnerable.
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MSF suspends work in Misrata amid torture claims
Médecins Sans Frontières tells Channel 4 News its doctors have been “patching up detainees in between torture sessions” in Misrata’s prisons. The charity is suspending its work there as a result.
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Libya: Gaddafi’s troops advance on Misrata
NATO’s call to ramp up the bombing campaign in Libya falls on deaf ears, as thousands of Colonel Gaddafi’s troops attack the rebel-held city of Misrata.
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Libya: Gaddafi forces ‘bomb oil storage tanks in Misrata’
Rebels in Libya say Colonel Gaddafi’s planes have bombed oil storage tanks in Misrata. But Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson says they may be not be accurate reports.
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Misrata's need for the Red Star One
At the dockside jubilant aid workers disembarked, chanting “Allahu Akbar” and “in spite of Gaddafi we made it to Misrata!” Alex Thomson blogs on the docking of the Red Star 1
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Misrata: On board the under-fire aid ship
A ship carrying humanitarian aid to besieged Misrata comes under fire, prompting UK Government protests. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson witnesses the desperate efforts to rescue the wounded.
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No escape from Misrata for the dying
Alex Thomson reports from the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, where a rescue ship, the Red Star, is being prevented from docking by the Libyan military.
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Awaiting safe passage from Misrata's bloody war
Beyond the horizon, 12 miles out at anchor, lies the Red Star ferry on charter to the International Organisation for Migration. Her 16 hour voyage from Benghazi to Misrata now an odyssey several days long as she waits offshore for notice that it is safe to dock.
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The battle to save the children of Misrata
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson visits a makeshift hospital amid the chaos of war in Misrata and witnesses the struggle of doctors trying to save young lives fatally wounded in battle.
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Libya: life in Misrata amid civil war
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson travels through the besieged rebel-held city of Misrata to witness the strange semblance of normal life – amid the shattering calm of sudden heavy bombardment.
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Trapped in Misrata amid dangerous seas
I suppose that our team too remains trapped here until The Red Star can safely dock and then leave for Benghazi in the east.
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Wedding day in Misrata
The rebels, like all armies the world over, want to have it all ways. They want to appear at a press conference with simultaneous translation and graphics presentation and talk about victory over government forces in Misurata. But in the warm light of day in the desert sun, they then have to admit that you…
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Misrata strike mystery: exclusive pictures
Channel 4 News has obtained photographs showing the devastation around a site near the Libyan city of Misrata where at least 12 rebels were killed in an explosions, blamed by locals on NATO.
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Libya: rebel deaths linked to NATO Misrata airstrikes
Up to 15 people, believed to be rebel fighters, may have been killed in a NATO airstrike in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, local sources tell Channel 4 News.
