Blog posts tagged "Misrata"

October 14, 2011 11:41 am No Comments

As post-liberation euphoria on the streets of Tripoli starts to fade, residents of the Libyan capital are losing patience with their rustic 'liberators'. International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports.

May 4, 2011 1:42 pm 7 Comments

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

May 3, 2011 9:48 am No Comments

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.

May 1, 2011 10:11 am No Comments

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.

April 30, 2011 2:43 pm 2 Comments

I suppose that our team too remains trapped here until The Red Star can safely dock and then leave for Benghazi in the east.

April 28, 2011 1:46 pm 1 Comment

Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on why the rebel forces in Misrata were being uncharacteristically reluctant to take them to the site of a recent explosion.

April 27, 2011 4:20 pm No Comments

Life in besieged Misrata throws up many questions, blogs Alex Thomson. Why, for example, were thousands of migrant workers allowed to gather close to the port, where they inevitably became a target?

12:35 pm No Comments

The director of the only hospital still functioning in Misrata says "the world looks on. Like it's a movie. Like it's not real. But it is real. It's been 70 days now."

April 26, 2011 2:00 pm 2 Comments

Alex Thomson blogs from four miles off the coast of Misrata, on board a ship bringing relief supplies to the besieged city.

April 24, 2011 5:00 pm 14 Comments

"Getting past the phalanx of armed guards at the gates of the Rixos sans government minder is hard, but we’d obtained a contact who claimed to be a rebel fighter in the heart of the capital and we were determined to meet him. If he was prepared to take the risk, so were we..."