Danish NGO worker Marie Groth Kruse.

People in war-torn Libya are openly fighting in the streets as the frustrating lack of information keeps everyone confused and in the dark, according to Marie Groth Kruse.

Ms Kruse, a Dane, works as a programme officer for the Danish Refugee Council, a humanitarian NGO that aims to distribute emergency relief and promote lasting solutions to refugee problems. She works closely with the government-run detention centres, attending to the needs of the migrants.

Ms Kruse was evacuated from Tripoli, where she was based, last week because of the deteriorating security situation. She was in Malta this week for the launch of a report on mixed migration trends.

“The situation isn’t good,” she told Times of Malta.

“Normally, the fighting is contained in specific areas but people are openly fighting in the streets of Tripoli. There are a lot of roadblocks, sandbags [used as barriers] and burning tyres.”

She pointed out it was her third evacuation in just two-and-a-half months. One of the main problems, she said, was that, unlike other war-torn countries, there was no central information source.

“You’re there but you don’t really know what’s happening and who is fighting who. You glean bits of information from the media, the government and international organisations, which maintain a close network and feed each other.

“But it’s very difficult to gather how those pieces of information fit together to form the bigger picture.”

She was hoping the NGO would return in mid-August.

You’re there but you don’t really know what’s happening and who is fighting who

Last week, deadly clashes closed Tripoli Airport, severing air links with the outside world following heavy fighting between liberal and Islamist militias.

At the heart of this fighting is a turf war between militias that has been brewing in the capital for a long time.

The situation in Libya remains unstable as a complex web of armed groups, which emerged in the aftermath of the civil war, fight for power.