UN-backed Libyan premier to hand over power by end of October
Getty Images Fayez al-Serraj, the prime minister of Libya’s internationally recognised government, said on Wednesday he intended to hand over power by the end of...
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Libyan protestors burn eastern government offices
Protesters in Libya’s second city Benghazi set fire to the headquarters of the parallel eastern administration controlled by strongman Khalifa Haftar, a security source said...
Morocco warns of growing Islamic State in African Sahel-Sahara region
A cell of dangerous terrorists with allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) found with explosive belts, kilos of ammonium nitrate — the same substance behind...
83 stranded migrants rescued in Sahara desert
Reuters Eighty-three migrants were saved last week after their smugglers abandoned them in the Sahara desert in northern Niger, the International Organisation for Migration said...
Libya records 655 new virus cases
The National Center for Disease Control of Libya on Sunday reported 655 new COVID-19 cases. The center said in a statement that it received a...
Tunisian police kill three suspected militants after fatal attack on officer
Police in Tunisia chased and shot dead three suspected Islamist militants after they attacked two police officers, killing one of them, in the coastal city...
Six Chadian soldiers killed in attacks – officials
Six Chadian soldiers were killed near the Libyan border and in the southern Lake Chad region where Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadists have stepped up attacks,...
Libyan interior minister suspended after gunmen shot protesters
Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord on Friday said the interior minister had been suspended after militia gunmen fired on peaceful protesters last week. “Interior...
44,000 people missing in Nigeria, Ethiopia, other parts of Africa
Getty Images The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has revealed that about 44,000 people are registered as missing across the African continent, with...
Wild polio sufferers reflect as Africa set to be declared free of the disease
Nigerian Gbemisola Ijigbamigbe’s right leg was virtually paralysed after she contracted wild polio aged 11 months. Now the 28-year-old leads an active life as a...