The head of a former government announced plans Thursday to reopen Tripoli's airport that was heavily damaged in fighting in 2014, in a fresh blow to Libya's unity administration. Khalifa Ghweil, who...
Libya will hold elections in 2018. Conflicting factions in the country agreed to hold presidential and parliamentary elections by February next year. The head of the UN backed Government of National...
The state of emergency has been in place since a November 2015 bombing A state of emergency imposed in Tunisia in 2015 to curb attacks by militant Islamists has been extended by three months, the...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has confirmed the receipt of an official request from Libya’s United Nations (UN) backed government asking the group to help train the country’s...
Six years after the start of an uprising that toppled a dictator, Libyans in Tripoli see no reason to celebrate with power cuts, exorbitant prices and insecurity plaguing their daily lives. At a...
Clashes have forced 600 people to flee their homes in central Mali as traditional herding communities battle with farmers over accusations of jihadist infiltration and land use in areas hit by...
Rival factions have been fighting for power since the fall of Col Gaddafi's government in 2011 Egyptian negotiators trying to broker an end to the war in Libya say they have had some success in their...
Libya's transition has been bogged down by insecurity and chaos, leaving the country looking like a "failed state" six years after the NATO-backed uprising that ended Moamer Kadhafi's rule. "We got...
Football coach Ibrahim Sunday has attributed Ghanaian clubs failure at the continental stage on the poor organisation of the Premier League. Wa All Stars were beaten 3-1 at their backyard by Libyan...
The head of Libya's unity government and a rival army chief were to meet in Cairo on Tuesday to find a solution to turmoil in the country, a government official said. The UN-backed Government of...
Wa All Stars loss didn't go down well for George Afriyie The vice-president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) George Afriyie believes the late start of the Premier League contributed to Wa All...
Tunisia's prime minister on Tuesday rejected German claims that his country has been blocking the return of rejected asylum seekers including the key suspect in the Berlin attack, hours ahead of...
President Donald Trump has been increasingly chatting with other world leaders during his first weeks in office. On Monday he turned his attention to Africa. Trump spent Monday morning calling two of...
Zaya Yeebo Writes.. In 1982, Ghana shocked the football world, when the Black Stars won the African Football Confederation Cup. We had no resources, no training and no hope, here’s how we...
Renewed drilling by US oil producers is keeping a ceiling on a global crude price recovery, cutting into the impact of deep reductions by other major producers, OPEC said Monday. In its latest oil...
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday said he "deeply" regretted opposition to former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad as the organisation's peace envoy to Libya, days after Washington vetoed...
Zaya Yeebo Writes.. In 1982, Ghana shocked the football world, when the Black Stars won the African Football Confederation Cup. We had no resources, no training and no hope, here’s how we...
Armed groups mostly from Misrata located in Libya announced the creation of the “Libyan National Gua Libya’s UN backed unity government has denounced the creation of a new ‘national guard’....
"Islamophobia" in parts of the world is fuelling terrorism, the head of the United Nations said on a visit to Saudi Arabia Sunday, as anti-immigrant sentiment rises in some countries. UN...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday hailed the US veto of a Palestinian to be named UN envoy to Libya, saying the world body failed to give equal consideration to Israelis. "I was informed of...
