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...
An outbreak of armyworm caterpillars present in several southern African countries threatens to strip the entire region of key food supplies, warned the UN food agency Thursday. "It is probably only...
An air strike killed eight women and a child at a funeral reception near the Yemeni capital, witnesses said Thursday, adding to the conflict's mounting civilian death toll. At least 10 other women...
Donald Trump's shelving of the decades-long goal of a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict has excited Israelis and alarmed Palestinians and Arabs, but no-one is quite sure what it means....
The head of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and former British foreign secretary David Miliband on Thursday said the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Syria was still "appalling" despite a...
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...
Iran said Thursday that Israel's atomic arsenal is the biggest danger to world peace, a day after US President Donald Trump vowed to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon. Israel is the "biggest...
(This February 15 story has been corrected to fix spelling of mediator's last name to Mkapa in fifth, sixth paragraphs) The government of Burundi has said it will not attend peace talks scheduled to...
Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Thursday resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would require a two-state solution, a day after Washington signalled it would drop that demand. Abul...
A crisis over the relationship between President Donald Trump's aides and Russia deepened on Wednesday as a growing number of Trump's fellow Republicans demanded expanded congressional inquiries into...
President Akufo-Addo has told members of the diplomatic corps that his government would not seek handouts from other countries but require strong partnerships to ensure development. Speaking at a...
North Korean newlyweds, soldiers and children lined up to laud their country's rulers on Thursday, the birthday of the late Kim Jong-Il, father of both the current leader and the exiled renegade...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has said Ghana intends monetising its gas resources from the Jubilee, TEN, and Sankofa oil fields. “Our oil and gas deposits in the Jubilee, TEN and Sankofa fields offer...
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura called Thursday for greater efforts in the push for peace in Syria, as he visited Moscow ahead of a fresh round of talks in Geneva. De Mistura was in Russia for meetings...
President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday said Raqa is not a priority target for his forces, saying his goal is to retake "every inch" of Syrian territory. "Raqa is a symbol," Assad said in an interview...
A coffee shop that recently opened in California is serving customers more than just steamy cups of latte or espresso, offering an additional true life lesson about an issue roiling the country --...
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...
Ghana has called on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), not to be swayed by Ivory Coast’s argument in the ongoing maritime boundary dispute between the two countries, in its...
US President Donald Trump has dropped decades of US policy insisting on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At a news conference with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says his government would ramp up Ghana’s participation in activities of the West African sub-regional and continental bodies. He said Ghana would continue to...
