Acute food insecurity is forecast to rise sharply in war-ravaged Yemen over a combination of factors exacerbated by the coronavirus, a report by several UN agencies said Wednesday. The report, which covers only the southern parts of Yemen, forecasts that the number of people "facing high...

Those seeking a military solution in Libya will be frustrated, as only a political solution will work, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Tuesday in the West African country of Niger. "The only solution in Libya is a political solution. We've been saying the same thing since the...

 Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and US President Donald Trump agreed Monday on the need to maintain a ceasefire in Libya and avoid an escalation between the forces fighting there, Egypt's presidency said. Sisi and Trump spoke by telephone as Egypt's parliament went into a...

Sudan's former autocratic president Omar al-Bashir, ousted amid a popular pro-democracy uprising last year, faces trial from Tuesday over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago. Bashir, 76, who is already behind bars for corruption, could face the death...