Algerian doctors and nurses say they have paid a heavy price in the country's coronavirus response and have warned of worse to come, urging respect and enforcement of hygiene rules. "We're working non-stop. We're totally exhausted. Some (medics) are dead, may they rest in peace, and several...

Libya's permanent representative to the UN said that his country "no longer accepts the UAE's presence in its political dialogues". This came during Taher al-Sunni's speech at the UN Security Council session on Libya, late Wednesday in New York. "The UAE is involved in supporting the...

 In Yemen's Taiz, cemetery supervisor Dabwan al-Makhlaafi had to hire mechanical diggers to keep up with demand for new graves at a cemetery originally built for fallen government fighters, as coronavirus spreads through the war-torn country. "Workers were not able to keep up with the...

In recent remarks, the UN's former Libya envoy denied any involvement of his mission in supporting an attack by renegade general Khalifa Haftar on the war-torn North African country's capital, accusing instead members of the UN Security Council of backing the campaign on Tripoli. UN...