A fuel shortage is blighting life in the swathes of Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, cutting electricity supplies, halting water pumps and stranding people in need of medical care as warring sides trade blame. Energy scarcity is nothing new in a country ravaged by years of conflict, but...

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...