Yemen's internationally-recognised government announced Tuesday nine new coronavirus cases and one death, raising total infections to 21 and three deaths, the country's supreme national emergency committee said on Twitter. Eight cases were detected in the southern port city of Aden and...

The International Crisis Group said this week that Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar’s regional backers should press him to reconsider his decision to replace UN-backed mediation in Libya with a new political roadmap and government.    The Brussels-based think tank evaluated the...

Residents of the southern Libyan town of Awbari on Monday requested a government security force to wrest control of the surrounding area from the forces of renegade general Khalifa Haftar.  Locals called on the presidential council of the government to "form a security force to...

Sudan has appointed its first ambassador to the United States for almost a quarter of a century, its foreign ministry said Monday, in a move to normalise relations after decades of antagonism. Both countries pledged to improve ties after the fall of veteran Islamist ruler Omar al-Bashir to...