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Sudan police fire teargas at Bashir supporters: witnesses

Sudanese police fired teargas Thursday at backers of ousted president Omar al-Bashir who demonstrated outside the army command's headquarters in Khartoum, demanding the fall of the transitional government, witnesses said. The protesters -- who lambasted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's...

Libya to impose 10-day curfew to combat COVID-19

Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has declared a 10-day curfew starting Friday to fight the novel coronavirus.   At a press conference Wednesday in the capital Tripoli, the Supreme Committee for Combating COVID-19 said all vegetable and meat markets will...

Yemen's war rages under shadow of looming virus threat

Yemen's war shows no signs of abating, one week after the Saudi-led military coalition declared a unilateral truce due to the coronavirus threat looming over the impoverished nation. Yemen announced its first case of the COVID-19 respiratory disease last Friday, as aid organisations warn...

Libya’s Sarraj: Won’t negotiate with Haftar again

The head of Libya’s UN-recognized government said he won’t resume negotiations with warlord Khalifa Haftar, accusing him of exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to launch a new offensive against the government. In an interview with Italian daily La Repubblica published on Wednesday, Fayez...