CAIRO: Sudan’s former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi Saturday slammed an announcement by President Donald Trump that Sudan would start normalizing ties with Israel. Al-Mahdi, who is the country's last democratically elected premier and heads the country's largest political party, said he...

The UN special envoy on Libya on Friday announced the signing of a cease-fire agreement between the delegations of both main warring parties in Libya.  Stephanie Turcos Williams, who heads the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), said the Libyan parties reached an agreement for a...

A leading international human rights group Thursday condemned Egypt's execution of 49 people so far this month - some arrested during a deadly crackdown on a mass protest in 2013 - and urged authorities in Cairo to grant fair retrials to those on the death row. Between Oct. 3 and 13, Egypt...

The military track of the intra-Libyan negotiations with both main warring parties has decided to open land and air routes that connect all regions and cities in Libya, the acting UN special envoy in the war-torn country said Wednesday. Stephanie Turcos Williams addressed journalists at a...