A cargo plane hired by the UN food agency crashed in South Sudan’s capital on Saturday morning, killing seven people and injuring one more, the country’s transport minister said. Speaking to Anadolu Agency over the phone, Madut Yel Biar said five passengers and three crew were on...

Libya’s High Council of State on Saturday lauded Turkey and Qatar’s role in ending warlord Khalifa Haftar’s offensive on Tripoli and in western parts of the country. In a statement after Friday’s cease-fire call by the Government of National Accord (GNA) and the pro-Haftar...

The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has welcomed a ceasefire announcement in Libya, the UAE news agency WAM reported Saturday. GCC Secretary General Nayef Falah Mubarak al-Hajraf called on all parties "to adhere to [this] constructive step, to urgently engage in political...

More than 100 Ghanaians stranded in Tripoli have returned home on the first voluntary migrant repatriation flight from Libya since the coronavirus pandemic began, the UN migration agency said Friday. Most of the 118 passengers on the charter flight from the Libyan capital to Accra were male...