The Arab coalition Friday said it was extending a unilateral ceasefire in Yemen by one month to support efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, citing a coalition spokesman. A two-week ceasefire announced by the coalition that is...

Libya is turning into "an experimental field for all kinds of new weapons systems", the United Nations' acting special envoy said, with foreign supporters of its warring parties shipping in arms and fighters in violation of an embargo. Libya's conflict escalated sharply this month, with...

Egypt will keep a night-time curfew for the holy Muslim month of Ramadan to combat the coronavirus spread but allow one extra hour of movement, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said Thursday. The curfew will start at 9 p.m. instead of the previous 8 p.m. and run until 6 a.m., he told a...

A two-week ceasefire in Yemen announced by a Saudi-led military coalition expired Thursday without leading to a permanent truce, raising fears that the country's war will grind on and shatter its already weakened ability to combat coronavirus. The latest Yemen peace push follows U.N....

Eight people, including five children, have been killed and dozens injured in flash floods in Yemen's second city Aden, officials said Wednesday, as residents faced submerged streets and destroyed homes. The deaths take the national toll to at least 15 after the United Nations said that...

A group of multinational companies said Wednesday it was donating tens of thousands of coronavirus testing kits and medical equipment to Yemen, where a five-year war has destroyed the health system and left millions vulnerable to disease. Yemen, which has very limited testing capabilities,...

Sixty-eight people, mostly staff, have come down with the coronavirus at a prison in the southern Moroccan city of Ouarzazate, prison authorities said on Tuesday, without reporting any deaths. Earlier this month Morocco released 5,645 prisoners - some of them in poor health - to help reduce...

Russia on Tuesday urged the European Union to get UN Security Council approval for its military operation to enforce the arms embargo on Libya. The EU's unwillingness to brief the UN on the details of the operation “raises questions,” said Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking via video...

At least seven people have been killed and 85 injured in flash flooding in Yemen this month, the U.N. said Tuesday, as the coronavirus threat also looms over the war-torn nation. Yemen announced its first case of COVID-19 on April 10, and aid organisations have warned that its health system...

The United States is preparing a "substantial contribution" to help Yemen combat the coronavirus, but it may have to find alternatives to the World Health Organization (WHO) to spend it, a senior U.S. official told Reuters, days after President Donald Trump slammed the U.N. agency's handling of...

Yemen’s rebels Sunday detained a former culture minister and writer who was a vocal critic of their rule, his family and lawyer said. The rebels, known as Houthis, stormed Khalid al-Rwaishan’s home in a suburb of the capital Sanaa at dawn, seizing personal papers and documents. Al-Rwaishan...

Libya's internationally-recognised government has said its forces have killed eight fighters loyal to eastern-based renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar.  The announcement by military spokesman Mohamed Gnunu on Saturday came as forces aligned with the United...

The U.N. Security Council Friday endorsed the secretary-general’s call for the warring parties in Yemen to immediately stop fighting and focus on reaching a peace agreement and countering the outbreak of the new coronavirus. In its first statement on recent developments in Yemen, the U.N.’s...

 Inmates at 30 Algerian prisons are being mobilised to make personal protective equipment to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, official news agency APS reported. Authorities will "open sewing workshops for the production of 200,000 masks by prisoners in 30 penitentiaries... to...

Libyans rushed on Thursday to stock up on food for the holy Muslim month of Ramadan before a curfew starts in the capital Tripoli and other western areas aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. The oil producing country, in chaos since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, has...

United Nations Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths said on Thursday he expects the warring parties to formally adopt “in the immediate future” agreements on a nationwide ceasefire, key economic and humanitarian measures and a resumption of political talks. Yemen has been mired in conflict since...

A woman and a child were killed and another five children were wounded by artillery shelling in Tripoli from eastern forces seeking to capture the capital from the U.N.-backed government there, a Libyan official said Thursday. Libya has been divided between two rival governments since 2015,...

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’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 be...

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...