The United Nations expects eastern Libyan tribal leaders to submit by Thursday their list of conditions to reopen blocked oil terminals, UN envoy Ghassan Salame said. Libya’s oil production had dropped sharply since groups loyal to eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar began a blockade on...

 Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday pardoned more than 6,000 prisoners, extending a process of clemency that has outdone in scale similar conciliatory gestures by his predecessors. Tebboune, elected in December in a vote rejected by a mass protest movement seeking the...

The world’s biggest humanitarian aid operation will be scaled-down next month in Houthi-controled Yemen, because donors and aid workers say they can no longer ensure that food for millions of people is reaching those who need it. Humanitarian sector sources told Reuters Houthi authorities...

After 10 months of fighting that has torn their country apart, exhausted Libyans voice deep fears and say their fate is no longer in their own hands. The oil-rich North African country has been mired in chaos since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising that killed longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi,...

Sudan's cabinet said Thursday that the country's leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had made no promise to Israel's prime minister of "normalising ties" between the two countries. Burhan, who heads Sudan's ruling sovereign council, met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for...

Senior members of the Iranian military and Lebanese Hezbollah were killed in clashes with the Yemeni army while supporting Houthi rebels, Yemen's information minister said Wednesday. "Houthi militias are still dragging its affiliates into battles, giving an illusion of victory to their...

Human rights groups called Wednesday for the release of at least 10 Moroccan citizens arrested and prosecuted over the past five months who "did nothing but peacefully express critical opinions". Those arrested include students, artists, citizen journalists and social media commentators,...

Sudan's military said Wednesday it backed a surprise meeting between the country's leader and Israel's prime minister in Uganda this week, saying the opening would help boost national security. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chairman of Sudan's ruling sovereign council, met Israeli Prime...

Forces loyal to renegade commander Khalifa Haftar killed at least three civilians, including two children, the UN-recognized government in Libya said Wednesday. Haftar’s militia targeted residential areas in southern Tripoli, according to forces loyal to Libya’s Government of National...

Representatives of the warring parties in Libya meeting in Geneva have agreed on the principle of turning their shaky truce into a lasting ceasefire, the U.N.'s Libya envoy said Tuesday. "The principle has been adopted from the first session. Now the question is what are the conditions,"...

Military officers from rival factions in Libya's conflict began U.N.-led talks in Geneva on Monday aimed at securing a ceasefire after 10 months of fighting on the outskirts of the capital, Tripoli. The so-called "Libyan Joint Military Commission" includes five senior officers from eastern...

Armed men attacked a gas pipeline in the north of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula late on Sunday, security sources and witnesses said, but imports of gas through North Sinai from Israel were unaffected. Egyptian security forces have been battling an Islamist insurgency that is concentrated in North...

Flights carrying patients in need of urgent medical attention will begin Monday to fly from the Yemeni capital Sanaa, aid and diplomatic sources said, a long-sought confidence-building measure in diplomatic efforts to end the five-year war. The United Nations and World Health Organization...

The United States on Sunday invited General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan’s sovereign council, to visit Washington, the council said, highlighting warmer bilateral ties since the army toppled President Omar al-Bashir last year. U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who invited Burhan...

After years of back-breaking toil, Fatima el Hanani now fears being reduced to begging in the street because of Morocco's closure of its border with a Spanish enclave to thousands of "mule women". The impact has been felt on both sides of the frontier, with the Moroccan porters who lugged...

The Arab League Saturday rejected US President Donald Trump's controversial Middle East plan, calling it "unfair" to Palestinians. The pan-Arab bloc said in a statement that it "rejects the US-Israeli 'deal of the century' considering that it does not meet the minimum rights and...

The United Nations said Thursday it was suspending its operations at a refugee reception centre in Tripoli over safety fears as the conflict in the war-ravaged country worsens. The UN refugee agency's chief of mission in Libya, Jean-Paul Cavalieri said the decision had been taken after the...

While uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East have been quelled by deadly force, Algerian authorities are on the way to becalming a powerful protest movement without a shot fired - at least for now. Thousands still march, but protests are smaller than those that toppled the...

French President Emmanuel Macron accused his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan of failing "to keep his word", given with other world leaders, to end foreign meddling in Libya. "We have seen in recent days Turkish ships accompanying Syrian mercenaries arriving on Libyan soil," Macron...

Sudan suspects that two of its citizens who returned to the country from China are infected with the new coronavirus, the information minister told Reuters. One of the pair, a man and a woman, had been in the region of the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus, Said Faisal...