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General Khalifa Hafter has ordered Libyan National Army troops under his command to make a final push on Tripoli and end the 8-month military stalemate to seize control of the capital from forces loyal to the internationally-backed National Accord Government.
A week after they kicked off a crippling strike that saw 200 South African Airways (SAA) flights grounded worldwide, the airline announced on Friday that it had agreed with its striking workers to resume work on Saturday.
The ECOWAS Parliament on Wednesday called on the Nigeria government to reopen the closed borders because the action was a violation of ECOWAS Protocol on free movement within the region.
At least seven people have been confirmed killed in an airstrike by suspected forces loyal to Khalifa Hafter on a biscuit factory in the Wadi Rabea district of the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday.
The UN Security Council has extended the mandate of UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) until 15 May 2020, specifying “measurable progress” in border issues needed from Sudan and South Sudan before that date.
The Interior ministry in the Libyan capital Tripoli Thursday morning came under attack by warplanes believed to belong to forces loyal to warlord Halifa Hafter, leaving several people wounded.
Despite the death of the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State (Daesh) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, killed last weekend in an American raid in Idleb province (Syria), the jihadist ideology is still attractive, said journalist and jihadist movement specialist, Wassim Nasr.
The military court in Kigali on Monday remanded 25 fighters who were arrested recently during military operations in Eastern DR Congo before being handed over to Rwanda.
At least two more children have died in Tripoli on a day of heavy shelling in the Libyan capital, a week after three others belonging to the same family died in an airstrike blamed on Khalifa Hafter’s forces.
Tripoli’s just under two million residents used to fondly refer to their city as the bridal pearl of the Mediterranean Sea, thanks to its cultured serenity and quiet, a metaphor which they still nostalgically cling on to.