Morocco, UN call on Libyan parties to respect elections schedule

The UN special envoy for Libya, Jan Kubis, and the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, have stressed again the need to respect the electoral process in Libya and the elections schedule set for December 24. After a meeting in Rabat on Monday sept.13, Bourita, and the UN Special Envoy for Libya and head […]

Algeria threatens Mali with ‘civil war’

Algeria has doubled down on violating the sovereignty of its neighbor Mali by addressing the Malian people directly, threatening them with “civil war,” in the latest episode of a diplomatic showdown that triggered Bamako to declare an Algeria-brokered peace deal null and void. In a statement, the Algerian foreign ministry failed to respond to the […]

Libya: US pulls out troops as fighting rages between GNA forces & rival LNA

US military command for Africa, AFRICOM, have temporally withdrawn US troops out of Libya amid deadly armed confrontation between militia forces aligned with UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) of east-based warlord Khalifa Haftar. The Libyan capital Tripoli has become since late last week the target of Haftar’s […]