In a shocking turn of events, Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Cissoko Embalo has announced he won’t be running for a second term. The 51-year-old leader dropped this bombshell after a cabinet meeting, catching everyone off guard. Embalo, who’s been in office since 2020, cited an unusual reason for bowing out – his wife talked him out […]
Paris and Tunis on Monday asked the parties in Libya to fulfill their commitments to restart negotiations under the United Nations aegis. “France and Tunisia together demand that the warring parties ceasefire and keep their commitment to resume negotiations within the United Nations framework to restore security for all, reunite Libyan institutions and start reconstruction […]
Mahmoud Jibril, a former Premier has died in Egypt where he hospitalized after he tested positive for covid-19 in March, reports say. Jibril’s party, National Forces Alliance, founded in 2012, announced his death Sunday. The 68-year old man led National Transitional Council, the de facto Libyan government during the months-long NATO-backed revolution that removed and […]
