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Six hundred undocumented Egyptians to be deported from Libya

Libya has begun the deportation of 600 undocumented Egyptians who sneaked illegally into the oil-rich African country used as a launch-pad for crossing the Mediterranean for Europe. Mohamad Bardaa, deputy for security affairs at the Directorate of Combating Illegal Migration answering to the Tripoli-based government, told AFP that deportees had entered Libya illegally, Ahram Online […]

Algeria: Head of campaign team of presidential hopeful throws in towel

Retired General and candidate for the April presidential elections has lost the head of his campaign team, who accused the presidential hopeful of improvisation and ‘solo’ acting. Hmida Layachi, a journalist, announced on a facebook post that he was leaving his job as campaign chief of Ali Ghediri, a retired General and former director of […]

UN Security Council renews mandate for peace keeping mission in CAR

The UN Security Council extended Wednesday November 15 for a year the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) until Nov. 15, 2024. The extension came under resolution 2709, approved by 14 of the 15 Security Council members bar Russia which abstained. The resolution also decides that the peacekeeping mission, […]