UN envoy for Libya Stephanie Williams briefing Security Council

U.S. ‘deeply concerned’ over multiple arrests in Tunisia

The United States is “deeply concerned” about the arrests of politicians, business leaders and journalists reported in recent days in Tunisia, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said Wednesday. “We are deeply concerned by the reported arrests of multiple political figures, business leaders, and journalists in Tunisia in recent days,” Ned Price said in opening […]

EU grants Tunisia 10m euros to curb illegal migration activities

The European Union Monday allocated Tunisia 10 million euros to help stem illegal migration activities from its coasts. The bloc’s commissioner for home affairs and internal security, Ylva Johansson, announced the assistance, which will be used to fight traffickers who control the illegal migration activities on the shores of the North African country. Over 4,100 […]

Egypt: PM Ismail’s government sworn in, more old faces than new

A new Egyptian government led by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, the petroleum minister in the former government, was sworn in on Saturday. The new cabinet features almost half of the ministers that were in Mahlab’s government. The government is expected to be short-lived because a new government would be announced before the end of the […]