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Sahara: MINURSO’s new mandate to be extended by one year instead of six months

The mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, will be extended by one year at the expiry of the current mandate this October 31 instead of six months. The one-year extension was proposed by the US and France. UN Security Council broke with its tradition of renewing the UN peacekeeping mission by one […]

CAF Strips Esperance Tunis of Champions League Trophy, Decides a Rematch

The emergency executive committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), convened Wednesday in Paris following the chaotic return match of the African Champions League between WAC of Casablanca and Esperance Tunis (EST), decided to withdraw the trophy to the Tunisian club and to replay the return match on neutral ground just after the African […]

Libya: GNA welcomes armored vehicles shipment from Turkey

he UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) unloaded Saturday a dozen of armored military vehicles, shipped from Turkey in what appears as Ankara’s support for the GNA counter-operation to keep at bay forces of east-based military commander Khalifa Haftar who seek to overtake the Libyan capital. Military media South Front, citing sources from Tripoli, reports […]