North Africa

The UN's performing Libyan envoy expects that future political talks within the war-torn nation will set a date for nationwide elections, she advised Reuters on Tuesday, after a ceasefire was agreed final week. "What's reasoning is a transparent and direct need that there ought to be elections inside as quick a time-frame as attainable," says Stephanie Williams. Libya has been divided since 2014 between factions based mostly within the capital Tripoli, within the west and within the metropolis of…

Negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on the disputed dam that Ethiopia is constructing on the Nile will resume on Tuesday, in accordance with the President of the African Union, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Talks on the replenishment and operation of the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam broke off seven weeks in the past and can resume after the African Union held intensive consultations with the three international locations, in accordance with a press release from Ramaphosa on…

Libya's Nationwide Oil Company (NOC) mentioned on Monday that it lifted the final remaining power majeure at an oil rig within the war-torn nation, three days after rival factions struck a ceasefire settlement. The state-run NOC mentioned in an announcement on Fb that it defined "the top of the blockades in your entire Libyan subject and can find yourself as of immediately." "Directions have been given to the operator, Mellitah Oil & Fuel BV, to renew manufacturing within the Al-Really feel oil…

In Sudan, the President of the Sovereign Council, the Transitional Body, spoke for the first time on the Israeli issue. On national television, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan praised this rapprochement and the benefits that the country would benefit from it. With our regional correspondent For Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, rapprochement with Israel was necessary and had to happen now. "The economic situation does not allow us to wait another year," said Lieutenant General. The rapprochement with the Hebrew state and the impending…

A few days after the Geneva agreement on a permanent and immediate ceasefire in Libya, the UN Support Mission in Libya (Manul) announces the launch at video conference on Monday 26 October of a meeting to bring together 75 Libyan personalities to advance the Libyan political process and prepare for it. meeting scheduled for 9 November in Tunis. However, the list of participants is already divided.…

The everlasting ceasefire settlement reached in Geneva between rival Libyan events won't have an effect on army offers with Turkey and cooperation with Ankara will proceed, Libya's protection minister mentioned late Sunday. Concerning the ceasefire settlement signed beneath the auspices of the United Nations Help Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) between delegations representing the reliable Libyan authorities and Putin Common Khalifa Haftar, Libyan Protection Minister Salaheddin al-Namroush mentioned: "The…

Dozens of Tunisian artists and intellectuals have signed a petition calling on the country's judiciary to prosecute a lawmaker who justified the gruesome killing of a French teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamist radical. Signatories to the petition accused Tunisian lawmaker Rached Khiari of "condensing terrorism" in a social media…

The normalization of the connection between Sudan and Israel is slowly progressing and dividing Sudanese society. On Sunday, Khartoum introduced forthcoming talks between Sudanese and Israelis with a view to reaching a broad settlement laying the foundations for his or her future cooperation. However Sudan, whose financial system is failing, wants assist in return.…

A number of demonstrations befell on Sunday, October 25, in western Libya to protest in opposition to Emmanuel Macron's phrases defending the publication of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The chance for the authorities in Tripoli, near Turkey, to resume their mistrust of France, accused of supporting the rival authority within the east and extra particularly Marshal Khalifa Haftar.…

In Tunisia, civil society figures condemn the words of an Islamist deputy who justified the assassination in France of history professor Samuel Paty. Coming from academia, research, or the art world, about forty of them have signed an unequivocal petition to condemn dumb remarks and demand justice. The signatories, primarily from progressive and modernist academia, find it scandalous that a member of the nation can afford to justify death by beheading of French teacher, reports our correspondent in Tunis, Michel Picard.…