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Libya's rival sides launched a UN-mediated exchange of prisoners, UN and Libyan officials said on Saturday, as part of a preliminary ceasefire agreement between the fighting Libyan groups. The exchange of the first batch of prisoners, overseen by a joint military committee, took place on Friday in the southwestern village of al-Shwayrif, according to the UN support mission in Libya (UNSMIL). Libya is divided between a UN-backed National Accounts Government (GNA) in the capital Tripoli and rival…

Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5, 2021, the National Electoral Commission said on Friday, after the votes scheduled for 2020 were delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The aborted election was a factor that led to tensions between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the opposite northern Tigray region, which eventually saw him send federal troops there in a military offensive in November that left thousands dead and created tens of thousands of refugees. The election in Ethiopia, Africa's second most…

The Libyan authorities rejects any try to put the Tripoli invaders and defenders on equal phrases, Libyan Protection Minister Salahaddin Namroush mentioned on Wednesday as variations and disagreements plague the UN-led political course of aimed toward ending the chaos within the oil-rich North African nation. "We assist each dialogue aimed toward lasting peace in Libya and for its folks to get pleasure from safety and security, however on the identical time we reject any try and make the aggressors and…

US President Donald Trump, who apparently by no means realized the seriousness of the presidency's obligations throughout his four-year time period, takes his final breath earlier than handing over the keys to the White Home to President-elect Joe Biden. With lower than a month left in workplace, Trump is in a rush to satisfy his one-sided plan for the Center East with numerous diplomatic stimuli to convey Israel and the Arab states collectively. Shortly after the White Home introduced an settlement,…

The civil warfare between the Ethiopian authorities and the Tigray forces has despatched 25,000 terrified and ravenous Ethiopian refugees fleeing to Sudan, amid issues over an rising humanitarian disaster. Among the many hundreds of individuals fleeing the five-week-old battle in Ethiopia's Tigray area are dozens of males, ladies and youngsters from Eritrea, one of many world's most authoritarian states. They already lived as refugees in Tigray, which had lengthy been a secure haven for them throughout…

Greater than 17 million persons are eligible to vote in Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections on Monday with the competition for the perfect job anticipated to be a detailed battle between incumbent Nana Akufo-Addo and longtime opponent John Mahama. Nestled alongside the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana - lengthy a beacon for democracy and stability in West Africa - has ensured peaceable transfers of energy on seven events since returning to democracy nearly 30 years in the past. The 2 main events have…

Libya's ceasefire has been held since it was reached in October, and rival parties continue talks at the negotiating table, but the road to a permanent political solution that will end the nearly decade-long civil war and bring peace to the country still hangs in the balance due to deep divisions over a transition leader. The UN has "succeeded in accelerating the pace of inter-Libyan negotiations by exerting pressure on all parties, as much at the military level as the political level," Miloud el-Hajj,…

The UN says meals has now run out of practically 100,000 Eritrean refugees who've taken refuge in camps in Ethiopia's northern Tigray area, which has been lower off from the world for nearly a month throughout preventing. "Considerations are rising by the hour," UN refugee spokesman Babar Baloch informed reporters in Geneva on Tuesday. "The camps will now run out of meals - making starvation and malnutrition an actual hazard, a warning we have now issued for the reason that battle. began virtually a…

The Ethiopian authorities launched a search on Sunday for leaders of the northern area of Tigray after asserting that federal troops had taken over the regional capital Mekelle and army operations have been full.

Militants have killed at the least 40 individuals on a farm within the state of Borno in northeastern Nigeria, three sources advised Reuters on Saturday. The assault on Kwashebe Zamarmari within the Jere municipality space occurred late within the morning native time when the employees have been harvesting rice, in response to a village chief, an area fighter with the Zamarmari group and a police supply. The authorities' seek for the attackers has begun. The navy and police didn't instantly reply to…