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The United Nations, the European Union, the Arab League and the African Union on Tuesday demanded that all foreign forces and mercenaries leave Libya immediately, as the country seeks to restore order and go to the polls. In a statement following a video conference by its leaders, the so-called "Libya Quartet" demanded "full compliance with the arms embargo and the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all foreign forces and mercenaries from all of Libya's territory." The highly violated arms…

The Libyan government on Saturday welcomed a recent decision by the UN Security Council to deploy international teams to monitor the implementation of a ceasefire agreement signed in October last year in the conflict-torn country. The Interim Government of National Unity (GNU) called on the Council to help get mercenaries out of the oil-rich country, as it approaches the December elections after a decade of fighting and upheaval. The UN Security Council unanimously approved Secretary-General Antonio Guterre's recent…

The UN Security Council is voting on a draft resolution calling on all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave Libya and authorizing a small UN team to monitor last October's ceasefire order ordering their departure. The results of the e-mail vote on the proposed resolution - due to COVID-19 - are expected to be announced on Friday. The UK draft resolution would approve Secretary - General Antonio Guterre's proposal on the composition and operational aspects of ceasefire monitoring set out in a letter…

Every year, thousands of migrants make dangerous boat trips to war-torn Yemen, many with the aim of traveling overland to the Gulf countries in search of work. But recently, many migrants have called for it to stop, forcing a protracted and often dangerous flow out of the Horn of Africa at sea and then north through Yemen to the Gulf states for work. Their hopes for a better future have been thwarted by coronavirus restrictions and security conditions, leaving them in a country where millions are…

Nearly one million people are facing severe hunger in northern Mozambique, where hundreds of thousands have fled aggravated extremist violence, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said on Tuesday. Daesh-linked insurgents last month attacked Palma, a city in the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado next to major gas projects under development by companies including Total and Exxon. The World Food Program (WFP) said in a survey in Geneva that 950,000 people are now hungry in Mozambique. It appeals…

The UN warned Tanzania to accept asylum seekers fleeing Mozambique from terrorist attacks. UN law has received "worrying" reports that Tanzania has rejected more than 1,000 people seeking refuge from a Daesh-alleged attack on a city in northern Mozambique, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. The March 24 attack on the city of Palma, next to the gas development worth $ 60 billion, sent the city's residents scattered in all directions, and some fled into dense…

France faced increasing calls from rights groups on Thursday to launch an investigation into an airstrike by its forces in Mali that a UN investigation said killed 19 civilians at a wedding party. UN investigators released a report on Tuesday on the January 3 strike, concluding that it had killed 19 civilians and three gunmen near the central Mali village of Bounti. France, which has more than 5,000 troops in Mali and neighboring West African countries to fight militants linked to al-Qaeda and Daesh,…

UN experts said they had received and continue to receive reports of "serious violations of human rights" by Russian mercenaries in the Central African Republic (CAR), where they have supported the militant government's military. "The experts have received, and continue to receive, reports of serious human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law, which can be attributed to the private military personnel working with CAR's armed forces and in some cases to the UN. peacekeepers,…

At least 19 civilians were killed in a French airstrike in central Mali in January, according to a UN report on Tuesday by Agence France-Presse (AFP), which added that the victims were protected under international law. On January 3, French warplanes crashed near the remote village of Bounti in circumstances that sparked controversy in the war-torn Sahel state. Residents of the village said the strike hit a wedding party and killed civilians. But the French military denied the allegations, saying it…

The UN and an Ethiopian rights agency said on Thursday that they had agreed to conduct a joint investigation into abuses in the fought Tigray region, where fighting continues as government troops chase the region's fleeing leaders. An investigation of all parties to the conflict is "part of the much-needed responsibility process" for the victims of the conflict, the government-established Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement. "With several…