Eurasia Press & News
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will visit Washington in April for talks with US President Donald Trump that will include the stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace process, his office said on Monday. A statement by the presidency said “the Palestinian issue will be discussed” with Trump during Sisi’s “visit to Washington early …
Read More »Egypt condemns recent Mali attacks
Egypt’s government condemned on Monday the militant attack that killed 12 soldiers earlier this week, which took place in a town in central Mali close to the border with Burkina Faso. Another five soldiers were injured in the attack.
Read More »Libya's PM to visit Sudan to discuss bilateral relations
Libyan prime minister is to start a two-day visit to Sudan on Wednesday to boost bilateral ties, said Sudan’s foreign minister in a statement on Tuesday. Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, is to meet Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Prime Minister Bakri Hassan …
Read More »Algerian FM meets NATO secretary General
The minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ramtane Lamamra held discussions Monday, with the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg at the headquarters of the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels. During this meeting, the two officials hailed the regularity of political consultations” …
Read More »Lamamra calls for “influential groups to fully fulfill” their role to settle crisis
The Algerian minister of State, minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ramtane Lamamra said Monday, in Brussels, that the responsibility of the international community towards Libya is “collective,” calling for all the “influential groups” to “fully” fulfill their role in favour of a peaceful settlement to the crisis.
Read More »Mubarak to be released from jail
An Egyptian prosecutor allowed on Monday for Hosni Mubarak to be released, his lawyer said, after an appeals court acquitted the ex-president of involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising. “He can go home now when the doctors decide he is able to,” Farid al-Deeb said, adding …
Read More »Forces loyal to Libyan general retake oil installations
A Libyan military spokesperson says hundreds of forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter have seized major oil facilities at Ras Lanuf and al-Sidra from Islamist-allied militias. Faisal al-Zwei, the spokesperson for the 101st Brigade, told The Associated Press that the assault started early on Tuesday and that the fighting …
Read More »UN expert warns of South Sudan 'population engineering'
A United Nations expert says South Sudan’s government has begun a campaign of “population engineering” to relocate people over their ethnicity as civil war continues under warnings of genocide. Yasmin Sooka on Tuesday told the UN Human Rights Council that a government redrawing of state borders has depopulated ethnic Shilluk …
Read More »Chad's Faki assumes African Union leadership
Chad’s former foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat assumed office as head of the African Union Commission on Tuesday, pledging to reform the institution and tackle the continent’s many crises. Faki takes over leadership of the 54-country continental bloc days after the United Nations announced that the food emergencies in four …
Read More »Western countries urge Libyan factions to end strife at oil terminals
Western ambassadors have called for calm in Libya following bloody clashes between rival factions at the oil terminals. The envoys from the US, UK and France urged Libya’s warring parties to recognise the authority of the Libyan National Oil Corporation and said that revenues must be channelled to the UN-backed …
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