Violent battles have erupted between armed groups in Yambio, the capital city of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, local Eye Radio reported Tuesday. The battles have broken out between government troops and a local armed group known as “arrow boys” which is allied to South Sudan’s major rebel group led …

Defence Ministers of the 5+5 Initiative were unanimous in arguing that a military option in Libya is not a solution to meet the security challenges in that country. Only a political solution is possible, they stressed at their meeting Thursday in Tunis. This consists in the formation of a single …

Warring Libyan factions meeting in Tunisia have reached an agreement on ending the political deadlock that has plagued the country since Muammar Gaddafi’s overthrow. “This is a historic moment the Libyans were waiting for, the Arabs were waiting for and the world was waiting for,” said Awad Mohammed Abdul-Sadiq, the …