Algerian Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel said on Tuesday that Algeria hopes the Libyan parties will sign an agreement acceptable by all “as soon as possible” in order to allow Libya enter a new era. “We hope that the Libyan parties will sign as soon as possible …

The United Nations refugee agency urged Kenya on Tuesday to reconsider an order to close the teeming Dadaab refugee camp, warning that sending Somali refugees back to their homeland would have “extreme humanitarian and practical consequences”.

Russia and Ukraine have agreed to call for the pullback of smaller caliber weapons from the front lines in eastern Ukraine as part of a fresh push to end the region’s yearlong conflict. Foreign ministers from the two countries meeting with their French and German counterparts in Berlin also agreed …