Eurasia Press & News

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 …

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” …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Dr. Abdelmoneim Zeineddine, spokesman and coordinator of the Syrian Revolution Command Council, said that “on the ground, there is no ceasefire” and that “all this is an illusion and a fantasy.” Zeineddine, speaking on Halab Today TV on February 15, said that he foresaw “further escalation” and that “it is …

On March 9, 2017, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, reported that the previous day, Lebanese General Security forces raided nine money transfer offices in Beirut, which were suspected of transferring huge sums of money to ISIS fighters. According to the report, some of the offices had removed money from the premises …

On March 6, 2017, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released an audio statement featuring the group’s leader Qasim Al-Rimi eulogizing the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar ‘Abd Al-Rahman, who died February 18, 2017 in a U.S. prison. In the statement, which was posted on AQAP’s official Telegram channel, Al-Rimi accused the …