Egypt on Friday received the second Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Doc (LHD) warship from France, official news agency MENA reported. Egyptian Navy Commander Osama Rabie and Chief of the French Navy Admiral Christophe Prazuck attended a ceremony marking France’s handover of the warship to Egypt in the western French port of …

The UN Security Council on Wednesday urged South Sudan’s government to take immediate steps to allow a new regional force to deploy in Juba as it weighed imposing an arms embargo. Following a closed-door meeting, New Zealand Ambassador Gerard van Bohemen, who holds the council presidency, said it was time …

Libya’s internationally recognised parliament, which is based in the far east and effectively runs this part of the country, has promoted a powerful general. The gesture is likely to rile the UN-brokered government in the capital, Tripoli, which is not recognized by the east-based parliament.