Libya reports first community exposure to Omicron

The National Center for Disease Control has confirmed the country's first two cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus. In a statement Wednesday, the NCDC called on citizens to get vaccinated, avoid gatherings, and wear masks to…

Report: 3.1 million of Somalis will need food aid in 2022

Over 2,000 more internally displaced people have arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu in the last two days fleeing from the deadly drought battering the Horn of Africa country, the UN humanitarian cooperation agency said Wednesday.…

UK sets record for new daily Covid cases

Britain reported 183,037 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, setting a new record for daily infections.The new additions brought the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to over 12.5 million, while the death toll rose…

Samuel Eto’o accused by Spanish authorities of tax evasion

Tax authorities in Spain claim the newly elected President of the Cameroonian Football Federation, Samuel Eto’o owes nearly one million euros in taxes. According to them, the said amount was accumulated when Eto’o was playing his club…

Turkish FM: Erdoğan refuses to meet with Khalifa Haftar

Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that his country is working with the legitimate government in Libya and wants a comprehensive solution for the Libyan crisis. Cavusoglu told reporters at the Turkish Foreign Ministry HQ in…

Libya’s HoR seeks election delay by 6 months

Libya’s House of Representatives (parliament) has proposed postponing the presidential elections by six months.The assembly held a session in the city of Tobruk late Monday to discuss the polls, which were scheduled to take place on…

Abdelaziz Haouame is Algeria’s new Air Force chief

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has relieved the commander of the country's air defences, Major-General Amar Amrani, of his duties, appointing Major-General Abdelaziz Haouame in his place. The shake-up of the Territorial Air…