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According to a defense official, the drone strike in the desert of central Libya Friday killed "several" ISIS militants in a sign the Pentagon may be ramping up pressure on terror groups in Africa, it added.The most…

The Libyan national football team has topped group 3 of the CHAN that will be held in Morocco in January 2018.Nigeria, Rwanda and Guinea were the other three teams in the same group.According to the CHAN organisers, the first…

A delegation from Libya's Tobruk-based House of Representatives has visited Ankara and expressed their intention for close cooperation with Turkey. The delegation met with officials from the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Parliament and the…

Libyan authorities have launched a formal investigation into slave auctions in the country following an exclusive CNN report earlier this week, the government said Friday."A high-level committee has been convened encompassing…

The U.N. delegate for Libya says he is confident that competing parliaments in the north African country "are close to a consensus" on a framework to end the crisis.Ghassan Salame told the Security Council Thursday that the U.N. has…

Italy has defended its policy on blocking migrants in Libya, saying the deal, denounced as "inhumane" by the UN, was essential to stop boat departures towards Europe."The alternative cannot be to resign ourselves to the impossibility of…

The leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, Mohamed Badie, lost his appeal on Wednesday against a life sentence for his role in violent clashes during political turmoil in 2013, judicial sources said.The judgment by the court of…

Zimbabwe’s military seized power on Wednesday saying it was holding President Robert Mugabe and his family safe while targeting “criminals” in the entourage of the man who has ruled the nation since independence 37 years ago.Soldiers…

 The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Al-Seddiq Al-Kabir, has revealed a group of reforms to save the "terrible economic" conditions in Libya. In a presser on Tuesday, the CBL's governor said…

Malta's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carmelo Abela, said that the Embassy of Malta to Libya will soon return to the capital Tripoli and that a new Maltese Ambassador to Libya will be appointed.Abela made…