Lavrov’s African tour another front in struggle between west and Moscow
Analysis: Foreign minister seeks to win friends and influence people in countries where closeness can be traced back to USSR Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign...
Category : Middle East and North Africa
Tunisians vote in referendum on handing president almost total power
Critics of Kais Saied fear he will rip up democracy that emerged from 2011 revolution Tunisians have begun voting in a referendum on a new...
Libyan PM makes alliance with ex-enemy to cement ceasefire
Prospect of Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and Khalifa Haftar burying differences may be welcomed by UN Libya’s prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, has made an unexpected...
Sudan: scores of people killed in tribal clashes in Blue Nile state
Fighting between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups broke out last week over the killing of a farmer The death toll from days of tribal...
UN urged to move Cop27 from Egypt over ‘LGBTQ+ torture’
US adviser to the White House and partner call on UN to move climate crisis summit over fears they would be targeted A White House...
Sudan woman faces death by stoning for adultery in first case for a decade
Campaigners say sentence amounts to torture amid fears that country’s new regime is rolling back women’s rights A woman in Sudan has been sentenced to...
Famine: what is it, where will it strike and how should the world respond?
A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisis Global hunger toll soars...
Teenager saves baby from shipwreck during Mediterranean crossing
‘I went to help people,’ says Togolese boy, who was among 71 survivors rescued nine days after boat sank, killing at least 30 The actions...
Anger as families of US detainees in Middle East left off Blinken call
‘Infuriating’ exclusions made just weeks before Joe Biden’s Saudi visit and expected rapprochement with the crown prince Family members of several US nationals who are...
UN secretary general urges calm in Libya as protests spread
Tripoli sees biggest rallies in years on weekend of demonstrations over political deadlock and living conditions The UN secretary general, António Guterres, has appealed for...
