Forces loyal to Libya’s rebel General Khalifa Haftar have dispatched a warship to the oil port of Ras Lanuf for the first time and carried out airstrikes against the capital, Tripoli. Haftar has been waging a deadly campaign since April 4 to seize Tripoli from troops aligned to Libya’s ...
Sudan’s military rulers and protest leaders have agreed on the formation of a joint civilian-military council that would lead a transition from three decades of autocratic rule by Omar al-Bashir. “We agreed on a joint council between the civilian and the military,” one of the leaders of the protest ...