by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 16, 2017 | Middle East
Cairo – The African Union Commission (AUC) appointed on Saturday former Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa as the first Egyptian to become a member of the African Union Panel of the Wise. He has been appointed as a successor to Algerian diplomat Lakhdar...
by AlMunji alSaidani | Oct 1, 2017 | Middle East
Tunis– The unified committee entrusted with amending the Skhirat Agreement met with representatives of Libya’s various political parties on Saturday, for the fifth consecutive day, in the presence of UN Envoy Ghassan Salameh. While no concrete results were reached to...
by Ahmed Younis | May 30, 2017 | Middle East
Khartoum – Guinean President and Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Alpha Conde pledged to support Sudan in its efforts to achieve a complete lifting of US sanctions imposed on it. He also announced that a meeting for the Libyan rival parties would be held in the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 17, 2017 | World
Three Somali soldiers were killed in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday while attempting to defuse a car bomb, announced the police and militant al-Shabaab group. The bomb detonated as the military experts were trying to dismantle a car laden with explosives that...
by Hatim Betioui | Mar 16, 2017 | Interviews
Conakry (Guinea) – Guinean President Alpha Condé, whose country currently assumes the rotating presidency of the African Union, said problems facing the Dark Continent were mainly due to “foreign interference.” In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Condé...
