A month-long oil shutdown in Libya looks set to end within days after rival political factions agreed to appoint a new central bank governor this week, while crude loadings looked to have resumed at a key export terminal. Naji Essa has been nominated to lead the key institution, which takes receipt of Libya's lifeblood oil revenues, on an interim basis, officials from Libya's eastern and western governments said at a signing ceremony organized by the UN mission in Libya, which brokered the talks.
A year after a flash flood ripped through Derna and killed thousands of people, the coastal Libyan city is hosting
Morocco is hosting a two-day retreat of the United Nations Human Rights Council, marking the first such event in the
Libya’s Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), Aqila Saleh, has cut the tax imposed on the banks'
Sudan's army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, rejected "any foreign interference" in the country's conflict
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