Famine has taken hold in five additional areas of war-torn Sudan, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) review said on Tuesday, predicting further spread in the Darfur region by May. A total of 638,000 people are now facing famine in three North Darfur refugee camps and in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan's south, the report said. In August the IPC had declared famine in the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur.
Libyan authorities have ordered the closure of offices of ten aid organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and the UN refugee
Lt. Col. Eli Dekel, a former intelligence officer specializing in Egyptian affairs, revealed in a Thursday interview with Marriv that
Algeria’s prosecutor has appealed the five-year prison sentence handed to Boualem Sansal, a French-Algerian writer convicted of undermining Algeria’
Italy will invest €20 million ($22 million) to support Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia in voluntary repatriation programs for irregular migrants,
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