Libya

Just In: Newly Re- elected Chad’s President Deby Dies After Fighting Rebels

Chad’s newly re-elected President Idriss Deby Itno has died of injuries while fighting rebels in the north of the Sahel…

3 years ago

Libyan militant, Mustafa Al-Imam sentenced to 19 years for terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi

A Libyan militant, Mustafa Al-Imam was sentenced on Thursday to more than 19 years in prison by  a federal Judge…

5 years ago

UN Libya Mission strongly condemns bombing of military academy, at least 30 dead

Saturday’s bombing reportedly took place as cadets were gathering on a parade ground at the Hadaba academy in a southern…

5 years ago

Continued airstrikes in western Libya ‘utterly unacceptable’, says UN mission chief

Ghassan Salamé, head of the UN Support Mission in the country, UNSMIL, called for greater civilian protection following the incidents, which…

5 years ago

Drying Lake Chad Basin gives rise to crisis

Twenty-year-old Phoebe Musa remembers the day Boko Haram militants stormed her village of Gwoza in Borno State, northeast Nigeria, five…

5 years ago

Theatre Helps Raise Awareness on Human Trafficking in Most Affected Regions in Nigeria

The city of Benin in southern Nigeria was once the capital of the former Edo Kingdom of Benin, one of…

5 years ago

Bold vision promises new dawn for Nigeria’s ailing petrochemical industry

Estimated to hold 37 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, Nigeria is the second biggest oil-rich country in Africa, after…

5 years ago

Libya on verge of civil war, threatening ‘permanent division’

The damage done to Libya will already take “years to mend” but unless fighting around the capital Tripoli stops, the…

5 years ago

Detained refugees in Libya moved to safety in second UNHCR relocation

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today relocated another 150 refugees who were detained in the Abu Selim detention centre in…

5 years ago

UI @70: Abike Dabiri warns youths against illegal migration

THE task of curbing slave trade and illegal migration can not be left in the hands of government alone but…

6 years ago