Palestinian ambassador in Cairo, Barakat Al-Farra, said on Wednesday that the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza will be opened for three days starting Saturday. Al-Farra, who has been recently engaged in negotiations with Egyptian authorities over the crossing, stressed that “only students, and

Kenya’s president said on Tuesday that his forces had “defeated” Islamists from Somalia’s Al Shabaab, had shot five of them dead and detained 11 others suspected of killing 67 people after storming a Nairobi shopping mall. It remained unclear after Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the nation on television whether the four-day …

Thousands of people in Libya remain locked up in militia prisons, outside of state control, more than two years after the revolution, according to a new UN report presented to the Security Council. The report says many are suffering torture and mistreatment and calls the situation “unacceptable”. “We have a …