Newly-installed United Nations Libya envoy Ghassan Salame was in Cairo on Monday for the latest round of high-level discussions with the Egyptian leadership on resolving the Libyan crisis. Mr Salame, a former Lebanese political sciences professor based in Paris, joins a long line of previous successors hoping to stem the …

With the crises in Mali and the Central African Republic worsening, the EU has released fresh humanitarian funding of €9 million to respond to the most pressing needs. This brings the EU’s overall humanitarian support to West and Central Africa in 2017 to nearly €254 million since the beginning of …

The US military says it has killed seven al-Shabaab fighters in a series of airstrikes in Somalia as the Trump administration steps up efforts against the deadliest Islamic extremist group in Africa.