The United Nations Security Council has called for the withdrawal of all foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya “without further delay” in a unanimously approved declaration.
Nigerian security forces stepped up efforts Saturday to rescue dozens of abducted college students, police and officials said, as the media ran videos they said showed hostages pleading for help.
The Kaduna State Commissioner for International Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said in a statement that the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization was attacked on Thursday night.
Equatorial Guinea on Friday held a funeral ceremony for those who perished in the explosions at a military camp at the country’s economic hub of Bata on March 7th.
Security forces in Libya have freed 120 people believed to be migrants who were held captive and tortured by human traffickers in the northwestern town of Bani Walid, the army said.
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli is in good health and working normally, one of his diplomats has told a broadcaster in Namibia, countering reports he had been flown to hospital in Kenya and then India in a critical condition with COVID-19.