
Libya's Rival Governments Commit to a Ceasefire
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
UN-backed government in Libya asks for Italian naval support to tackle human trafficking in Libyan territorial waters.
Plus, an eyewitness account of what it's like living as a woman under IS rule and Benin's brainy eleven year old who's passed his high school leaver exams. How did he do it?
(Photo: (From L) Ghassan Salame, Special Representative to the Secretary General of the United Nations for Libya, French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, French President Emmanuel Macron, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and General Khalifa Haftar, commander in the Libyan National Army (LNA) give a press conference after talks aimed at easing tensions in Libya, in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, near Paris, on July 25, 2017. Credit: JACQUES DEMARTHON /AFP/ Getty Images)
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