London, Jan. 17, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Greece will block any European peace deal on Libya unless an agreement between the internationally-recognized government in Tripoli and Turkey on maritime borders is scrapped, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned Thursday. Mitsotakis’ comments during a TV interview came a day before his scheduled talks with Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter, whose ...

London, August 1, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi and Ossufo Momade, leader of the Renamo opposition, signed a peace accord Thursday ending years of hostilities that followed a 15-year civil war. The signing took place at Renamo’s remote military base in the Gorongosa mountains in central Mozambique, 27 years after the end of the country’s ...

London, July 10, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The U.N. Security Council has added five Malians to the U.N. sanctions blacklist for obstructing implementation of a 2015 peace deal. The three parties to the 2015 agreement were the government, a pro-government militia known as the Platform, and a coalition of groups called the Coordination of Movements of Azawad, which ...

London, Feb. 6, 2019 (AltAfrica)-South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar is planning to return to the country in May under a power-sharing deal struck with President Salva Kiir in September last year. Machar has been in exile in Khartoum having spent more than a year in South Africa, where he went to seek medical treatment. ...

London, Jan. 23, 2019 (AltAfrica)-South Sudan on Wednesday called on the international community to fund efforts to implement a peace deal, which is already four months behind schedule due to paucity of fund In an address to diplomats, deputy foreign minister Deng Dau Deng said the money was needed to move warring forces into cantonment ...

London, Dec. 21, 2018 (AltAfrica)-The United Nations Security Council on Thursday implemented its first individual sanctions against three Malians linked to armed groups and accused of violating a 2015 peace agreement, according to diplomatic sources. The council slapped travel bans on Mohamed Ousmane Ag Mohamedoune, secretary general of the Coalition for the People of Azawad, ...

Addis Ababa, September 13, 2018 (AltAfrica)-South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir signed a peace agreement with rebel factions in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday to end a civil war that has killed at least 50,000 people, displaced two million and held up the country’s progress since it gained independence seven years ago.South Sudan plunged into warfare ...