Patrick Markey

Libya declares oil crisis over after state reclaims ports

August 25, 2021 at 6:08 a.m.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's acting Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said the government had reached a deal with a rebel leader controlling oil ports to hand over the last two terminals...

Chaos over premier’s post as Libya slides into uncertainty

August 25, 2021 at 5:17 a.m.

By Patrick Markey and Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya stumbled deeper into chaos on Thursday uncertain over who runs the country after rival prime ministers both claimed legitimacy in...

Renegade ex-general steps into Libya’s militia fray

November 4, 2021 at 1:47 a.m.

ALGIERS/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - When a dispute erupted over dissolving Libya's parliament last February, a former general dressed in full army uniform made a surprise television broadcast calling on the military...

Renegade ex-general steps into Libya’s militia fray

December 23, 2018 at 11:53 p.m.

With rare speech, Algeria’s ailing Bouteflika starts new term

August 25, 2021 at 4:24 a.m.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was sworn in for a fourth term on Monday after he easily won an election opponents dismissed as rigged to return the ailing...

Algeria’s ailing Bouteflika wins re-election

August 25, 2021 at 4:05 a.m.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the independence veteran in power for 15 years, won re-election on Friday with more than 80 percent of a vote opponents dismissed as...

Algeria’s Bouteflika meets with Kerry, talks security

August 25, 2021 at 3:40 a.m.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday, discussing better security cooperation in the Maghreb region in one of his longest...

Tunisia’s main secular party open to Islamist coalition

December 23, 2018 at 10:52 p.m.

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's main secular party that helped push ruling Islamists out of office last year is open to governing with them if 2014 elections do not produce a...

In standoff, Libyans protest over parliament extension

August 25, 2021 at 1:08 a.m.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Several thousand Libyans marched in Tripoli and Benghazi to demand the dissolution of the interim national parliament, whose mandate had originally been due to expire on Friday...

Libya says five kidnapped Egyptian diplomats freed

August 25, 2021 at 12:40 a.m.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Five Egyptian diplomats kidnapped in Tripoli in retaliation for Egypt's arrest of a Libyan militia commander have been freed, Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Razak Al-Grady said...

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