Burkina Faso’s interim president, Brahim Traoré, said Russian troops could be deployed to fight jihadists in his country if needed.

The United States announced that it had deported a large number of illegal Mauritanian immigrants who entered the United States through the separation barrier with Mexico.

The Libyan army’s 444th Brigade announced that its soldiers had arrested a group of Nigerian smugglers in the area of the city of Mizdah, located in the center of the western part of Libya.

A Saudi official source said the kingdom is continuing to consider inviting BRICS to join the BRICS group, after the group asked to join it last year.

The website “Africa Intelligence”, which is close to decision-makers in Paris, said that the commander of the Libyan army, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, is approaching the military council in Nigeria with the blessing of Russian President, Vladimir Putin.

Senior commanders of Sudan’s army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) met three times this month in Bahrain in the first such degree of communication between the warring sides in the nine-month-old conflict, sources familiar with the matter said.

A Tunisian court sentenced Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi and his brother-in-law Rafik Abdeslam to three years in prison with expedited enforcement on charges that their party received foreign funding during the 2019 elections, despite not attending the trial session.

The TT Desert Rally was launched in the city of Waddan, with the participation of clubs specialized in this sport from various Libyan cities.

Oil prices fell more than two percent at the settlement after speculation of a proposed ceasefire in Gaza.

The Director of the Media Office of the Tracing Authority in Libya, Abdulaziz Al-Jaafari, reported that 1,739 bodies were exhumed from the Dahr al-Ahmar cemetery and 862 from the Martouba cemetery, since the Derna flood until the end of January this year.

Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ political bureau, arrived at the head of a Hamas delegation in Cairo to discuss the possibility of reaching a new truce in the Gaza Strip.

The Libyan Minister of Oil and Gas, Mohamed Aoun, held a meeting with the Ambassador of the Republic of Malta, Charles Saliba, to discuss enhancing joint cooperation between the two countries.

MP in the Libyan Presidential Council, Moussa al-Koni, received on Thursday the UN envoy to Libya, Abdullah Batelli, where the latter gave a briefing on recent meetings with political parties.

The Egyptian government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, lifted the state of emergency on its southern border to counter an attack by swarms of yellow desert locusts coming from Sudan.

Morocco criticised the performance of Sudanese referee Mahmoud Ali, who officiated their two-goal loss to South Africa in the round of 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations on Tuesday.

The head of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council and army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, categorically rejected any negotiations to end the fighting, stressing his commitment to war to achieve gains in conjunction with continuing reports about Iran supplying arms shipments to the Sudanese army.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received on Thursday at the Ittihadiya Palace the President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, during which several issues of strategic importance were highlighted.

Israel’s Channel Seven has revealed a future plan for the post-war administration of the Gaza Strip, which includes the formation of an interim military government with the participation of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

The Talbia area in Giza, southern Egypt, witnessed a horrific accident, where a powerful explosion occurred in a residential building, resulting in 13 people with burns and destruction in the vicinity of the incident.

A Sudanese delegation from the Coordination of Civil Democratic Forces (TAQADUM) arrived in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on Wednesday, led by Omar al-Digair, replacing the head of the coalition calling for an end to the war, Abdullah Hamdok, who was absent from the visit due to a sudden illness.