minister, Ehmed Ben Omar, said in a brief online statement. Badreddine al-Najar, director of the National Centre for Disease Control, said the 73-year-old patient had returned from Saudi Arabia via Tunisia a week ago. He said that all persons who came into contact with the patient would be monitored and tested for COVID-19. Even before this first case was detected, both rival administrations had launched preventive measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, including night-time curfews and the closure of restaurants and cafes. But they have continued to fight in the main battleground south of the capital, where the sound of heavy bombardment was again heard on Wednesday. GNA forces said they were responding to pro-Haftar bombings of residential areas in Tripoli.
Podcast: The Sahel is the Next Big Geopolitical Crisis where Foreign Meddlers are Congregating
Transcript: The Sahel is now clearly the next big event in Africa's geopolitics. After the complete destruction of Libya, the same foreign powers that paid for the killing of a nation are now shifting their attention to the Sahel, establishing the bases of another...