French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drain and his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar appear to have sorted out one of the key issues holding up the estimated $15 billion deal to buy 126 Rafale fighter jets for the Indian Air Force. A final decision is expected to be taken before Prime …

Egypt shut its embassy in Sanaa and recalled all its staff on Monday due to deteriorating security, state media said, joining a diplomatic exodus since Shiite militia seized the Yemeni capital. Long on the front line of the US war against al-Qaeda, Yemen has descended into chaos since the Shiite …

Mali’s Prime Minister Modibo Keita urged a swift agreement in negotiations with rebels restarting this week in Algiers, saying progress was “looking very good” toward a definitive peace deal in the north. Attempts to reach an accord between Mali’s government and the mostly Tuareg rebel movements demanding more autonomy in …

Airstrikes conducted by Egyptian air force against a site of the terrorist organization “Islamic State” (IS/Daech) in Libya “are not likely to fundamentally change the commitment of countries in the region to an inclusive dialogue in Libya,” Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra stressed Monday.

A meeting of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) countries held in Khartoum on Saturday (February 21) was attended by all members said Sudan’s Minister for Irrigation and Electricity, Moatez Moussa. Mr. Moussa said that the NBI members had agreed to prioritize the interests of their people and promote cooperation for …

Foreign ministers from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France have called for a total ceasefire in eastern Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin ruled out the “apocalyptic scenario” of all-out war. Top diplomats from the four countries, whose leaders hammered out the initial peace plan in the Belarussian capital Minsk 12 …

Britain will send military personnel to Ukraine over the course of next month to help advise and train Ukrainian government forces, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday. Speaking before a House of Commons committee, Cameron said up to 75 British service personnel divided into four teams would be deployed to a zone away from the area …

Pro-Russian forces massing near Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol are continuing to attack government troop positions, Kiev says, fuelling concerns for the fate of an internationally brokered ceasefire. Continued hostilities there and elsewhere meant a pull-back of heavy weapons could not go ahead as agreed, Ukrainian officials said. “As Ukrainian …

President Uhuru Kenyatta will make a three-day State visit to the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria from February 24, 2015. The visit comes after Kenya recently opened a resident mission in Algiers and posted Ambassador Moi Lemoshira to promote diplomatic relations between the two countries. Previously, Kenya’s embassy in Cairo …

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid called on governors to discharge their missions in countering terrorism and protecting borders against any threat to the national security. « Tunisia’s major challenge today is security, which requires a firm action, » he said, Saturday, in his opening address of the Conference of Governors.