Somali government forces backed by African Union troops have recaptured a strategic island on the country’s south coast from Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels, officials and witnesses said Monday. A statement from the AU’s AMISON force said Kudha island, situated in the autonomous Lower Juba region and around 70 kilometres (40 miles) …

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have given orders for work on creating a free trade zone between Ukraine and Turkey to be expedited, Erdogan said in Kyiv, after talks with Poroshenko.

General Philip Breedlove, Commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe of NATO command operations, Sunday said that small arms shipments to Ukraine are still an option. “I do not think that any tool of the US or any other power should necessarily be off the table,” he told the Brussels …

President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and President of the African Union Robert Mugabe will start Tuesday, a three-day state visit to Algeria at the invitation of President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the presidency of the Republic said Monday in statement.

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have signed an initial agreement on how to share water from the Nile River that runs through the three countries, as Ethiopia constructs a massive new dam it hopes will help alleviate some of its electricity shortages.

Eight civilians were killed in an air strike near Tripoli on Monday, the US ambassador said, an attack that was claimed by Libya’s official government. War planes belonging to the country’s internationally-recognised government attacked Tarhouna, a town near Tripoli which is held by a rival armed group, air force commander …

Tunisia’s prime minister has fired five leading security officials after three gunmen attacked a Tunis museum, killing 21 in the deadliest attack on tourists in Tunisia in 13 years, the government said on Monday. The ousted officials include the director of Tunisia’s tourist police and the police chief for the …

Yemen’s Shiite militia sent reinforcements south and clashed with local fighters on March 23 after the United Nations warned the country is on the brink of a protracted civil war. Security sources said the militiamen, known as Huthis, had sent several thousand troops south and fought with local Sunni tribes as they …

Turkey’s government cannot take further steps in the peace process unless the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party(PKK) lays down its arms and takes concrete steps to foster peace, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said. “Peace is not possible under the shadow of arms … We cannot move forward in an environment in which promises …

India and China will hold the 18th round of border talks in Delhi from tomorrow – the first round of negotiations after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power last year – where the two sides are expected to focus on clarification of the Line of Actual Control (LAC).