Algeria has welcomed “with satisfaction” the signing, Sunday in Juba, of a peace agreement in South Sudan by President Salva Kiir, praising the efforts made by all the parties to consolidate peace in this country and the whole the region. “Algeria welcomes with satisfaction the signing of a peace agreement …

The Algerian military has killed two armed Islamists who had been active for more than 20 years, the defence ministry announced on Thursday. The two “dangerous terrorists” were killed in an ambush late on Tuesday in the Jijel region, around 300km east of Algiers, it said on its website.