Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said he will visit Cairo on Saturday to hold talks with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry within the framework of the joint Sudanese-Egyptian political consultations committee. Ghandour on Sunday cancelled a planned trip to Cairo, saying “we told our brothers in Egypt about the postponement …

France said on Friday it wanted to re-open its embassy in Libya as soon as security conditions permit. Libyan officials claimed this week that Paris was mulling re-opening its diplomatic mission in Tripoli, but Foreign Ministry officials said that this would only come about if this could be done in …

Since late at night on Thursday and up until today evening, clashes between Operation Dignity forces backed up by air raids from Egyptian warplanes and Benghazi Defence Brigades and Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous brigades positioned in Waddan and Sokna towns in Jufra, central Libya. According to sources from Jufra, the airstrikes were …

fficials say that French soldiers deployed to Mali to fight against Islamic extremists have killed at least 20 jihadis at the country’s border with Burkina Faso. French Operation Barkhane said on Friday that activities carried out by soldiers from Sunday to Thursday in the Serma forest left 20 jihadis “out …

Three army officers and a soldier were killed in an explosion in Egypt’s Western Desert on Wednesday after a clash with militants, the military said. The incident comes days after Islamic State group jihadists gunned down 29 Christians in an attack southwest of the capital.

France says several French soldiers have been injured, including one seriously, in a mortar attack on a United Nations peacekeeping camp in Mali. The French military said in a statement that Thursday’s attack occurred in Timbuktu near the site where a French unit is based.

Algeria’s army on Friday shot dead two suspected Islamists south of the capital Algiers days after gunmen in the same region wounded four policemen, the defence ministry said. The army killed the two, seizing two Kalashnikov rifles, ammunition and a pair of binoculars, in the Bougarra area of the Blida …