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Bujumbura – Five African heads of state met with Burundi’s president in Bujumbura on Friday at the end of a two-day visit to push for talks to end the country’s political crisis. The delegation’s visit came just days after a trip by UN chief Ban Ki-moon as international efforts to …

Tunisia arrested 17 suspects on Tuesday in a manhunt for jihadists near the Libyan border after a deadly raid it described as an unprecedented assault by the Islamic State group (ISIS). Analysts said Monday’s co-ordinated attacks showed jihadists are keen to spread their influence from Libya to Tunisia and to …

Mali’s High Court on Monday rejected an attempt by a civil society collective to have President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita face a charge of high treason. A group of associations filed the complaint against Keita last week to the court, which is competent to judge the country’s leaders if accused by …

Nairobi – Almost 2 000 assault rifles plus grenade launchers and heavy machine guns were seized by an Australian warship, the navy said on Monday, part of international efforts to police the seas off Somalia. Sailors from Australia’s HMAS Darwin boarded the fishing boat that was “headed towards the Somalia …

The militants’ death toll rose to 42 following the security operation in Ben Guerdane in southwestern Tunisia, authorities said on Wednesday. At least seven terrorists were killed by security forces on Tuesday in an ongoing armed confrontation in Ben Guerdane near the Libyan border, the interior and defense ministries said …

Egypt has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted army and police posts in the Tunisian town of Ben Guerden near the Libyan border on Monday, killing at least 50 people. Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid extended Egypt’s deepest condolences to the Tunisian government and people. Abu Zeid …

Five terrorists were killed Wednesday in clashes with the military and security forces in the region of Ben Guerdane (south), near the Libyan border, told AFP the spokesman for the Tunisian Ministry of Defense. “Five terrorists holed up in a house in El Aouija were shot by the military and …

Representatives of the fifteen member countries of the UN Security Council have “found” during their visit to Mali “a real will to make peace” with all parties involved in the process, said one of these ambassadors Sunday in Bamako.

After a first foray in Tunisia, a terrorist group came from Libya launched attacks in Ben Guerdane Monday. Among the victims were 28 attackers, according to a provisional toll. The scenario is always the same. Aboard Car 4 × 4, armed men crossed the border between Libya and Tunisia at …

Egypt on Sunday accused the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas to be involved with the Muslim Brotherhood, in the attack that killed in 2015 in Cairo to the Attorney General Hisham Barakat. “This plot was executed on the orders of the Muslim Brotherhood (…) in close coordination with Hamas, which has …