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Tunisia’s National Guard and Army units killed four suspected terrorists during a preemptive security operation Monday, announced Tunisia’s Interior Ministry Tuesday. “Anti-terrorist National Guard units took down four suspected terrorists Monday in the Ain Jaffel region, close to the Sidi Bouzid mountains,” said the Interior Ministry spokesperson, Yasser

he Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have completed the training of 10 military officers from Mali and are set to expand the program further with a new agreement getting the green light from Parliament. According to the minutes from a meeting of the Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Commission on Wednesday, Turkish …

Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ramtane Lamamra on Monday held phone talks with Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integration and International Cooperation Abdoulaye Diop, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Security sources in Egypt say nearly two dozen militants have been killed in an airstrike against a militant base in the country’s restive Sinai Peninsula. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the aircraft targeted a training camp for members of the Velayat Sinai militant group south of the …

MOGADISHU- The African Union (AU) has condemned Monday the double attack perpetrated by the terrorist group Al-Shabaab in the town of Baidoa, south of Somalia, Sunday evening. The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia, Francisco Caetano Madeira has strongly condemned the terror attacks, which …

Algeria will continue to provide its support for a “just and definitive” settlement of the conflict in Western Sahara through a “free and regular” self-determination referendum, said Tuesday in Geneva (Switzerland) the Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ramtane Lamamra.

Thirteen civilians were killed in the night from Sunday to Monday by suspected Ugandan rebels in the Beni territory in eastern DRC, said the Congolese army. “We have just discovered a total of thirteen bodies killed with knives, including four women,” said Lt. Mak Hazukay, spokesman of the Armed Forces …

While Blaise Compaore seems he installed in Côte d’Ivoire, which he received citizenship, the recent arrest in Abidjan CWO Nébié Moussa said Rambo (ex-RSP), gives grist to the Burkinabe justice in the prosecution of the coup attempt in Ouagadougou in September 2015. Arrested and extradited to Abidjan to Ouagadougou on …

Two Chadian peacekeepers in Mali, a head of unit and a military doctor, were killed Thursday in Kidal (north-east) by another soldier who complained about their living conditions within the quota, according to a security source within the UN Mission in the country (Minusma). The source initially told AFP that …

New York – The UN chief says global aid appeal for the conflict-torn South Sudan is just three percent funded, and the world body publishes $ 21m in emergency funds to help. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke during a visit to the East African country, where he spoke with his chief …