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More than 100 armed Islamists have been killed, captured or have repented in Algeria in the first half of this year, the defence ministry said Tuesday. A statement, carried by national news agency APS, did not give a breakdown of the 102 Islamists it said were no longer battling Algerian …

As the world’s youngest nation prepares to mark its fourth year of independence from Sudan on Thursday, South Sudan finds itself in the ignominious position of being “lower in terms of human development than just about every other place on earth,” according to a UN report documenting the ravages of …

At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between Arabs and Berbers around the Algerian desert town of Ghardaia, with several businesses and homes burned down, medical sources and state media said on Wednesday.

Tunisia said it started deploying armed police around tourist sites yesterday after last week’s massacre at a beach resort, as authorities finished identifying all 38 people killed in the jihadist attack. Britain said it was transporting home eight bodies of its nationals killed in the assault, with Tunisia’s health ministry …

Algeria “strongly” condemned the attack that targeted, Thursday, in the region of Timbuktu, in Northern Mali, the forces of the United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), said the spokesman of the ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdelaziz Benali Cherif.

Egyptian Army Spokesman Mohamed Samir said the situation in Sinai is 100 percent under the army’s control. During a phone call with Egyptian TV channel 1 late Wednesday 1/7/2015, he said such terrorist groups and their supporters have shallow minds as they imagined they can take over Sinai’s Sheikh Zuwaid.

Chad’s chief prosecutor says that security forces have arrested one of the leaders of the Nigerian extremist group, Boko Haram. Prosecutor Alhassim Khamis said in a statement on Monday that Bahna Fanaye, whose alias is Mahamat Moustapha, was apprehended on Sunday, along with two others. He said Fanaye co-ordinated the …

The UN Security Council on Wednesday imposed sanctions on six commanders from South Sudan, the first to be blacklisted in a country where 18 months of war have brought horrific violence. The six generals – three from the government forces and three from the rebels – were punished with a …

Tunisian authorities have arrested eight people suspected of “direct” involvement in the attack on a holiday resort that killed 38 foreign tourists. While 12 people were initially detained, four were subsequently released.

Six United Nations peacekeepers were killed and five wounded in an attack on their convoy in north Mali near Timbuktu, the UN Mali mission said on Thursday. The convoy was attacked in the morning about 45km south of Timbuktu while patrolling on the road between Goundam and Timbuktu, the mission …