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Peace talks between South Sudan’s government and rebels will extend beyond a Thursday deadline set by mediators to allow them to finalise details on power sharing, mediators from the regional East African group IGAD said. The group had allowed to the end of Thursday to iron out any issues that …
Read More »Sixty-eight people killed by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria massacre
Boko Haram gunmen killed 68 people, including many children, in a massacre in the northeast Nigeria village of Njaba, two witnesses and two vigilantes said today. Heavily armed militants stormed the village in Borno state on Tuesday “from all directions”, said Falmata Bisika, 62, who escaped to the state capital …
Read More »Morocco to hold Libya settlement talks
United Nations-brokered peace talks aimed at resolving the political turmoil in Libya have started in Morocco, hours after the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli was bombed. Warplanes from Libya’s UN-recognised parliament in Tobruk carried out the air strikes on the airport in Tripoli, which is currently governed by a …
Read More »Egypt seeks for mutual agreement with Nile basin countries
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said “reaching an agreement that achieves the common benefits for Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia is a must”, during his visit to Sudan on Wednesday. In his speech at the opening session of the tripartite committee meeting, which discussed the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the minister …
Read More »Libyan jets carry air strikes in Tripoli
Warplanes from Libya’s internationally recognised government carried out air strikes on a Tripoli airport, a security official said on Thursday, just hours before United Nations-backed peace talks were due to start in Morocco. The jets hit an open area near the runway at Maitiga airport but caused no major damage …
Read More »Algerian FM: Mali agreement very important step for reconciliation
The signing of the peace and reconciliation agreement in Mali is a “very significant” step made by Algeria in its efforts for the resolution of the conflict in the neighbouring country, said Tuesday in Geneva Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra.
Read More »UN, Algeria express commitment for solving Libyan conflict
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), which leads the mediation of inter-Libyan dialogue, has been active through the announcement of several meetings between the opposing parties, in addition to a meeting next week in Algeria to reach a political consensus meant to resolve the Libyan crisis.
Read More »UN calls on South Sudan parties to push for settlement
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly urged South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar to show leadership, put the well being of South Sudanese ahead of all other interests. Moreover, Ban urged them to make the necessary compromises to conclude a power sharing agreement that paves …
Read More »Two terrorists killed during tunisian military operation
Two terrorists were killed in the military operation that has been ongoing for three days on the heights of Kasserine, said Spokesman for the Tunisian Ministry of National Defence, Lieutenant-Colonel Belhassen Oueslati. They are the so-called Hazem Ben Habib Ouertani and Fethi Ben Abdallah Ben Hassine Khélifi, he said on Tuesday.
Read More »New round of peace talks for Libya to start this week
A new round of United Nations-facilitated talks aimed at resolving Libya’s political crisis will kick-off later this week as stakeholders from the North African country prepare to gather in Morocco, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has announced. “The parties underscored the need to urgently resume the dialogue …
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