Africa

Bamako – Gunmen launched an attack Monday evening on the European Union military training mission’s headquarters in the Malian capital, Bamako, in what appeared to be the latest in a series of attacks on Western interests in the region. Armed forces killed at least one man, who lay outside the …

Mogadishu – Somalia security forces have killed 65 Shebaab Islamic insurgents who attacked coastal towns in the semi-autonomous Puntland area in the country’s northeast, the regional army chief said on Monday. “The fighting is almost over and the security forces are now pursuing the remnants of the militants” after five …

A high-level 12-member delegation from France arrived in Cairo on Tuesday to prepare for French President Francois Hollande’s upcoming visit to Egypt. Hollande is expected to visit Cairo on 18 April, a trip that was announced in December 2015. The French delegation will stay in Egypt for four days.

Tunisia strongly condemned “the terrorist attack” which killed several people in the capital city of Turkey, said on Monday, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Tunisia reasserted full solidarity with Turkey and exhorted the international community to boost regional and international co-operation to fight against terrorist threats and examine the

A terrorist cell was discovered in the locality of Zaafrane (delegation of Douz), the Interior Ministry said in a statement Monday. This cell was dismantled as part of the investigation conducted by security units in the region after individuals hoisted on Friday night the black flag of Daesh on top …

Mali seeks to draw on Algeria’s experience in national reconciliation, said Monday in Algiers the president of the Malian High Islamic Council, Mahmoud Mohamed Dicko. In a statement to the press at the end of his visit to Dar El-Imam in Mohammadia (Algiers), Dicko said that he came “to Algeria …

he UN Security Council on Monday welcomed a meeting of the Libyan Political Dialogue, and reiterated its concern about the growing terrorist threat in Libya. The intra-Libyan political dialogue held on Monday reaffirmed its commitment to uphold the Libyan Political Agreement, a UN-brokered deal signed in December on forming a …

Intelligence co-ordination between Tunisia and Algeria as part of the fight against terrorism has reached a high level, Algeria’s ambassador in Tunis Abdelkader Hajjar said on Monday. “Sharing of intelligence between the two countries is instantaneous,” he stressed on the sidelines of the meting of the Tunisian-Algerian joint co-operation commission …

The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali says a peacekeeper has shot dead two colleagues in what has been called a “settling of scores.” A statement from the mission on Friday says the suspect was immediately detained after the shooting at the UN base in Kidal in northern Mali. An investigation …

Eight people, including two rangers, a soldier and five militiamen were killed in a militia attack near Lake Edward in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga national park, park authorities said on Friday. A soldier who was helping the park rangers was killed and three others were wounded, one seriously, …