Africa

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 …

Ouagadougou – The United Nations secretary general says he is deeply concerned by attacks by Islamic extremists in Burkina Faso and West Africa, urging a global response. Ban Ki-moon spoke on Thursday in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou. Extremists in January attacked a café and hotel here, killing at least 30 …

Washington – A US drone strike on a Shebaab training camp in Somalia over the weekend killed more than 150 fighters who were planning a “large-scale” attack, the Pentagon said on Monday. Pentagon spokesperson Captain Jeff Davis said the strike occurred sometime on Saturday (US time) on a camp called …

Tunis – At least 45 people were killed on Monday near Tunisia’s border with Libya in one of the deadliest clashes seen so far between Tunisian forces and extremist attackers, the government said. The fighting in the border town of Ben Guerdane in eastern Tunisia comes amid increasing concern that …

Algerian Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ramtane Lamamra said Thursday that Algeria “will not be involved in military intervention in Libya or elsewhere,” insisting on the need for political solution to the Libyan crisis. In a statement to the press following his talks with Angolan …

Tunis – Tunisian security forces killed five militants near the Libyan border on Wednesday in a gunbattle in which one civilian also died and an army commander was wounded, the government said. Troops had been on alert after receiving reports that militants had slipped across the border over the past …

New York – South Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is catastrophic and continues to worsen as warring sides are “dragging their feet” in implementing a peace deal, the UN peacekeeping chief said Wednesday. Herve Ladsous said “tens of thousands of people have died, we’ve lost count” and some two million have been …

Cairo – Algeria, Egypt and Italy on Sunday called for a political solution in Libya, on the eve of UN-mediated talks aimed at forming a unity government in the war-torn country. Libya plunged into chaos after a 2011 Nato-backed uprising toppled and killed veteran dictator Muammar Gaddafi, with heavily armed …