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Special representative and head of UN Support Mission in Libya Martin Kobler discussed on Monday with Algerian officials in Algiers the progress of the political process and the security situation in the violence-ridden Libya. Following his meeting with Algerian Minister for Maghreb Affairs, the African Union and the Arab League, …

At least 85 people were killed in the attack which struck Saturday near a town of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, according to a new toll announced Monday by the Health responsible for this region. Suspected militants of the Islamist group Boko Haram attacked Dalori, about ten kilometers from Maiduguri, capital …

The South Sudanese government troops killed in October 2015 fifty people by letting them suffocate in a cargo container placed in full sun, in a report established a group of international observers. This crime, committed in the northern state of Unity, one of the main battlegrounds of the civil war …

Two suicide attacks killed Sunday three dead and 56 injured in two Chadian villages in the Lake Chad region, regular target of attacks by the Nigerian Islamist Boko Haram Has it learned from security sources Sunday. The first attack targeted the village of Guié, where a suicide bomber on a …

France hopes to end its military operation in Central Sangaris in 2016, said Sunday Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. “The goal is that Sangaris operation as such, military operation is stopped,” he told the Grand Jury RTL / LCI / Le Figaro quoting the “democratic process” underway Central and the …

The representatives of the international community gathered this Monday At Addis Ababa for a donor conference. They promised to find $ 250 million to fight the best against the Islamist movement Boko Haram. “We have more or less 250 million dollars,” said Smail Chergui, Commissioner for Peace and Security of …

Washington – US President Barack Obama has asked key advisors to draw up options for ratcheting up the fight against the Islamic State group, including opening a new front in Libya. Eighteen months after a US-led coalition began airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, multiple administration sources said on …

Addis Ababa – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned African leaders on Saturday of the need for action in troubled Burundi at a summit hoping to end armed crises across the continent. African Union leaders face an unprecedented vote on deploying a 5 000-strong peacekeeping force despite Burundi’s vehement opposition, …

London – British, French and US military personnel have travelled to Libya to identify potential targets for airstrikes against Islamic States (ISIS) forces, the Sunday Times reported. Six British air force officers joined intelligence officers, diplomats and US and French military personnel on a reconnaissance mission near the coastal city …

Cairo – Two Egyptian policemen and two soldiers were killed on Sunday in two bombing attacks in the country’s restive Sinai Peninsula, where ISIS jihadists have regularly attacked security forces. In one attack at dawn, a remotely-detonated bomb hit a police vehicle as security forces were carrying out a search …