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The Government of Mali and Tuareg rebel alliance significant exchanged prisoners this week, the two sides and a UN source said, in a move hailed as a step forward for the country’s nascent peace process. A total of 47 prisoners were exchanged between the government and the coordination of movements …
Read More »Libya peace talks continue
The rival factions of Libya resumed talks Monday to Morocco to try to move forward with a UN-brokered peace agreement and agree on a national unity government. The United Nations has been piling up pressure on the Libyan factions to take the last step and make the appointments after months …
Read More »Central African Republic: 61 dead, 300 injured in the September violence
The outbreak of violence that has engulfed Bangui end of September was 61 dead and 300 wounded, said Monday the Central African government, revising upward previous assessments reports of forty dead. “The death toll of the violence established hospital source is 61 dead and over 300 injured,” said a statement …
Read More »Central African Republic: Chadian President calls for the end of the transition
Chadian President Idriss Deby very influential in CAR, said Monday that the ongoing transition in the country should “stop” and elections be held before the end of 2015, following a late surge of violence in September in Bangui. “This transition must stop. It should be (better) poor election more than …
Read More »Burkina: the transition continues its hunt for coup
The transition authorities Burkinabe are not content to have arrested General Gilbert Diendéré. Several officers of the RSP suspected of involvement in the coup were also arrested. Since the dissolution of the Presidential Security Regiment (RSP), several officers were placed under arrest by the police and are being questioned in …
Read More »Niger: foiled several suicide bombings in Bosso in the Southeast
Boko Haram suicide bombers blew themselves up Sunday night at Bosso, in the southeastern Niger. Attacks that have made more victims than perpetrators. “Four suicide bombers from Boko Haram who were wearing explosive belts died after (them) have exploded Sunday, October 4 at 9:00 p.m. local time (2000 GMT) but …
Read More »Tunisian President to visit Cairo Sunday
Essebsi will hold meetings with President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Arab League chief Nabil El-Araby, focusing on bilateral relations and shared interests. Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi will start an official two-day visit to Cairo Sunday to discuss bilateral relations between the countries, an official source within Egypt’s foreign ministry told …
Read More »Algeria to maintain closed border between Libya until a peace agreement is reached
Algeria has delayed the opening of the three land border with Libya due to what has been called “the absence of a central government capable of controlling the borders,” said a diplomat yesterday. A source of the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that …
Read More »Army says most have joined the rebels Burkina
Ouagadougou – A majority of the troops of the elite Army regiment Burkina Faso behind a failed coup joined the loyalist units after it was dismantled, an army source told AFP Thursday. “More than 800 men” on the 1300 in the powerful Presidential Security Regiment (RSP) who made the coup …
Read More »Burkina Faso coup leader detained to stand trial
Ouagadougou – The chief of the recent coup attempt in Burkina Faso was detained Thursday by government forces in order to face trial, local media reported. General Gilbert Diendéré had taken refuge in the residence of the representative of the Catholic Church in the country and agreed to go into …
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