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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 …
Read More »CAR elections delayed by new violence
New violence in the Central African Republic has forced the delay of October 18 elections to put the troubled country on firmer political ground, officials said Thursday officials, but they hope the vote will take place at the end of this year. A transitional government is in charge of leading …
Read More »German diplomat to become UN envoy to Libya
A senior German diplomat was appointed to become the new UN special envoy for Libya, diplomats Thursday in New York on the sidelines of the General Assembly of the UN. Martin Kobler, who previously led UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is to succeed Bernardino Leon of …
Read More »Boko Haram suspected after 11 killed in Adamawa, NE Nigeria
Yola – Suspected Boko Haram fighters killed 11 people in attacks against three villages in Nigeria’s Adamawa State northeast, an MP and local official said Friday. The attacks Wednesday night at Kubu Bitiku and four deaths, while seven were killed early Thursday morning in Kirchinga.
Read More »Tunisia lifts the state of emergency, introduced after the assassination of Sousse (Chair)
The Tunisian presidency announced Friday night to lift the state of emergency, which was reintroduced in early July a few days after the bloody attack of Sousse (38 dead), claimed by the Islamic State Group (EI). “The state of emergency announced on July 4 and July 31 extended, ends today …
Read More »Boko Haram: suicide bombings kill at least 10 in northeast Nigeria
At least 10 people were killed and 39 wounded in four suicide bombings Thursday in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria, the military said Friday. “So far we have had confirmation of 14 dead, counting the bombers, and 39 wounded,” said the headquarters of Defense in Abuja.
Read More »DRC: the evils of Congolese military justice highlighted
In a report to charge the American NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) called the DRC to urgently reform the military justice system. Back on the main critics. The Human Rights Watch (HRW) report is damning for the Congolese justice. In a document of 117 pages published Thursday, October 1, the …
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