Africa

Tunisia’s prime minister says the army and private contractors are building a barrier along the border with Libya to keep out extremists following recent terror attacks claimed by ISIS. Habib Essid said construction aimed at rendering the border “impassable” by jihadi fighters and vehicles is expected to run through year-end.

Cameroon’s army has repulsed an attack by Boko Haram and killed three of the Nigerian Islamist militants in heavy fighting in the Far North region of the country, a Cameroon government spokesperson said on Thursday. The attack represented a change of tactics by the militants following a series of battlefield …

Indian Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi left Cairo Wednesday, 8/7/2015 winding up a visit to Egypt during which he met with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. Naqvi invited Sisi to attend the third Indian-African Forum Summit.

At least 8 000 homes have been searched and over 1 000 people detained in anti-terror sweeps since March’s deadly attack on Tunisia’s Bardo National Museum, a government minister revealed on Tuesday. At least 120 of those detained were being held on suspicion of terrorist activity, Kamel Jendoubi, minister for …

French special forces killed a leader of al-Qaeda’s north African branch who was suspected of playing a role in the kidnapping of hostage Serge Lazarevic, the army said. “During an operation in the north-eastern town of Kidal in Mali, “two terrorists were captured and a third, Ali Ag Wadossene, was …

More than 100 armed Islamists have been killed, captured or have repented in Algeria in the first half of this year, the defence ministry said Tuesday. A statement, carried by national news agency APS, did not give a breakdown of the 102 Islamists it said were no longer battling Algerian …

As the world’s youngest nation prepares to mark its fourth year of independence from Sudan on Thursday, South Sudan finds itself in the ignominious position of being “lower in terms of human development than just about every other place on earth,” according to a UN report documenting the ravages of …

At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between Arabs and Berbers around the Algerian desert town of Ghardaia, with several businesses and homes burned down, medical sources and state media said on Wednesday.

Tunisia said it started deploying armed police around tourist sites yesterday after last week’s massacre at a beach resort, as authorities finished identifying all 38 people killed in the jihadist attack. Britain said it was transporting home eight bodies of its nationals killed in the assault, with Tunisia’s health ministry …

Algeria “strongly” condemned the attack that targeted, Thursday, in the region of Timbuktu, in Northern Mali, the forces of the United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), said the spokesman of the ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdelaziz Benali Cherif.