Africa

The French President confirmed Monday, in Algiers, that a military operation against a Libyan site where the terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar was took place, adding that there is a “great probability” that this terrorist was killed in this operation.

Algeria “welcomes” the opening on Monday in Geneva of peace talks among the Yemeni parties and voices hope that this dialogue reaches a “political” solution to the crisis the country is facing, Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Abdelaziz Benali Cherif said.

Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Mursi was sentenced to death by a Cairo court on Tuesday for accusations of escaping from the Wadi al-Natroun prison. The former president and 128 other defendants are accused of collaborating with international bodies, the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah, to escape prison during the January …

French President Francois Hollande heads to Algeria on Monday as the two nations, once bitter foes, work ever closer to resolve the political turmoil and jihadist threat in Mali and Libya. The trip will be Hollande’s second to Algiers since a 2012 visit during which he recognised France’s century of …

In a firefight, the Kenyan army killed 11 militants – including two apparent foreigners – from the Somali extremist group al-Shabaab and suffered two fatal casualties, a military spokesperson said Sunday.

Twenty-three people were killed and more than 100 wounded in twin suicide bombings targeting police in the Chadian capital Monday, with the government blaming Boko Haram militants for the bloodshed. They were the first such attacks in the capital of the central African nation, which has been on the frontline …

French President Francois Hollande will pay Monday a friendship and working visit to Algeria at the invitation of President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the presidency of the Republic said Sunday in a statement. “At the invitation of His Excellency President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika, His Excellency Francois Hollande, …

The top United Nations official in Libya has strongly condemned an attack on the Tunisian consulate in the Libyan capital of Tripoli which resulted in the capture of ten consulate staff members. In a press release issued earlier today, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of …

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced 23 people to 14 years in prison on charges of killing Shiia leader Hassan Shehata and three other members of the Shiite Muslim community in June 2013, officials said.

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari is planning to visit Cameroon to cement a regional fighting force against Boko Haram, he said on Monday. Buhari met his counterparts from Niger, Chad and Benin at a summit in Abuja last week but Cameroon’s leader Paul Biya was noticeably absent and represented by his …