Africa

Algeria’s efforts for peace in Mali and Libya show its commitment to preserving the territorial integrity in those two neighbouring countries, the speaker of the People’s National Assembly (Lower House of Parliament), Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa, has said.

Aid from the Egyptian Armed Forces to Syrian refugees in Lebanon will arrive in Beirut over three days starting Tuesday. The aid, which will be loaded in three airplanes, consists of medicine, medical supplies, foods, tents, blankets and other relief supplies, and will go to refugees in Arsal in east …

The United Nations on Saturday condemned a fresh outbreak of violence in Libya, just as rival factions prepare to resume talks on forming a government to halt the country’s conflict. Pro-government forces clashed Friday and Saturday with fighters from the Islamist-backed Fajr Libya militia alliance in Aziziya, a town 35km …

At least 13 people, mostly security personnel, were killed and over 40 others injured today in two separate attacks claimed by an Islamic State affiliate in which militants targeted an army vehicle and a suicide bombing hit a police station in Egypt’s volatile North Sinai region.

Kenya said it has asked the UN refugee agency to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees by July in the wake of the Garissa University massacre. “We have asked the UNHCR to relocate the refugees in three months” or “we shall relocate them ourselves”, a government statement quoted Vice …

UN Security Council condemned on Tuesday in the strongest terms the recent terrorist attacks perpetrated by Boko Haram group in northeast Nigeria and Chad. Members of the Security Council extended their condolences to the families of the victims and their sympathy to all those injured, as well as to the …

Tunisia’s army spokesperson says an ambush by extremists in a mountainous region near the Algerian border has killed two soldiers and wounded three others. Brigadier General Belhassen Oueslati told the state news agency on Tuesday that the attack took place near the mountain of Mghilla in the central west of …

United Nations peacekeeping troops in Democratic Republic of Congo have launched operations against a Rwandan Hutu rebel militia operating along Congo’s border with Rwanda, the UN commander said on Tuesday. Defeating Rwandan FDLR insurgents, who have long been used as a pretext for intervention in Congo by neighbouring Rwanda, is …

Kenyans marched demanding greater national security on Tuesday following last week’s massacre by Somalia’s Shabaab Islamists, ahead of a candlelit vigil on the final day of mourning for the 148 people killed by the militants. Tuesday’s demonstration, with at least 200 students marching through central Nairobi waving placards, comes as …

A Nairobi court on April 7 ordered five Kenyans and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while police investigate possible connections to last week’s university massacre. The court agreed to state lawyers’ request for the extended detention period, which usually would last 24 hours before the detainee has …