Africa

The Cairo Court of Appeals set on Monday the first retrial session for former President Hosni Mubarak and his sons over embezzlement charges, due to be held on April 4. Egypt’s Court of Cassation ordered on January 13 a retrial for Mubarak over embezzlement charges for which he has been …

Arab Foreign Ministers on Monday started their 143rd session at the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo to discuss draft resolutions prepared by the permanent delegates on several issues, mainly the protection of Arab national security. First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah is …

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius held talks here Monday with his Malian counterpart Abdulaye Diop to discuss the latest terror attacks in Mali over the weekend and ways to counter radical operations in northern Mali, official sources said. At least eight people died in two attacks Saturday and Sunday in …

Peace talks between South Sudan’s government and rebels will extend beyond a Thursday deadline set by mediators to allow them to finalise details on power sharing, mediators from the regional East African group IGAD said. The group had allowed to the end of Thursday to iron out any issues that …

Boko Haram gunmen killed 68 people, including many children, in a massacre in the northeast Nigeria village of Njaba, two witnesses and two vigilantes said today. Heavily armed militants stormed the village in Borno state on Tuesday “from all directions”, said Falmata Bisika, 62, who escaped to the state capital …

United Nations-brokered peace talks aimed at resolving the political turmoil in Libya have started in Morocco, hours after the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli was bombed. Warplanes from Libya’s UN-recognised parliament in Tobruk carried out the air strikes on the airport in Tripoli, which is currently governed by a …

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said “reaching an agreement that achieves the common benefits for Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia is a must”, during his visit to Sudan on Wednesday. In his speech at the opening session of the tripartite committee meeting, which discussed the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the minister …

Warplanes from Libya’s internationally recognised government carried out air strikes on a Tripoli airport, a security official said on Thursday, just hours before United Nations-backed peace talks were due to start in Morocco. The jets hit an open area near the runway at Maitiga airport but caused no major damage …

The signing of the peace and reconciliation agreement in Mali is a “very significant” step made by Algeria in its efforts for the resolution of the conflict in the neighbouring country, said Tuesday in Geneva Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra.

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), which leads the mediation of inter-Libyan dialogue, has been active through the announcement of several meetings between the opposing parties, in addition to a meeting next week in Algeria to reach a political consensus meant to resolve the Libyan crisis.