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A camp Minusma has been targeted by Monday morning shelling in Gao. They made no injuries or damage, an official of the UN mission and local elected. “Early this morning, terrorists launched at least four shells towards the camp Minusma Gao. It is the Dutch contingent that was targeted, “said …

According to judicial sources, the trial of 28 Burundian soldiers and police officers accused of involvement in the attempted coup of May 13 and 14 in Burundi, including General Cyrille Ndayirukiye, former defense minister and number two coup , opened Monday.

Tunis – Tunisia announced on Friday the closure of its main Tunis-Carthage international airport to Libyan planes as part of security measures since a suicide bombing in the capital. “We face a dangerous situation. We have taken a number of security measures,” Transport Minister Mahmoud Ben Romdhane told Mosaique FM …

Violent battles have erupted between armed groups in Yambio, the capital city of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, local Eye Radio reported Tuesday. The battles have broken out between government troops and a local armed group known as “arrow boys” which is allied to South Sudan’s major rebel group led …

Defence Ministers of the 5+5 Initiative were unanimous in arguing that a military option in Libya is not a solution to meet the security challenges in that country. Only a political solution is possible, they stressed at their meeting Thursday in Tunis. This consists in the formation of a single …

Warring Libyan factions meeting in Tunisia have reached an agreement on ending the political deadlock that has plagued the country since Muammar Gaddafi’s overthrow. “This is a historic moment the Libyans were waiting for, the Arabs were waiting for and the world was waiting for,” said Awad Mohammed Abdul-Sadiq, the …

Lithuania intends to deploy up to 40 soldiers to Mali, as part of its military assistance program to France, the Lithuanian Parliamentary Committee of Foreign Affairs decided Friday. “Until now it was up to 20 soldiers, but we mandated to increase the number to 40,” Benediktas Juodka, chairman of the …

PARIS- United States Secretary of State John Kerry hailed Algeria’s leadership in the settlement of Mali crisis, and underlined its efforts that led to the signing of the Peace and Reconciliation Agreement in Mali, by all the involved parties. “I would like to hail Algeria’s leadership with respect to the …

ALGIERS- Algeria’s position regarding the Libyan crisis is “constant and remains unchanged,” Minister of Maghreb Affairs, African Union and Arab League Abdelkader Messahel told APS on Monday. “it is based on the respect for the sovereignty of this country, its territorial integrity and unity as well as the cohesion of …

ALGIERS- Tunisian ambassador to Algeria Abdelmadjid Ferchichi said Tuesday here that his country supported the political agreement concluded under the aegis of UN on the conflict in Libya, underlining that the UN process is the “foundation” of all solution to the crisis in this country. The UN document signed Sunday …