Eurasia

Chad’s chief prosecutor says that security forces have arrested one of the leaders of the Nigerian extremist group, Boko Haram. Prosecutor Alhassim Khamis said in a statement on Monday that Bahna Fanaye, whose alias is Mahamat Moustapha, was apprehended on Sunday, along with two others. He said Fanaye co-ordinated the …

The UN Security Council on Wednesday imposed sanctions on six commanders from South Sudan, the first to be blacklisted in a country where 18 months of war have brought horrific violence. The six generals – three from the government forces and three from the rebels – were punished with a …

Tunisian authorities have arrested eight people suspected of “direct” involvement in the attack on a holiday resort that killed 38 foreign tourists. While 12 people were initially detained, four were subsequently released.

Six United Nations peacekeepers were killed and five wounded in an attack on their convoy in north Mali near Timbuktu, the UN Mali mission said on Thursday. The convoy was attacked in the morning about 45km south of Timbuktu while patrolling on the road between Goundam and Timbuktu, the mission …

French President Francois Hollande has urged African leaders to respect their constitutional term limits, and expressed concern that some were prepared to risk political instability in order to remain in power. Hollande spoke in Cotonou during a two-day African visit.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has stated that his nation has no intentions of seizing any other lands, neither is it interested in going to war without a reason, adding that the parliament has sanctioned action in the event of threats to its borders.

Tunisia condemned, Tuesday, the assassination of Egypt’s public prosecutor in a terrorist attack Monday in Cairo. While expressing heartfelt condolences and deep sympathy to the people and government of Egypt as well as to the families of the victims, Tunisia reasserted

According to the United Nations refugee agency, the number of people displaced within Libya has almost doubled from an estimated 230,000 last September to more than 434,000 amid escalating fighting this year in different parts of the crisis-gripped North-African country. “The internally displaced persons (IDPs) comprise 83,697 families, according to …

The Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a one-year extension of the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s western Darfur region where conflict is intensifying, rejecting the Sudanese government’s demand that the troops leave. A resolution adopted by the UN’s most powerful body keeps the size of the force …

A Tunisian gunman who killed 39 people at a resort hotel, mostly British holiday-makers, probably spent time in a training camp in Libya and had been in contact with militants over the border, a security source said on Tuesday. The attack on the Imperial Marhaba beach hotel in the popular …