Every day lost in the implementation of Mali’s peace agreement is a day gained for extremist and terrorist groups that have bet heavily on the failure of the process, the UN peacekeeping chief said here Tuesday. Herve Ladsous, the UN under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations, stressed that the Malian government and …

Tunisia and Algeria are for a political solution to the crisis in Libya, Speaker of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) Mohamed Ennaceur was quoted as saying. At his meeting Tuesday in Algiers with Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation Ramtane Lamamra, Ennaceur told reporters “the talk focused on …

Algeria’s army on Monday killed four armed Islamists in El-Oued, the defence ministry said, meaning almost a dozen have been killed in the lawless desert region in the past two weeks. Four Kalashnikov automatic weapons, grenades and ammunition were also seized during the military-led operation in the Bir El Kasira …