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 …