Algeria has delayed the opening of the three land border with Libya due to what has been called “the absence of a central government capable of controlling the borders,” said a diplomat yesterday. A source of the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that …

Ouagadougou – A majority of the troops of the elite Army regiment Burkina Faso behind a failed coup joined the loyalist units after it was dismantled, an army source told AFP Thursday. “More than 800 men” on the 1300 in the powerful Presidential Security Regiment (RSP) who made the coup …

Ouagadougou – The chief of the recent coup attempt in Burkina Faso was detained Thursday by government forces in order to face trial, local media reported. General Gilbert Diendéré had taken refuge in the residence of the representative of the Catholic Church in the country and agreed to go into …