Three terrorists and a soldier were killed Wednesday in new clashes in Ben Guerdane (East), target Monday of jihadist attacks unprecedented making 55 dead. “Two terrorists were killed (….) By police and military units”, said initially the Ministries of Defence and Tunisian Interior said in a statement on 9 March. …

Visiting the Sahara, the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, has drawn the ire of the Moroccan government, which accuses him of having departed from its neutrality and having made outrageous towards Morocco.

Mogadishu – Special forces operatives in two helicopters staged an overnight raid on Somalia’s Shabaab insurgents, government officials and the al-Qaeda-linked gunmen said on Wednesday. The raid, reportedly by foreign troops, targeted the Shabaab-controlled town of Awdhegele, some 50km west of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.