Intelligence co-ordination between Tunisia and Algeria as part of the fight against terrorism has reached a high level, Algeria’s ambassador in Tunis Abdelkader Hajjar said on Monday. “Sharing of intelligence between the two countries is instantaneous,” he stressed on the sidelines of the meting of the Tunisian-Algerian joint co-operation commission …

The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali says a peacekeeper has shot dead two colleagues in what has been called a “settling of scores.” A statement from the mission on Friday says the suspect was immediately detained after the shooting at the UN base in Kidal in northern Mali. An investigation …

Eight people, including two rangers, a soldier and five militiamen were killed in a militia attack near Lake Edward in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga national park, park authorities said on Friday. A soldier who was helping the park rangers was killed and three others were wounded, one seriously, …