November, 2016

• 15 November

  Tunisia finds 4 arms caches near Libya border

  Tunisian authorities have discovered four arms caches in the south of the country near the border with war-ravaged Libya and seized large quantities of weapons, security sources said on Monday. Two were found Saturday near the city of Ben Guerdane, a third on Sunday and another on Monday also in …

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• 15 November

  Japan OKs additional role for its troops in South Sudan

  Japan’s cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval for an additional mission for Japanese troops in South Sudan to assist the UN peacekeepers with rescue operations, a task opponents say would risk embroiling the troops in international fighting in violation of the country’s pacifist constitution.

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• 15 November

  Libya's Hatfar forces control 70% of country

  Spokesman for the Libyan National Army said on Wednesday that his forces have controlled 70 percent of the country’s territories. “After retrieving the majority of homeland, we pledge to fight hard until the entire soil of Libya is freed from the grip of terrorist groups,” the army spokesman Ahmed al-Mesmary …

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• 15 November

  US warplanes hit IS in south Libya

  US fighter aircraft carried out Monday night three airstrikes targeting houses in Al-Firda, Brak Al-Shatti, southern Libya, said the spokesman of the Third Force appointed to secure the southern region, Mohammed Gliwan.

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• 15 November

  Algeria Undertakes Military Exercise Near Moroccan Border

  The Algerian army has undertaken a four-day military training exercise south of Tindouf under the supervision of Gaid Salah, Chief of Staff of the Algerian army. For the second time this year, the National Popular Army (ANP) of Algeria carried out a live fire training exercise in an area dubbed …

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• 10 November

  Egyptian-Tunisian partnership meetings to take place in Cairo in 2017

  Egyptian-Tunisian partnership meetings will take place in Cairo in the first quarter of 2017, according to the recommendations adopted by the Tunisian-Egyptian Joint Chamber and published on Thursday in a press release by the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA). The Chamber, which met on Wednesday ahead of …

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• 10 November

  Sudan renews support to the national accord government

  The Sudanese president ‘Omar Basher’ , has renewed his country’s support to the national accord government ‘NAG’ , and his rejection to “any foreign intervention in the internal affairs of Libya”. In the closed session of the African summit and Libya neighboring countries held in Addis Ababa , president Basher …

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• 10 November

  UN appoints new deputy head of Libya mission

  The United Nations has appointed a new deputy head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to succeed Jordan Ali H. Al-Za’tari. Maria do Valle Ribeiro is to take over from Al-Za’tari. Ribeiro has around 30 years’ experience in the UN and working in international NGOs and has served …

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• 10 November

  Malta hosts UN-led political dialogue on Libya

  Malta is hosting a Libyan political dialogue meeting which is being held under the auspices of the United Nations, together with the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Martin Kobler. Foreign Affairs Minister George Vella, who addressed the meeting this morning, was quoted in a ministry press …

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• 10 November

  Algeria to increase Morocco border surveillance

  The Algerian government has decided to employ more sophisticated means to monitor its borders with Morocco by creating a system of technical surveillance and electronic borders, an official from the Ministry of Justice announced yesterday, Algeria’s state-run APS reported. “Both mobile and fixed means will be in place for securing …

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