July, 2016

• 25 July

  More than 20 000 flee South Sudan to Uganda

  The UN refugee agency reports that 26 000 people have fled South Sudan to Uganda this month. Andreas Needham, spokesperson for the UN refugee agency, said on Friday that thousands of South Sudanese have left their country since fighting erupted on July 7 between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir …

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• 25 July

  Libya summons French ambassador over military presence

  Libya’s government has summoned the French ambassador amid concern over the French military presence in the country. Three French officers were killed last week in eastern Libya, and the French government acknowledged that special forces are operating there as part of Western efforts to support the unity government.

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• 25 July

  UN envoy Libya must unite against IS

  The UN’s special envoy on Libya on Tuesday called on all the country’s armed groups to unite against ISIS. “The fight against Daesh, which is the number one enemy, must be a Libyan fight and a united fight,” said Martin Kobler, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS, after meeting French …

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• 21 July

  Libya: 3 French soldiers die in helicopter crash

  President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday three French soldiers were killed in a helicopter accident in Libya during an intelligence-gathering mission in the North African state. They are the first confirmed Western military casualties since it became known this year that special forces were operating on the ground in Libya. …

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• 20 July

  Algeria buys warship from China

  China delivered a stealth corvette to the Algerian Navy last week, marking a new high in the nation’s export of military ships. The C28A-class guided missile corvette was commissioned by the Algerian Navy on July 12 at a port of Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group in Shanghai, becoming the third of its …

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• 20 July

  Algeria strongly condemns attack on military camp in Mali

  Algeria has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a military camp in Nampala, Mali, on Tuesday, the spokesman of the ministry of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday. “We strongly condemn the terrorist attack perpetrated Tuesday against a military camp in Nampala, Mali,” Abdelaziz Benali Cherif said.

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• 20 July

  AU calls for rapid solution to South Sudan conflict

  South Sudan has topped the peace and security agenda at the recent African Union summit, with leaders looking for a “quick solution” to the recent outbreak of violence there. AU peace and security commissioner Smail Chergui told journalists, following the end of the AU summit on Monday, that heads of …

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• 20 July

  Libyan rival politicians discuss deadlock solution

  Libyan rival politicians are meeting in Tunisia to search for a way to break the deadlock in the country’s crisis, including changes to the UN-brokered road map for its political future. Libya is split between rival governments and parliaments based in the western and eastern regions, each backed by different …

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• 20 July

  Thousands have fled into Uganda from South Sudan

  More than 5 000 people have fled crisis-hit South Sudan into neighbouring Uganda since the latest outbreak of violence began on July 7, the UN said on Tuesday, voicing fears that more could follow. An estimated 90% of those who have crossed the border in recent days were women and …

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• 20 July

  Armed group kills 17 soldiers at Mali base

  Seventeen soldiers were killed and 35 wounded in central Mali on Tuesday in an assault on their base that authorities called a “coordinated terrorist attack”. “The toll has increased: we have lost 17 men and 35 are wounded,” Mali’s defence minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly said. Authorities had earlier announced that …

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