July, 2015

• 8 July

  Pakistan hosts Afghan peace meeting

  Pakistan hosted a meeting between the Afghan government and Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan representatives in eastern Murree city near federal capital as part of the commitment to facilitate an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process, said Foreign Office on Wednesday. According to Pakistan Foreign Office, representatives from China and the United …

  Read More »
• 8 July

  Indian minister wraps up Cairo visit after meeting with Sisi

  Indian Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi left Cairo Wednesday, 8/7/2015 winding up a visit to Egypt during which he met with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. Naqvi invited Sisi to attend the third Indian-African Forum Summit.

  Read More »
• 8 July

  Tunisia arrests over 1000 in terror clampdown

  At least 8 000 homes have been searched and over 1 000 people detained in anti-terror sweeps since March’s deadly attack on Tunisia’s Bardo National Museum, a government minister revealed on Tuesday. At least 120 of those detained were being held on suspicion of terrorist activity, Kamel Jendoubi, minister for …

  Read More »
• 8 July

  French spec ops kill terrorist leader in northern Mali

  French special forces killed a leader of al-Qaeda’s north African branch who was suspected of playing a role in the kidnapping of hostage Serge Lazarevic, the army said. “During an operation in the north-eastern town of Kidal in Mali, “two terrorists were captured and a third, Ali Ag Wadossene, was …

  Read More »
• 8 July

  Tunisian army kills at least 100 armed islamists

  More than 100 armed Islamists have been killed, captured or have repented in Algeria in the first half of this year, the defence ministry said Tuesday. A statement, carried by national news agency APS, did not give a breakdown of the 102 Islamists it said were no longer battling Algerian …

  Read More »
• 8 July

  South Sudan turmoil continues

  As the world’s youngest nation prepares to mark its fourth year of independence from Sudan on Thursday, South Sudan finds itself in the ignominious position of being “lower in terms of human development than just about every other place on earth,” according to a UN report documenting the ravages of …

  Read More »
• 8 July

  18 people killed in Algerian clashes

  At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between Arabs and Berbers around the Algerian desert town of Ghardaia, with several businesses and homes burned down, medical sources and state media said on Wednesday.

  Read More »
• 5 July

  CHINA: TOWARDS A SUPERPOWER STATUS — Case Study: The Chinese Influence in Africa

  The recent Group of Seven (G7) summit meeting in Schloss Elmau (Germany) took place in a global context marked not only by the proliferation of crises – from the Russian seizure of Crimea and the advent of the Islamic State to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and heightened tensions …

  Read More »
• 3 July

  Tunisia security forces deployed across tourist sites

  Tunisia said it started deploying armed police around tourist sites yesterday after last week’s massacre at a beach resort, as authorities finished identifying all 38 people killed in the jihadist attack. Britain said it was transporting home eight bodies of its nationals killed in the assault, with Tunisia’s health ministry …

  Read More »
• 3 July

  Algeria condems Mali attack on UN peacekeepers

  Algeria “strongly” condemned the attack that targeted, Thursday, in the region of Timbuktu, in Northern Mali, the forces of the United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), said the spokesman of the ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdelaziz Benali Cherif.

  Read More »