Eurasia Press & News

A Congolese official says at least 23 rebels have been killed in an operation launched in May to combat rebels in the North Kivu province. North Kivu governor Julien Paluku said on Thursday the joint UN and military operation in Beni has also led to the capture of five rebels, …

Two months after his dramatic arrival in Libya’s capital, Fayez al-Sarraj’s unity government has won international support but had little impact inside a divided country plagued by jihadists, analysts say. The head of the Government of National Accord sailed into Tripoli under naval escort on March 30 in defiance of …

At least five UN peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in central Mali by suspected militants on Sunday, the UN and police sources said. The attack is the first time the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, Minusma, has recorded fatalities in the centre of a country long beset by violence …

An Egyptian court has convicted and sentenced 36 Islamists, including a top leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, to life imprisonment. The state-run MENA news agency says Mohamed Badie and the other defendants were sentenced on Monday for inciting violence that led to the killing of three people in July …

A judge has declared Chad’s former dictator Hissene Habre guilty and sentenced him to life in prison for crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture. Judge Gberdao Gustave Kam delivered the verdict and sentence on Monday in a packed courtroom.

The Head of Libya Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord Fayez Al Saraj met on the sidelines of the UN-sponsored World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul yesterday the Turkish President Racep Tayeb Erdogan. Bilateral relations were discussed during the meeting which was attended on the Libyan side by Mussa …

The Egyptian army said on Wednesday that its forces have killed 88 militants in central and North Sinai during recent military operations. As a continuation of an earlier campaign which started in September 2015, the army announced that it will begin the third phase of the operation entitled Martyr’s Right. …

The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) stressed Tuesday in Algiers that “it is convinced” of the need for the mobilization of all Malian parties to ensure a better response to human needs and meet security challenges so as to improve the situation in Mali.

Kenyan troops in Somalia may have killed 21 suspected al-Shabaab extremists who were plotting an ambush in southern Somalia, said a Kenyan official. A lone gunman shot at the Kenyan troops on Tuesday and fled while the troops were on the way to Tabda in southern Somalia, military spokesperson Colonel …

The last remaining United Nations sanctions on Liberia were lifted on Wednesday in a decision the United States said was a tangible sign of how far the West African country had come. The UN Security Council voted unanimously to lift an arms embargo on rebel groups that was imposed 13 …