Eurasia Press & News

Juba – Forced displacement of civilians is emerging as a strategy South Sudanese forces are putting to use to weaken rebels in the country’s civil conflict, the UN said on Thursday. “From the middle of 2015, a new pattern emerged,” especially in northern Unity state, “with entire villages being burned …

New York – The UN secretary-general is urging African Union states to address South Sudan’s failure to meet a deadline to establish a transitional government of national unity. Ban Ki-moon said through his spokesperson on Monday that forming a transitional government is an “essential step” in implementing a peace deal …

Oil tanks were on fire Thursday in the north of Libya after a new attack by jihadists to gain control of oil facilities. Islamic State group fighters (EI) attacked at dawn tanks in Ras Lanuf, the heart of “oil Crescent” of Libya, about 650 km east of Tripoli, announced the …

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday signed for multi-billion dollar contracts with Egypt as part of a tour in the Middle East to strengthen the economic presence of his country in this region. Arrived the previous evening from Saudi Arabia, Xi held talks Thursday in Cairo with his Egyptian counterpart …

After the “success of the presidential election” last October, organized in quiet, the UN decided Wednesday to downsize its mission of maintaining peace in Ivory Coast. By 30 March, UNOCI must thus from 5 437-4 000 soldiers. At the latest early in 2018, all peacekeepers must have left Ivorian territory. …

Social demands have inflamed the city of Kasserine since mid January and the discontent is now gaining in other regions of the country. An atmosphere reminiscent of 2010, just before the uprising against Ben Ali. On January 17 in Kasserine (Northwest), Ridha Yahyaoui, a young unemployed rises to an electricity …

France will continue its counter-terrorism operation in the Sahel in its current format, despite the two attacks which have just hit Bamako and Ouagadougou. This was stated by the Minister of French Defence, Jean-Yves Le Drian said Wednesday. Friday, January 15, jihadists have struck for the first time the heart …

The Islamic state (EI) claimed the attack against a checkpoint that killed five policemen and three wounded in north Sinai on Wednesday night. “Unidentified people opened fire on a force-El Etlawi up security in the center of the city of Al-Arish, capital of North Sinai province,” said Thursday

Nairobi – Burundian rebels named a fugitive ex-general who fled after leading a failed coup bid last May as their leader on Thursday, hours before UN Security Council ambassadors were expected in Bujumbura. Ex-general Godefroid Niyombare, a former intelligence chief, is the leader of the Forebu rebels, said spokesperson Edward …

New York – UN Security Council ambassadors headed to Burundi on Wednesday to push the government to open up serious talks with the opposition and agree to an African Union force that could prevent a slide to all-out war. It is the second time in less than a year that …