Eurasia Press & News

The transition authorities Burkinabe are not content to have arrested General Gilbert Diendéré. Several officers of the RSP suspected of involvement in the coup were also arrested. Since the dissolution of the Presidential Security Regiment (RSP), several officers were placed under arrest by the police and are being questioned in …

Boko Haram suicide bombers blew themselves up Sunday night at Bosso, in the southeastern Niger. Attacks that have made more victims than perpetrators. “Four suicide bombers from Boko Haram who were wearing explosive belts died after (them) have exploded Sunday, October 4 at 9:00 p.m. local time (2000 GMT) but …

Essebsi will hold meetings with President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Arab League chief Nabil El-Araby, focusing on bilateral relations and shared interests. Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi will start an official two-day visit to Cairo Sunday to discuss bilateral relations between the countries, an official source within Egypt’s foreign ministry told …

Algeria has delayed the opening of the three land border with Libya due to what has been called “the absence of a central government capable of controlling the borders,” said a diplomat yesterday. A source of the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that …

Ouagadougou – A majority of the troops of the elite Army regiment Burkina Faso behind a failed coup joined the loyalist units after it was dismantled, an army source told AFP Thursday. “More than 800 men” on the 1300 in the powerful Presidential Security Regiment (RSP) who made the coup …

Ouagadougou – The chief of the recent coup attempt in Burkina Faso was detained Thursday by government forces in order to face trial, local media reported. General Gilbert Diendéré had taken refuge in the residence of the representative of the Catholic Church in the country and agreed to go into …

New violence in the Central African Republic has forced the delay of October 18 elections to put the troubled country on firmer political ground, officials said Thursday officials, but they hope the vote will take place at the end of this year. A transitional government is in charge of leading …

A senior German diplomat was appointed to become the new UN special envoy for Libya, diplomats Thursday in New York on the sidelines of the General Assembly of the UN. Martin Kobler, who previously led UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is to succeed Bernardino Leon of …

Yola – Suspected Boko Haram fighters killed 11 people in attacks against three villages in Nigeria’s Adamawa State northeast, an MP and local official said Friday. The attacks Wednesday night at Kubu Bitiku and four deaths, while seven were killed early Thursday morning in Kirchinga.

The Tunisian presidency announced Friday night to lift the state of emergency, which was reintroduced in early July a few days after the bloody attack of Sousse (38 dead), claimed by the Islamic State Group (EI). “The state of emergency announced on July 4 and July 31 extended, ends today …