Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has dissolved the long-standing military spy directorate known as the DRS, creating a new agency under the control of the presidency in another step to ease the military out of politics, security sources said. Bouteflika, rarely been seen in public since he suffered a stroke in …

Mogadishu – Residents say Kenyan forces have pulled out of a town in southwestern Somalia where Islamic extremists killed Kenyan peacekeepers recently. Ahmed Hassan, who lives in El-Ade, said the town is “no man’s land now” after Kenyan troops started withdrawing early on Tuesday and heading toward the Kenyan border.

Nairobi – The bodies of Kenyan soldiers killed when Al-Qaeda-linked militants overran their base in Somalia were flown home late on Monday draped in the national flag as a rescue operation was underway for survivors. Defence Minister Raychelle Omamo called the dead “VIPs, the fallen heroes” as four coffins arrived …