At least 13 civilians have been killed by suspected jihadists in chronically unstable northern Mali, elected officials...
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Sahel: Al-Qaeda-linked group claims deadly Mali attack on UN peacekeepers
An Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack last week in Mali's deeply troubled...
Sahel: Second UN peacekeeper dies after attack in Mali
A UN peacekeeper has died of wounds sustained in an attack last week in Mali, raising the death toll in the assault to...
Sahel: Six people die of hunger after militia isolated their village in Mali
Bamako, July 24, 2019 - The Malian army will urgently deliver food and medical supplies to a region in central Mali,...
Libya: Fighting intensifies near Tripoli
Tripoli, July 23, 2019 - Forces loyal to Libya's UN-recognised government said they fought off a "major" attack on the...
Sahel: Foreign troops wounded in attack on military base in Mali
Paris, July 22, 2019 - Three French and Estonian troops were wounded on Monday when a car bomb exploded at the...
Egypt: Islamic State beheads four civilians in North Sinai
Cairo, July 17, 2019 - On Wednesday, 17 July, Islamic State militants beheaded four civilians in Sheikh Zuweid, in...
Sahel: Soldiers ambushed in NE Mali
Bamako, July 18, 2019 - A Malian soldier was killed and two others wounded in an ambush on their convoy in the...
Morocco: Killers of European tourists get death sentence
Salé, Morocco, July 18, 2019 - Three Islamic State group supporters were sentenced to death by a court in Morocco on...
Tunisia: Islamic State Group issues new threat against Tunisia
Tunis, July 17, 2019 - The Islamic State group has called for more attacks in Tunisia in a rare propaganda video...
Egypt: Suicide bomb attack claims two lives in Sheikh Zuweid
Cairo, July 18, 2019- Two people including a civilian were killed in a suicide bomb attack Thursday targeting security...
Libya: The backers of warlord Khalifa Haftar are calling for halt of fighting
Washington, July 16, 2019 - Key powers including backers of a rebel leader called Tuesday for a halt to fighting in...
Sahel: The bizarre idea of the International Crisis Group to solve the security crisis in Mali
Commentary by Arezki Daoud: The highly respected International Crisis Group (ICG) has proposed to Mali the...
Morocco: Judges under intense pressure to issue death penalty to killers of European tourists
Salé, Morocco, July 11, 2019 - The mother of a Danish student beheaded along with another Scandinavian woman while...
Libya: Car bomb at a Benghazi funeral claims three lives
Benghazi, Libya, July 11, 2019 - A car bomb exploded during the funeral of an ex-army commander in the Libyan city of...
Tunisia: Suspected mastermind of twin suicide attacks blows himself up, as death toll from his attack rises to two
Tunis, July 3, 2019 - The suspected mastermind of last week's twin suicide bombings in Tunis was killed when he blew...
Libya: Khalifa Haftar warplane kills 40 migrants who were jailed in a detention center
Tripoli, July 3, 2019 (By Imed LAMLOUM) - Nearly 40 migrants were killed in an air strike Tuesday night on their...
Libya: UAE weapons used by warlord Haftar
Dubai, July 2, 2019 - The UAE denied Tuesday it shipped US missiles to Libya, which is under a UN arms embargo, after...
Libya: Haftar’s embarrassing defeat in Gharyan may complicate the Libyan civil war
Tripoli, July 2, 2019 - By Imed Lamloum - Libya's military strongman Khalifa Haftar, by provoking Turkey, seeks to...
Libya: Haftar frees Turkish sailors before it is too late
July 1, 2019 - Six Turkish sailors held by forces led by Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar have been freed, a Turkish...
Libya: Warlord Haftar complicates his situation as he loses Gharyan
Benghazi, Libya, June 29, 2019 - Strongman Khalifa Haftar has threatened to attack Turkish interests in Libya after...
Morocco: Lawyers speak of Moroccan government failure to track terrorists, as suspects face death penalty
Salé, Morocco, June 27, 2019 - Lawyers for the family of a Danish hiker murdered last year in Morocco said on Thursday...
Tunisia: Main attacks in Tunisia since 2011 revolution
Tunis, June 27, 2019 - Two suicide bombers attacked security forces in the Tunisian capital on Thursday, killing a...
Morocco: Killers of European tourists in Morocco face death penalty
Salé, Morocco, June 27, 2019 - (By Ismail Bellaouali) - Moroccan prosecutors on Thursday called for the death penalty...
Libya: Setback for warlord Haftar as Tripoli forces retake Gharyan
Tripoli, June 26, 2019 - Libyan forces opposed to Khalifa Haftar claimed Wednesday to have retaken Gharyan, a...
Tunisia: Tunis rocked by twin terror attacks, as President fights for his life
Tunis, June 27, 2019 - Double suicide attacks shook Tunisia's capital Thursday, even as the country was plunged into...
Sahel: Two gendarmes killed in terror attack in Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou, June 25, 2019 - A "terrorist attack" left two gendarmes dead and one seriously wounded in the north of...
Egypt: Another terror attack in Egypt’s North Sinai
Cairo, June 26, 2019 - Seven police officers have been killed in a jihadist attack in restive North Sinai, Egypt's...
Sahel: 18 insurgents killed in Niger’s Tongo Tongo area over a ten-day campaign
Niamey, June 20, 2019 - Eighteen members of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara were killed in a joint operation...
The Libyan civil war: no break for Tripoli
Tripoli, June 20, 2019 - Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has vowed to press ahead with an offensive to seize Tripoli,...
Libya: Three wounded in air raid on site operated by Mellitah Oil & Gas Company
Tripoli, June 19, 2019 - Libya's National Oil Company deplored an air raid that on Tuesday evening destroyed a...
Sahel: Mali’s ethnic Dogon people under attack
June 18, 2019 - Thirty-eight people (updated to 41) were killed and many others wounded in attacks on two ethnic Dogon...
Sahel: Three security personnel killed in new violence in Mali
Bamako, June 17, 2019 - Two Malian gendarmes were killed by a mine explosion outside a military base and a soldier...
Sahel: Insurgents attack village in Burkina Faso, kill 19
June 10, 2019 - Nineteen people died in an attack on a village in the troubled north of Burkina Faso, a security...
Sahel: Three killed by French troops in Mali, locals say the victims were civilians, demand justice
Brief: MEA Risk LLC | 10 June 2019: On 8 June, in Raz El Ma area of Timbuktu, French forces of Operation Barkhane...
Sahel: Massacre in a Dogon village in Mali
Bamako, June 12, 2019 - A massacre at a village in central Mali that according to early estimates killed 95 people...
Sahel: IED hits US military vehicle near Ouallam, Niger
Washington, June 9, 2019 - A US military vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Niger, site of a deadly...
Sudan: The butchers of Khartoum
Comment by Arezki Daoud | 6 June 2019: Taking place simultaneously with the Algerian protests, Sudan has gone from a...
Egypt: Army retaliates for Eid attack on checkpoint in North Sinai, kills 14 suspected militants
Cairo, June 6, 2019 - Egyptian security forces have killed 14 suspected militants during a raid carried out in the...
Egypt: Islamic State attacks army checkpoint in North Sinai, kills eight security agents
Cairo, June 5, 2019 - Militants killed eight Egyptian paramilitaries on Wednesday at a checkpoint in the Sinai...
Libya: NOC warns of possible collapse of oil production amid intensifying civil war
Tripoli, June 3, 2019 - The head of Libya's National Oil Company warned Monday against a "collapse in production"...
Libya: Haftar troops unable to capture Tripoli, more violence ahead
Al-Swani, Libya, June 3, 2019 - As meat sizzled on a barbeque in a Tripoli suburb, Libyan fighters defending the...
Sahel: How Mali is descending into chaos
June 3, 2019 - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning of a "high risk" of atrocities in Mali in a report...