Somali government forces and allied militias, backed by the United States and African Union (AU), have recaptured a strategic town that the al-Shabab armed group had controlled for six years. Pro-government forces entered the town of Adan Yabal in Hirshabelle, about 220km northeast of the capital Mogadishu, after the al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters withdrew without resisting, President […]
Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmad Aboul Gheit, praised in the report presented Wednesday to the Arab League Ministerial Council, Morocco’s efforts to settle the Libyan crisis, and its hosting meetings of the Libyan 6+6 Joint Committee for Preparing Electoral Laws, on May 22 – June 7 in Bouznika. The resolution of the Arab […]
Tunisia’s Justice Ministry has commissioned an investigation into causes of a gas explosion at the house of Interior Minister Taoufik Charefeddine, Webdo Tunis reports. An explosion rocked the Minister’s house on Monday. The authorities blamed gas leak as cause of the blast. The explosion took place in the kitchen, the interior ministry said in a […]
