Leaders of Rwanda and Benin have met over the weekend to discuss ways of containing a potential spillover from an Islamist militant insurgency that has been gaining ground in neighboring Burkina Faso. Along with Benin, three other West Africa coastal nations — Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Togo — have suffered attacks in border areas blamed […]
The UN Security Council Monday extended for one year the existing arms embargo on Libya in a move welcomed by the UN Chief who asked all countries to implement the ban on the North African country, which has become a terrain of international influence. Members of the council unanimously voted in favor of the ban […]
The Algerian Foreign Minister informed lawmakers Tuesday that the North African country’s embassy in Tripoli will reopen soon. “Algeria will be in Tripoli soon,” Abdelkader Messahel told the Algerian parliament. However, Messahel made a similar announcement last year following a visit in Tripoli, but the embassy is still closed. Algeria closed its embassy in 2014, […]
