Egyptian fighter jets have stricken bases of the Islamic State (Daesh) in eastern Libya after the latter claimed the attack south of Cairo on a bus carrying Copts that left 29 dead. The Copts had been travelling to the monastery of St Samuel the Confessor, 85 miles south of Cairo, when their small convoy was […]
Algeria has completed demining operations in fulfilment of its obligations under the Ottawa Convention, clearing 93 mined or suspected mined areas, including 78 former mine barrages, and destroying more than one million antipersonnel mines, local media said. “Thanks to decades of sustained efforts, strong national demining capacities and engagement by authorities at the highest level […]
The Pentagon is planning a drone base in northwest Africa to counter the growing terror threat posed by the Islamist extremists linked to Al Qaeda, says the New York Times on its web site. The base will be most probably established in Niger or Burkina Faso, sharing borders with Mali where French and Malian troops […]
