Thomas Cook

Algeria: Travelers under 40 submitted to Jihadist security check

Algeria is closely monitoring its citizens planning to travel to countries like Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon and Sudan after it became clear that those who plan to join Islamist extremist groups like the Islamic State or Al-Qaeda tend to pass through other countries in order to cover their traces. Most of these […]

Mali warns to defend itself against alleged French sovereignty violations

Mali’s military government would exercise its right to self-defense if France continued to undermine the West African country’s sovereignty and national security, Mali’s foreign affairs minister Abdoulaye Diop warned on Tuesday (18 October). During a speech delivered at a United Nations Security Council briefing on Mali in New York, Diop accused France of violating Malian […]

Libya: UN suspends political dialogue indefinitely

The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has indefinitely suspended the Libyan political dialogue that was supposed to begin on 5 January. This is the third time the dialogue has been postponed. Fighting between the different warring factions in the North African country still continues. According to the spokesperson of the outgoing General National Congress, […]