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Tunisia’s interior ministry and the US embassy in the North African signed Monday a memorandum of understanding, MoU, aiming at cooperation between the two countries in the area of the fight against terrorism, reports say. Tunisian Prime Minister, Hichem Mechichi who also doubles as the country’s interior minister noted that the deal is in line […]
Abderrazak Soumah, a penitent jihadist who had been convicted for terrorism and one of the founders of the terrorist movement “Mujahedin Movement in Morocco” appeared recently in a video, denying claims of torture in Moroccan prisons circulated by several former convicts. Abderrazak Soumah specifically denied in his video allegations of torture in Moroccan prisons claimed […]
The US State Department recently raised the level of its warning to US travelers wishing to travel to Algeria to Level 4, the highest level on its scale of insecurity, and attributed this to the risks of “terrorism and kidnapping.” According to the travel warning posted on its website, the State Department advises Americans not […]
The corpse of a shepherd believed beheaded by terrorists was found Sunday in the mountains of the Kasserine governorate. The decapitated body of the young man from Hassi El Frid (Kasserine governorate) was found Sunday afternoon by his family in the closed military zone in Mount Salloum, the victim’s uncle Nejib Dhibi told TAP. […]
The Congolese capital Brazzaville hosted on Tuesday an international symposium celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Brazzaville Manifesto, the act by which General Charles de Gaulle designated this city as the capital of Free France during the Second World War. Four African heads of state who took part in the symposium seized this opportunity to […]
Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations told the Security Council last week that the last six months have been particularly challenging as the G5 Sahel group, mustering Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, deploys a joint force to restore stability to the vast African sub-region. “We are seeing attempts by terrorists and other groups in the […]
Forces aligned with east-based Libyan rebel Gen. Khalifa Haftar have arrested Egypt’s most notorious terrorist known as Mohammad Mohammad Al-Sayyid. He was wanted by Cairo for attacks on security forces and Coptic Christians, reports say. Haftar’s self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) announced al-Sayyid’s arrest on Wednesday. The man described as the most dangerous terrorist in […]
A US diplomat in Sudan Thursday escaped a gun attack in capital Khartoum. The US official who has not been named was attacked by a gunman who fired at his car as he was on his way home, Turkish Anadolu news agency reports citing a diplomatic source who asked not to be named. The Sudanese […]
A blast from a landmine Sunday injured a Tunisian soldier during a patrol in restive Kasserine governorate, Webdo Tunis reports. The army, in a statement, said the wounded soldier is in good condition and his life is not threatened by injuries sustained on the leg. The blast occurred while the army was patrolling the mountainous […]
Egypt has refused to welcome its citizens stranded in Qatar amid global battle against covid-19 and diplomatic tension between the two countries. A source at Qatar’s foreign ministry told Doha-based news network Al Jazeera that the Gulf country has charted a plane to bring home Egyptian nationals but Egypt has refused to let the Spanish […]