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Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry met with his Italian and Algerian counterparts in Cairo Monday to discuss the current Libyan crisis, according to the ministry’s webpage. During the meeting, Shoukry stressed on the importance to continue supporting the efforts of UN Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean, Bernardino …

U.S. President Barack Obama said, Monday, that a support plan will be announced in favour of Tunisia as well as two other countries touched by terrorism (Nigeria and Iraq, during the next general meeting of the United Nations Assembly due mid-September, 2015 in New York, spokesman of the Presidency of …

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AU) Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma hailed the signing, in Algiers, of the record of conclusions of the preparatory consultations on the implementation of the peace and reconciliation agreement in Mali, resulting from the Algiers process. The chairperson of the Commission also hailed the signing of …

The Nigerian government says new President Muhammadu Buhari has told France’s leader at the G-7 summit that his country would welcome greater support from other nations in its effort to end Boko Haram’s insurgency. A government statement said Buhari also said Monday that Nigeria would like more intelligence on Boko …

Libya’s warring factions meet for a new round of “decisive” talks on Monday as the UN scrambles for a peace deal before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan next week. Amid warnings the oil producer is on the verge of collapsing into a failed state, United Nations …

Libya’s internationally-recognised Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni has survived a shooting attack during a demonstration against the government, according to a government source. “A convoy of the prime minister was shot at as he was leaving Tobruk air base, the parliament’s temporary headquarter,” a senior government official said on Tuesday.

French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday met with Central African Republic (CAR) interim president Catherine Samba-Panza for talks amid ongoing tensions in the troubled African nation, an official statement said. The two leaders discussed, notably, ongoing efforts to arrive at a settlement to the civil conflict that has killed tens …

Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Mali, Chief of Minusma, Mongi Hamdi said on Monday he convicted that “reason would prevail” so that the other party of the Coordination of Movements of Azawad (CMA) can sign “without delay” the peace and reconciliation agreement, following the Algiers process.

President Barack Obama on Thursday elevated Tunisia to new allied status, promising financial and security assistance to ensure the North African country’s transition to democracy remains a success in a fragile region. Obama announced in an Oval Office meeting with newly elected Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi that he intends …

Jean-Louis Destans, Deputy of the Eure Department at the French National Assembly and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee at this Assembly, Tuesday, reasserted France’s commitment to carry on supporting the democratic transition process in Tunisia.