L'attentat survient au lendemain de la mise en place par le Nigeria et ses voisins d'un plan de « guerre » contre le groupe islamiste armé Boko Haram.

L'annonce intervient au terme d'une journée de combats entre milices rivales à Tripoli, et après l'attaque du Parlement de transition par des hommes armés.

Éditorial. La responsabilité de Paris est aussi engagée. Bamako ne manque pas de rappeler que le MNLA est revenu à Kidal dans le sillage de l'armée française.

Cette décision intervient au lendemain de l'attaque du Parlement de transition libyen par des groupes armés réclamant sa dissolution.

Il generale «ribelle» Haftar e le sue milizie hanno sospeso i lavori del governo. Tripoli parla di «colpo di stato». Deputati costretti a fuggire. A Bengasi bilancio di 80 morti

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? Libya's parliament chief ordered Islamist-led militias to deploy in the capital Tripoli on Monday, trying to impose control after forces loyal to a renegade general stormed the legislature's building, in a move that raises the potential for a showdown between rival militias. The revolt by Gen. Khalifa Hifter threatens to detonate the volatile divisions plaguing Libya since the 2011 ouster and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. For the past three years, multiple militias have run rampant in the North African nation ? some with al-Qaida-style extremist ideologies. The central government has almost no authority and the military and police remain shattered since...

Gabe Joselow NAIROBI ? The United Nations warns that Somalia is at risk of another famine due to drought, rising food prices and the lingering threat posed by al-Shabab militants. The U.N. says a funding shortfall is forcing agencies to scale down humanitarian work when it is needed most. At a news conference in Nairobi Monday, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Phillippe Lazzarini said the current situation in Somalia has ldquo;troubling similaritiesrdquo; with...

Traditional hunters armed with poisoned spears and magic charms have gathered in their hundreds, eager to use their skills to help find nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists....

Libya is tipping toward all-out civil war as rival militias take sides for and against an attempted coup led by a renegade general that has pushed the central government towards disintegration. In a move likely to deepen the crisis, the army chief of staff, whose regular forces are weak and ill-armed, called on Islamist-led militias to help preserve the government. His call came after forces commanded by General Khalifa Hifter stormed the parliament building in Tripoli at the weekend, after earlier attacking Islamist militia camps in Benghazi. The fighting has been the heaviest since the overthrow of Muammar...

A dramatic spike in lawlessness in Libya's two largest cities has edged the country closer to civil war between heavily armed rival militias, stirring concern abroad and on oil markets....

KAKUMA 19 May 2014 (IRIN) - Physical space and timely protection support for children are among the most pressing needs in northwestern Kenya?s Kakuma refugee camp amid a continuing flood of people, for the most part minors, fleeing conflict in South Sudan....

DJIBO 19 May 2014 (IRIN) - Fighting has once again escalated in northern Maliapos;s Kidal region, with clashes between Tuareg separatists and the army reportedly killing 36 people on 16 and 17 May. Despite the failure of the 2012 rebellion in northern Mali and the loss of most of the territory they briefly laid claim to, Tuareg separatists say the fight for an independent territory of Azawad is not over. Activists from the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) now living as refugees in neighbouring Burkina Faso say their original demands still stand....

DAKAR/N?DJAMENA 19 May 2014 (IRIN) - A measles outbreak that is spreading across sub-Saharan Africa is showing no sign of let-up as vaccine campaigners struggle to reach all at-risk children....

19 May 2014 Last updated at 20:21 BST Mali's prime minister has said his country is at war with Tuareg separatists in the north of the country. Mousa Mara said troops were being sent there to retake the town of Kidal, which the rebels partly control. He was speaking after at least 17 people were killed in clashes in the city. The rebels...

Some 30 hostages abducted by Tuareg rebels in northern Mali on Saturday have been freed, the UN says. The hostages, some of them civil servants, were taken when...

Around 30 hostages kidnapped by Tuareg rebels in a deadly siege at local government offices in northern Mali over the weekend have been released, the United Nations has said. We have just taken...

Philip Aleu, Karin Zeitvogel OSLO ? Delegates from 41 donor nations began gathering in the Norwegian capital Monday for a conference to raise funds to avert famine in South Sudan. The conference marks the second time in five months that the international community is being asked to give money to address what a U.S. official who is attending the conference said is, quot;along with Syria, probably the largest, most significant crisis we#39;re facing in the world right now.quot; Jeremy Konyndyk, director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development, said the United States will make a quot;very substantial contributionquot; at the...

Tuareg rebels on Monday released some 30 civil servants whom they kidnapped in northern Mali during a deadly siege on local government offices over the weekend, the United Nations said....

Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab said it has attacked an army convoy across the border in Kenya and killed several soldiers....

An elite Libyan unit's commander says his troops are joining paramilitaries in the eastern city of Benghazi commanded by a retired general who has vowed to eradicate terrorism....

The United States has come to an agreement allowing it to share some intelligence with Nigeria to bolster the search for more than 200 girls kidnapped by Islamist rebel group Boko Haram....

UN rights experts have voiced outrage at a Sudanese court order to hang a heavily pregnant Christian woman for marrying a Christian man and refusing to renounce her faith....

Mali has sent troops to retake the rebel stronghold of Kidal after Tuareg separatists seized local government offices, taking hostages and engaging the army in a fire fight....

MI5 faces claims that it has been complicit in torture as recently as this February, after a former British resident told how he was beaten by Egyptian security forces working closely with the UK. Ahmed Diini, 25, alleges that he was questioned by a member of MI5 earlier this year while being tortured in an Egyptian prison. The claim challenges assurances given by Britain?s security and intelligence agencies last year that they no longer take part in operations where a suspect is being tortured or illegally detained by a foreign state. In November, the head of MI5 told MPs that his officers would never participate in or condone torture. Mr Diini, a grandson of the deposed Somalian dictator...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria ? Traditional hunters armed with homemade guns, poisoned spears and amulets have gathered in their hundreds, eager to use their skills and what they believe to be supernatural powers to help find nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists. Some 500 hunters, some as young as 18 and some in their 80s, say they have been specially selected by their peers for their spiritual hunting skills and have been waiting for two weeks in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital and the birthplace of Boko Haram, to get backing from the military and get moving. With Nigeria's military accused by many citizens of not doing enough to rescue the girls, the hunters demonstrated their...

A 24 mesi dal sisma, si continua a lavorare per tornare alla normalità. Tra gli sfollati, sette famiglie su dieci sono tornate a casa, ma 2600 persone restano nei moduli abitativi prefabbricati. In programma cerimonie e commemorazioni in tutta la zona colpita

Erano stati rapiti a Kidal da una frangia separatista. Il governo aveva definito l'azione come "una dichiarazione di guerra"

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Tunisian Dinar:
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of the commencement of the Common External Tariff (CET) regime across West Africa in 2015, Nigerian manufacturers are strategising on how to consolidate on their penetration of the regional market.
Economy

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The 21st Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), due to hold 3-8 June 2014 in Gabon's capital, Libreville, will focus on Africa?s economic transformation, the bank said in a statement made available to PANA here Monday.
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