Le Premier ministre tchadien Pahimi Deubet Kalzeubé a présidé la cérémonie d’accueil à Sarh, dans le sud du pays

L’arrêté accordant la licence a été signée par le ministre tchadien des Postes et des NTIC, Daoussa Déby Itno, le 8 avril 2014 à Ndjamena

C’est le bilan de quatre mois de campagne salvatrice de la mission des soldats tchadien au sein de la Misca en Centrafrique

Ibrahim al-Jadhran, qui bloque les terminaux pétroliers de Cyrénaïque depuis août2013, a conclu un accord le 6avril avec les autorités. Mais, selon ses proches, cet accord "ne sera pas vraiment respecté" et n'a été conclu que sous la pression de l'ambassadrice des États-Unis, l'hyperactive Deborah Jones.

Maha Abdelhamid est militante tunisienne, cofondatrice de l'Association de défense des droits des Noirs.

Sans attendre le traditionnel mouvement diplomatique de l'été, quatre nouveaux ambassadeurs de Tunisie vont être nommés.

Un diplomate tunisien a été enlevé jeudi à Tripoli, selon une source des services de sécurité.

La sélection officielle du 67e Festival de Cannes a été présentée jeudi à la presse. Dans la liste des films retenus, le réalisateur mauritanien Abderrahmane Sissako défendra son nouveau film, "Timbuktu, le chagrin des oiseaux".

Kool Food, le jeune producteur industriel de chocolats fait entrer Abraaj à son tour de table. Objectif de la société marocaine : grandir et exporter.

Algerians are voting in elections in which incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who suffered a stroke last year, is seeking a fourth term.

The parents of some of the girls abducted from their school in north-east Nigeria head into the forests in a dangerous search for their daughters.

French troops in Mali free five aid workers who were kidnapped in the north of the country by suspected Islamist militants in February.

Dozens of civilians sheltering in a UN base in the South Sudan city of Bor have been killed in an attack by armed youths, the UN says.

Seules 14 des 129 jeunes filles enlevées lundi par des activistes présumés de la secte islamiste Boko Haram ont recouvré la liberté.

Après les attaques perpétrées à Abuja et dans l'Etat septentrional de Borno, le chercheur Gilles Yabi décrypte l'évolution et la stratégie du groupe islamiste dans le pays le plus peuplé d'Afrique.

Leur enlèvement, en février, avait été revendiqué par le Mouvement pour l'unicité et le djihad en Afrique de l'Ouest, un des groupes alliés à Al-Qaida au Maghreb islamique.

[VOA]The principal of a Nigerian school where 107 girls were abducted Wednesday is denying a military announcement that most of the girls have been recovered....

[SPS]Madrid -The iconic anti-apartheid fighter Andrew Mlangeni, imprisoned with Nelson Mandela for 26 years, announced Wednesday that he will attend the 11th edition of the Western Sahara International Film Festival (FiSahara), to be held in the Wilaya of Dakhla from April 29th to May 04, informed the organizers....

[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz has deplored the violent attack carried out Tuesday evening by Moroccan repression forces against Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of El Aaiun, asking the UN to take urgent steps to protect the Saharawi people....

Polls closed on Thursday evening in an Algerian presidential election that the country?s ailing president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is widely expected to win despite his frail health and rare public appearances....

French troops in Mali have freed five aid workers who were kidnapped in the north of the country in February. The workers were...

NAIROBI - The UN humanitarian agency on Thursday called for immediate cessation of hostilities in South Sudan where a three month conflict has killed thousands of people and displaced over a million others. Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan Toby Lanzer said in a statement received in Nairobi that the devastating cycle of violence and...

By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria#39;s northeast Borno state said on Thursday only 20 of up to 129 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist rebels were back with their parents, casting doubt on a military claim to have freed most of them. The armed forces said in a statement on Wednesday that most of the schoolgirls abducted by Islamist rebels from the Boko Haram group had been freed in a military rescue operation. Monday#39;s mass abduction of the schoolgirls aged between 15 and 18 shocked Nigeria,...

Clashes have erupted in Algeria?s restive Kabylie region between security forces and youths opposed to the presidential election, leaving at least 40 people wounded, sources say....

[UN News]Amid escalating violence in northern and central South Sudan, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned today's attack on civilians and peacekeepers at the UN mission base in Bor, the war-torn capital of Jonglei state, by a mob of armed civilians who forced their way into the facility and opened fire on displaced persons sheltering inside....

[VOA]Abuja, Nigeria -After the worst attack in Abuja's history on Monday, officials say the Nigerian capital has been secured for the World Economic Forum for Africa next month. These comments come amid conflicting statements on the abduction of more than 100 schoolgirls, and ongoing violence in the north. President Goodluck Jonathan summoned his security council....

A mob of armed civilians pretending to be peaceful protesters delivering a petition to the United Nations in South Sudan forced their way into a UN base sheltering some 5,000 civilians and opened fire, the world body said. A UN source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said at least 20 people had been killed and 60 wounded in the...

[IWPR]Kenya - International Justice - ICC -Rights groups warn that counter-terror crackdown will discriminate against Somalis while bringing few tangible security gains....

[VOA]Cairo -Algerians went to the polls to decide who will govern the country for the next five years, as ailing President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika seeks a fourth term. He faces strong opposition from former Prime Minister Ali Benflis....

[VOA]At least two people were killed and more than a dozen wounded when fighting broke out Thursday inside the United Nations compound in Bor, where nearly 5,000 displaced South Sudanese have been sheltered since the country plunged into violence in December....