
British Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt is to pay a two-day visit to Algeria in an apparent bid to hunt for new natural resources for Britain through greater security cooperation with Algiers.

British Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt is to pay a two-day visit to Algeria in an apparent bid to hunt for new natural resources for Britain through greater security cooperation with Algiers.

A French soldier has been killed in clashes with fighters in a mountainous region of northern Mali.

A clash has left “many casualties” near the border between Sudan and South Sudan, a report says.

The United Nations food agency has warned of a food crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), which experienced a month-long insurgency which ended in January.

Fire has broken out again at the Sudanese arms factory that was recently targeted by an Israeli airstrike , Sudan’s army says.