(Le secrétaire général de l’ONU, Ban Ki-moon a salué, hier, l’engagement de l’Algérie pour la paix et la résolution des graves crises couvant dans toute la région, en Libye notamment, et dont la menace de débordement demeure persistante.)

(Le ministère marocain de l’Intérieur a annoncé jeudi que des djihadistes arrêtés il y a deux semaines s’apprêtaient à utiliser “des substances toxiques et biologiques mortelles” dans un “projet terroriste” contre le royaume.)

(Police in Kenya were on a high alert Monday following intelligence reports of planned terror attacks on main airports in Nairobi and Mombasa.)

(Student protests in South Africa are taking on an increasingly violent tone following clashes between black and white students at several universities this week. Academic activities are suspended indefinitely.)

(Ugandans went to the polls on Thursday to choose presidential and parliamentary candidates in an election riddled with irregularities even before voting began.)

(The United Nations is investigating fresh allegations of sexual abuse in Central African Republic, where peacekeepers have been hit with numerous charges of sexual abuse over the past year, a U.N. spokesman said on Monday.)

(The Ugandan military said Thursday that a senior commander in warlord Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army had surrendered, a move analysts said showed disarray in rebel ranks and strengthened the possibility of Kony’s capture.)

(Des affrontements entre groupes armés dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo ont causé la mort d’au moins 15 personnes dimanche. La région est le théâtre depuis plusieurs semaines de vives tensions ethniques.)

(A French general has defended France’s response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, saying his troops did not give so much as a bullet to the perpetrators and did not immediately grasp the scale of the killing, sources say.)