Italian coastguard come under fire from people traffickers
Italian coastguards have come under fire from people traffickers as they rescued more than 2 000 migrants off the Libyan coast. The attackers were trying to recoup a boat that had been emptied by the rescuers. Kalashnikov-wielding men in a speedboat from Libya, fired on the Italian coastguard taking more than 2 000 mostly young African […]
Egypt takes revenge for Christians’ beheading
Egypt’s taken revenge for the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians by a Libyan offshoot of Islamic State The Libyan government says it helped coordinate the action. In the early morning dark, Egyptian warplanes strafed Islamic States training bases, camps and weapons stores outside the eastern Libyan town of Derna. They struck hours after the terrorists […]
Egyptian Christian beheaded by Islamists
President Abdul Fatah El Sisi says Egyptian Christians beheaded by Islamic State militants will be revenged. A video of the gruesome killings of the hand-cuffed Coptic victims in orange-jump-suits had been posted on the internet. The mass murder by black-suited militants was carried out on the seashore south of Tripoli. Egyptian President Abdul Fatah El […]
Central African leaders meet to fix strategy against Boko Haram
Six African heads of state are at meeting in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde to fix a joint strategy for fighting Boko Haram. They’re meeting under the auspices of the Economic Community of Central African States. Four other countries have sent delegates. Of the central African countries at the meeting, only Chad and Cameroon have […]