Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed’s new government has won a vote of confidence in parliament at a time of tensions between the premier and the president in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. Lawmakers voted late Monday to approve the lineup, which President Beji Caid Essebsi has complained he was ...
Two soldiers were killed and three were injured, two of them seriously, in a blast in northern Burkina Faso, the theatre of a terrorist insurgency, security sources said Tuesday. Their vehicle triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) late Monday on a road near Nassoumbou, near the Malian border, they said. ...