Africa

Police released two Ugandan presidential challengers late July 9 after they were arrested for planning campaign rallies without permission.

Algeria was mobilising the army on July 9 after 22 people were killed in the worst ethnic clashes between Berbers and Arabs in years, as more details emerged of the violence.

Ugandan police on July 9 arrested two top opposition leaders and presidential candidates hoping to challenge veteran President Yoweri Museveni in elections next year, police said.

At least 22 people have died in fighting between Berbers and Arabs in southern Algeria, the bloodiest toll in two years of frequent clashes between the communities, national news agency APS reported on July 8.

A project to restore 14 historic mausoleums destroyed in Timbuktu three years ago by hardline Islamists is due to finish at the end of July, the Art Newspaper has reported. The news was announced in Bonn, Germany, at the 39th session of UNESCO?s World Heritage Committee, which is scheduled to end today.

The number of South Sudanese civilians sheltering in United Nations bases has risen above 150,000 for the first time in 18 months of civil war, the U.N. said on July 7.

A total of 153,769 civilians are now seeking safety behind the barbed wire of six peacekeeping bases of the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).  

Six tons of Turkey-donated medical equipment and supplies, along with six fully-equipped ambulances, have arrived in Djibouti, the Turkish ambassador to the country said on July 5.

Fearing for their safety in Tunisia after a gunman killed dozens of tourists, sun-seeking Europeans are switching to destinations such as Spain, Bulgaria or even Greece for holidays this year.

Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebi declared a state of emergency in Tunisia, a week after the terrorist attack at a resort in Sousse that killed 39 foreign tourists – thirty from the UK. The state of emergency allows the government to have more flexibility and the army and police have more authority.

Two years after the army deposed president Mohamed Morsi, Egypt is roiled by brazen Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacks in the Sinai Peninsula and brutal government repression that has killed hundreds.