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AQIM
Islamist militants have staged brazen twin car bomb attacks on an army base and a French-run uranium mine in Niger, killing at least 19 people and taking trainee army officers hostage.
A top al-Qaeda leader has urged Tunisian Salafists to avoid falling to government provocations in order to retain public support, as clashes erupted between them and police.
South Africa will step up collaboration with other countries to fight terrorism and trans-national crime, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele says.
A French Islamist arrested in northern Mali has arrived in Paris and has been handed over to the DCRI intelligence agency for questioning, a security source says.
Morocco's interior ministry says it had arrested two "terrorist" cells in the northern Nador region who were in contact with Islamist extremists in Mali.
The wife and children of a French Islamist arrested in northern Mali have been "evacuated" to Paris, Malian airport and security sources say.
Dozens of French forces have left the northern Malian town of Timbuktu several months after their military operation largely ousted radical Islamic fighters from the area, a French military official says.
Three Algerian auxiliary policemen have been killed in what a security official called a "terrorist" attack, a term authorities use to refer to armed Islamists, a report says.
Malian security services have broken up a cell in the capital Bamako operated by one of the Islamist groups that had controlled northern Mali until a French-led military intervention.
The bomb attack on the French embassy has highlighted the security situation in Libya, with extremists and militias gaining influence.
A car bomb has targeted the French Embassy in the Libyan capital, wounding two French guards and a Libyan teenager.
Spanish police have arrested two suspected members of al-Qaeda's North African branch, one of whom Spanish authorities alleged, praised the Boston Marathon bombings.
French President Francois Hollande has condemned the attack on his country's embassy in Libya, saying France expects the Libyan authorities to "shed light on this unacceptable act".
At least seven French citizens are still held hostage in Africa after the release of seven members of a French family who were kidnapped in Cameroon in February.
Ousted from their major northern strongholds by a French-led military, Mali's Islamist militants are beginning to regroup at home and abroad.
