Five candidates will run in Algeria's presidential election next month, including two former prime ministers, the head of the election authority said on Saturday, amid mass protests rejecting the vote.  The authorities have repeatedly said the Dec. 12 vote would be the only way to get...

The Congolese medical authorities said Saturday they had received the first shipment of a new Ebola vaccine as the central African country battles its second deadliest outbreak of the virus this decade. The health ministry for the eastern province of North Kivu said that a preliminary batch...

At least 53 soldiers and one civilian have been killed in an attack on an army post in northern Mali, the government said, in one of the deadliest strikes against the West African country's military in recent memory. The authorities first reported the attack in Indelimane, Menaka region, on...

 Egypt's Daesh (ISIS) affiliate, Sinai Province, has sworn allegiance to the new leader named by the group following the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the affiliate said on Telegram Saturday. Sinai Province, which has waged an insurgency against the Egyptian state, posted pictures of...