A court Wednesday sentenced Karim Tabbou, a key figure in Algeria's anti-government protest movement, to six months in prison for "undermining national unity", a lawyer said. Tabbou, who heads the small, unregistered opposition party UDS, has been detained since September. The...

An Egyptian court sentenced one of the leading activists of the 2011 "Arab Spring" uprising to a one-year prison term Wednesday after convicting him of spreading false news, a judicial source and a lawyer said. Zyad Elelaimy, a prominent rights lawyer and former member of parliament already...

Algeria’s prime minister said on Tuesday the country faced an unprecedented “multi-dimensional crisis” and urged people to make fewer demands of the government and reduce their street presence. The comments by Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad were an apparent reference to a year of...

Egyptian authorities said Tuesday that 25 people who had intially tested positive for the novel coronavirus during a Nile River cruise had since tested negative. Health Minister Hala Zayed told journalists in Cairo that tests for a total of 26 people had "changed from positive to negative"...