Algeria has registered its first coronavirus death, state radio reported on Thursday. It did not report any increase in the 20 cases confirmed there so far, mostly in the town of Blida. Algeria said this week it would ban economic, social and political gatherings, though it is not clear...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been consulting with U.N. Security Council members about appointing former Algerian Foreign Minster Ramtane Lamamra as his new Libya envoy, diplomats said on Wednesday. His current Libya envoy Ghassan Salame quit last week due to stress,...

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...