While uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East have been quelled by deadly force, Algerian authorities are on the way to becalming a powerful protest movement without a shot fired - at least for now. Thousands still march, but protests are smaller than those that toppled the...

French President Emmanuel Macron accused his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan of failing "to keep his word", given with other world leaders, to end foreign meddling in Libya. "We have seen in recent days Turkish ships accompanying Syrian mercenaries arriving on Libyan soil," Macron...

Sudan suspects that two of its citizens who returned to the country from China are infected with the new coronavirus, the information minister told Reuters. One of the pair, a man and a woman, had been in the region of the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus, Said Faisal...

At least two children were killed and two others injured on Tuesday when forces loyal to renegade commander Khalifa Haftar targeted a school compound in the capital Tripoli, according to the UN-recognized government. The wounded children have sustained threatening injuries, said a statement...