Doctors have advised Morocco’s King Mohammed VI to rest for several days to recover from a viral lung infection that forced him to miss a remembrance ceremony in Paris for France’s late president Jacques Chirac, the palace said on Sunday. In a rare statement on the health of the...

Algeria's army said Sunday it would not back any candidate in a presidential election set for December to choose a successor to Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Mass protests this spring forced Bouteflika to step down after 20 years in power, leaving the army as the main player in Algerian politics....

Dozens demonstrated in the centre of Sudan's capital Khartoum on Sunday, calling for the release of a Sudanese student reportedly detained in Egypt amid a crackdown on rare protests against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Scattered rallies against Sisi broke out on September 20 after viral...

 Egyptian security forces have killed 15 suspected militants in a shootout in restive north Sinai, the interior ministry said Sunday. A militant group was "planning hostile acts targeting military and police forces...in order to destabilize national security," the ministry said in a...