Sudan's first ever women's club football league kicked off Monday, with two teams clashing at a Khartoum stadium as crowds of fans and diplomats cheered. The championship, which involves 21 clubs, would have seemed unlikely just months ago when long time Islamist ruler Omar al-Bashir was in...

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group said they will release 350 prisoners, including three Saudi Arabians, Monday under the supervision of the United Nations. The statements by the head of the Houthis' prisoner affairs committee, carried by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV, said the individuals were...

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....