At least three people were killed and 15 wounded when a car bomb hit a funeral of former senior military commander in the east Libyan city of Benghazi, medical and military sources said. The funeral at Benghazi's Huwari cemetery was for Khalifa Mismari, the assistant commander of...

Algeria's Supreme Court Wednesday placed former Industry Minister Youcef Yousfi in custody over alleged corruption, state television reported. Yousfi became the latest senior official to be detained in anti-graft investigations since protests broke out earlier this year demanding the...

Algerian army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah reaffirmed Wednesday support for interim President Abdel-Kader Bensalah, whose term ended July 9 but who remains head of state in the absence of elections. A presidential election planned for early July was scrapped, de facto extending Bensalah's...

The Khartoum district of Burri was a fulcrum of the uprising against Sudan’s former leader Omar al-Bashir and the generals who replaced him, its residents beaten and killed as they rallied for freedom and justice. Now that a three-year transition deal has been struck to deliver on their...