A journalist arrested last week as he covered Algeria's weekly anti-regime demonstration said Monday that he was beaten, insulted and humiliated for eight hours. Mustapha Bendjama, editor-in-chief of local daily Le Provincial, told AFP he was slapped and punched by members of police...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi left hospital Monday in "normal health" and the 92-year-old leader will resume work in the coming days, the president's son said on his Facebook page. Essebsi, a major player in the North African country's transition to democracy after a 2011 revolution,...

Egyptian officials say militants have stormed a post office in the northern Sinai Peninsula and seized around $6,000 in local currency. The officials say the attack took place Monday in al-Rouda village, where a 2017 militant assault on a mosque killed more than 300 people. The...

Sudan must at all costs avoid tensions between a powerful paramilitary unit that controls Khartoum and the regular army or risk more instability following a military coup in April, leading opposition figure Sadiq al-Mahdi said. An influential former prime minister, Mahdi called on...