The launch of a transition period in Algeria will turn the protest-hit North Africa country into a "time bomb", an Algerian legal expert has warned. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Amer Rekheila said keeping interim President Abdelkader Bensalah in his post will be the best way forward...

Sudan's ruling military council said Tuesday it will draw up a transitional technocrat government. "We will form a transitional government of technocrats as soon as possible until elections are held," Lieutenant General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the deputy chairman of the Transitional Military...

Algeria's army chief of staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Salah Tuesday accused some parties of wanting a constitutional vacuum, to prolong the country's political crisis, private channel Ennahar TV reported. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down on April 2 after two months of mass...

The United Nations human rights office called on Tuesday for an independent investigation into the death of Egypt’s former President Mohamed Mursi, saying it should encompass all aspects of his treatment during nearly six years in custody. Egypt’s Islamist ex-president was buried in a...