A joint committee representing Sudan's military leadership and protesters is to hold its first meeting on Saturday to discuss their demand for civilian rule, the leading protest group said. Protest leaders have held several rounds of so far inconclusive talks with the ruling military...

Thousands of anti-government protesters have been camped outside the Sudan army headquarters in Khartoum for three weeks, staying put to demand civilian rule even after Omar al-Bashir quit power on April 11. The sit-in started on April 6 and has grown in size as pressure mounts against the...

Libya's U.N.-recognized government has budgeted up to 2 billion dinars ($1.43 billion) to cover costs of a three-week-old war for control of the capital, such as treatment for the wounded, to be funded without new borrowing, the economy minister said. Ali Abdulaziz Issawi suggested the...

Yemeni authorities have rounded up about 3,000 irregular migrants, predominantly Ethiopians, in the south of the country, "creating an acute humanitarian situation," the U.N. migration agency said Friday. "IOM is deeply concerned about the conditions in which the migrants are being held and...