The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor requested help from the United Nations Security Council Wednesday to arrest three fugitives in Libya, including military strongman Khalifa Haftar and a son of the late leader Moammar Gadhafi. During a U.N. Security Council meeting,...

Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have failed again to make progress on their Nile dispute as Ethiopia works to complete a massive upstream dam, an Egyptian official said Tuesday. Egypt fears the Renaissance Dam will cut into its share of the river, which provides virtually all the freshwater for the...

Khalifa Haftar, commander of Libyan forces backed by the Tobruk-based parliament, has announced the launch of a military offensive to capture Libya's northeastern city of Derna. Derna was captured by the Shura Council of Mujahideen after the expulsion of Daesh from the city in 2014....

Tunisians began on Sunday to vote in the country’s first local election since a popular uprising ousted autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.   Polling stations opened at 8:00 a.m. (0700 GMT) across the North African country.   "We vote to improve municipal...