Algeria's biggest union urged President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Tuesday to seek a fifth term in office in a further sign that the veteran leader will run in next year's elections in the North African oil producer. "I will deliver the request for a fifth term to Bouteflika's interior...

At least 15 African migrants died Sunday when their boat trying to reach Europe capsized off the Algerian coast, a coast guard official said. Coast guard and civil protection authorities rescued 19 of 34 people on board, state news agency APS said. The boat sank off the coast of...

Algeria expects to get more illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa after the European Union made it more difficult to reach Europe by boat, a senior official in the country's interior ministry said on Thursday. A 2016 EU agreement with Turkey all but closed the sea route to the Greek...

Libya’s speaker of the Tobruk-based parliament said on Tuesday he expects the formation of a unity government by the end of the year. “I expect that by the end of this year, the problems in Libya will be resolved and one unity government will be formed,” Aqila Saleh said at...