The Sudanese government and nine rebel groups Saturday signed an agreement on a roadmap towards ending the bloody conflict in the Darfur region. The deal outlines different issues the parties will need to negotiate during the latest round of talks in Juba. "We believe this is an...

Cyprus on Saturday criticised Turkey's twin strategy of wading deeper into Libya's civil war while also claiming energy-rich maritime territories in the Mediterranean. Tensions are on the rise between Turkey on the one hand and EU members Greece and Cyprus on the other in a conflict over...

Algeria's president Abdelmadjid Tebboune named Abdelaziz Djerad, a political analyst and university professor, as the country's new prime minister on Saturday, state TV reported.  A former diplomat and presidential advisor, Djerad teaches political science at the University of...

A massive car bomb exploded in a busy area of the Somali capital Mogadishu Saturday, leaving at least 76 people dead and scores injured, an ambulance official said. The blast occurred in a busy area of the city where traffic is heavy because of a security checkpoint and a tax office....

Algeria's newly elected President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has chaired a rare meeting of the country's top security body to discuss contingency plans for a threatened Turkish military intervention in neighboring Libya. The High Security Council met Thursday and "discussed the situation in the...

Two civilians were killed and eight injured on Thursday in an airstrike by eastern Libyan forces on north-western Libya, according to local hospital officials. Jets loyal to military commander Khalifa Haftar bombed Az-Zawiyah city, according to Az-Zawiyah teaching hospital. Earlier on...

A Moroccan YouTuber was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for "insulting the king" in a video broadcast on social networks, his lawyer said. In a separate case, a Moroccan journalist and activist was charged and detained over a tweet that had criticised a court decision, his...

Yemen's Houthis accused France on Wednesday of providing arms and logistics to the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia fighting the rebel group in the war-ravaged country. "France has killed and injured more than 38 Yemenis by artillery shelling in Al-Raqou market in Manbeh border district...

President Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that Turkey will send troops to Libya now that the north African country requested it, and he will present deployment legislation to the Turkish parliament in January. Erdogan visited Tunisia Wednesday to discuss cooperation for a possible ceasefire in...

Turkey believes that Tunisia will contribute to efforts to promote stability in its eastern neighbor Libya, Turkey’s president said on Wednesday. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Tunisian counterpart Kais Saied during a surprise visit to Tunisia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Tunisia Wednesday in a surprise visit for talks with his Tunisian counterpart, his office said, in the first visit by a head of state since Tunisian presidential elections in the autumn. The visit comes as Turkey has ramped up efforts to strike...

The funeral of Algeria's powerful army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah got underway Wednesday as his remains arrived at the People's Palace, images broadcast by state TV showed. The wooden coffin containing the body of Gaid Salah, who died of a heart attack Monday aged 79, arrived at 0630 GMT,...

Layla Mohammed barely had time to gather her children's belongings before fleeing their southern Tripoli home when shelling targeted the Libyan capital's outskirts earlier this year. For months she moved her family between apartments as soaring rents in the crowded city exhausted her...

Thousands of Algerian students protested on Tuesday, pressing their demands for wholesale change despite calls for a pause in their rallies after the sudden death of the country’s powerful army chief. They chanted “No dialogue”, rejecting the new president’s offer of talks, and said they...

Turkey may need to draft a bill to allow for troop deployment to Libya and its parliament is working on the issue, Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Tuesday, after Ankara signed a military cooperation agreement with Tripoli last month. “There might be a need for an authorization...

A dozen humanitarian organizations in war-torn southern Yemen suspended their operations following a string of targeted attacks, the U.N. said late Monday. Unknown assailants fired rocket-propelled grenades at three aid organizations in the southwestern province of Dhale over the weekend,...

One year since a ceasefire was reached in Yemen's western province of Al-Hudaydah between the government and Houthi rebels, efforts to save the deal from total failure have been underway by the UN's special envoy for Yemen. The deal -- brokered by the UN and signed on Dec. 13, 2018, in...

Tunisia's prime minister-designate Habib Jemli will form a government made up of independents who do not represent political parties, he said at a news conference Monday. Jemli, who was nominated as prime minister by the moderate Islamist Ennahda party last month after it took most seats in...

Libya’s forces based in the country’s east said Monday they have released a vessel with Turkish crew members seized over the weekend amid heightened tensions in the eastern Mediterranean over a contentious maritime border deal involving Tripoli and Ankara. Ahmed al-Mosmari, a spokesman for...

Three people were injured Monday in a rocket attack by forces aligned with eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar east of Tripoli, the UN-recognized government said.    One of those injured was in a critical condition in the attack that targeted residential neighborhoods in the...