Moroccan authorities say that 15 people have been killed in a landslide that buried their van under 20 meters of earth, leaving no survivors. The dead include a 6-year-old child, according to a local official at the scene of Thursday's tragedy. Heavy rainfall triggered multiple...

Tunisia is gearing up for snap elections as early as September following the death of president Beji Caid Essebsi, amid uncertainty over who could step forward to run the North African country. Essebsi, the country's first head of state elected in nationwide polls, died Thursday at the age...

A member of a recently-formed "dialogue committee" in Algeria said on Friday that the body's mission was to reach general consensus on holding presidential polls as soon as possible.  Earlier on Thursday, the Algerian interim presidency announced a six-member committee of "independent...

Tunisian Parliament speaker Mohamed Ennaceur was sworn in as interim president Thursday, hours after President Beji Caid Essebsi’s death, in a smooth transition of power in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. Under Tunisia’s constitution, the president should assume the presidency for 45 to...

Up to 150 people are feared to have died in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, while another 150 were rescued and are being returned to Libya, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said Thursday. Libya is a hub for migrants, many of whom try to reach Europe in unseaworthy boats....

The speaker of Tunisia’s parliament, Mohamed Ennaceur, said on Thursday said he would be the country’s temporary president, in line with the constitution. In his speech on national television, Ennaceur also called for unity after the death of Tunisia’s 92-year-old president, Beji Caid...

Sudanese protest leaders and their rebel partners have ended their differences over a power-sharing deal signed with the country's military rulers, vowing to work jointly for peace, a leading protest group said Thursday. On July 17, the umbrella protest movement signed a power-sharing...

 Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi has died at the age of 92, the presidency announced on Wednesday, following a number of health scares. "Tunisian President Mohammed Beji Essebsi has passed away on 25 July, 2019 at 10:25am in the military hospital in Tunisia, may he be...

The Sudanese Army on Wednesday foiled a coup attempt plotted by Lt. General Hashim Abdul Motalib Ahmed, the country's head of the joint chiefs of staff.   Earlier on July 11, Sudan's ruling military council had announced that it thwarted a military coup, just days after the...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they launched a drone attack on King Khalid airbase in Saudi Arabia on Thursday. In a statement, rebel spokesman Yahya Sarei said the attack targeted aprons where fighter jets are located at the base in the southwestern city of Khamis Mushait. "The attack was...

Tunisia's president was brought to a military hospital Thursday in the capital, Tunis. Beji Caid Essebsi was hospitalized over health concerns, said a source on condition of anonymity. No other information was shared about Essebsi's health. The 92-year-old president was taken to a...

Two Sudanese military officials say security forces have arrested at least a dozen people, including high-ranking army officers for allegedly plotting a coup against the country's ruling generals. The officials said Wednesday the arrested officers worked for Sudan's military and the...

Libya's coast guard says it has intercepted around four dozen Europe-bound migrants off the Mediterranean coast and taken them to a detention center that was bombed earlier this month. Spokesperson Ayoub Gassim says a rubber boat carrying 38 migrants, mostly Egyptians, was stopped Tuesday...

Every morning, Hadil Mahmoud, a 13-year-old Yemeni girl, used to practice her favorite hobby of climbing trees near her home in the central Taiz province.  One day, a random shell struck nearby as the Yemeni child was moving up a tree in her hometown of Al-Arari in the war-ravaged...

Sudanese protester Walid Abdelrahim was shot dead last month in Khartoum but for his mother he is still alive -- thanks to a colourful mural of his smiling face on a wall of their home. "The painting keeps him alive," said Maiyssa Omar, her voice choking as she talked of her son, who was...

The war in Yemen can be stopped because the warring sides still support a U.N. peace deal brokered in Stockholm last December, U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday. The four-year war between the Iran-aligned Houthi movement and a Saudi-backed coalition supporting the Yemeni...

A Beirut judge issued arrest warrants in absentia Tuesday against 10 Libyan defendants, including the son of the late ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, in the case of the disappearance of Imam Musa Sadr and his companions.

Hundreds of Sudanese university students chanting "civilian rule, civilian rule" rallied in downtown Khartoum on Tuesday seeking justice for fellow pupils killed in months of political unrest. The rally follows a power sharing deal signed last week between protest leaders and army rulers,...

A leading rights group is criticizing Egyptian authorities for imposing repressive probation measures on pro-democracy activists recently released from prison. The measures require those released to report every day to the police and spend the night at the nearest police station for months,...

The United Arab Emirates, part of a Saudi-led military coalition, is not leaving war-torn Yemen despite an ongoing drawdown and redeployment of Emirati forces, a UAE minister has said. "Just to be clear, the UAE and the rest of the coalition are not leaving Yemen," minister of state for...