Algeria’s supreme court on Thursday remanded former prime minister Abdelmalek Sellal in custody over allegations of corruption, state TV reported. Sellal is one of the closest associates of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be detained since protests broke out in February, demanding...

A US special envoy was set to meet Sudan's top military ruler Thursday to push for a "peaceful" solution to the standoff between protesters and generals following a deadly crackdown on demonstrators. The diplomatic push comes after protesters demanding civilian rule called off a nationwide...

Attacks on two oil tankers on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman left one ablaze and both adrift, shipping firms said, driving oil prices up 4% over worries about Middle East supplies. The Front Altair was on fire in waters between Gulf Arab states and Iran after an explosion that a source...

Shops and restaurants began to reopen in Sudan’s capital Wednesday after demonstrators called off a nationwide civil disobedience campaign and agreed to new talks, though many residents remained indoors after last week’s deadly crackdown. The apparent breakthrough in the standoff between...

Planes from the Arab military coalition fighting in Yemen bombed areas around the capital Sanaa Thursday, residents and the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said. On Wednesday, the coalition vowed to respond firmly to a Houthi missile attack on a civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia that...

Algeria's former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia appeared before the Supreme Court Wednesday as part of a raft of anti-graft investigations opened into senior figures since President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika stepped down, state television reported. Ouyahia, who left the government in March as...

The top U.S. diplomat for Africa was due in Khartoum on Wednesday to join an international push to salvage a deal between Sudan’s military rulers and opposition groups two months after the overthrow of former President Omar al-Bashir. The visit comes after an Ethiopian envoy said the ruling...

Amnesty and Human Rights Watch warned U.N. peacekeepers Tuesday against withdrawing from Sudan at a time when the Janjaweed militia is not only keeping up war crimes in Darfur but also taking its "despicable brutality" to Khartoum. "It's hard to imagine a worse time to decide to close...

Protest leaders have agreed to end their civil disobedience campaign launched after a crackdown on demonstrators and resume talks with Sudan's ruling generals, an Ethiopian mediator said Tuesday. "The Alliance for Freedom and Change agreed to end the civil disobedience (campaign) from...

In the last two weeks Dr Asmahan Ahmed has seen a surge in suspected cholera cases arriving at her health center in Abs, a small, Houthi-held town in northwest Yemen. “Every day there are 30-50 cases, no fewer. Suddenly it became like this,” she said in the 15-bed diarrhea treatment center....

Libya's coast guard says it has intercepted at least 60 Europe-bound migrants, including a woman, off the country's Mediterranean coast. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said Tuesday that a rubber boat carrying the migrants - overwhelmingly identified as African nationals but including five from...

A protest strike kept businesses shut and residents indoors in the Sudanese capital Tuesday as a top US diplomat prepared a visit to press the ruling generals to halt a bloody crackdown. Protest leaders stepped up the pressure on the generals by announcing they would soon release a list of...

Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi has received UN assurances about the implementation of UN-brokered deal on the strategic Hudaydah province, according to his office on Tuesday.  "Hadi received assurances from UN Secretary-General [Antonio Guterres] that his envoy Martin...

Sudan’s opposition plans to nominate eight members of a transitional council and name a prominent economist to head a government, a leader in the alliance of protesters and opposition groups said on Monday. The plan, which appears to build on a proposal by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy...

A top US diplomat will head to Sudan this week to urge an end to a bloody crackdown on protesters, Washington said Monday, as a nationwide civil disobedience campaign challenged the African country's ruling military council. Tibor Nagy, the US assistant secretary of state for African...

Algerian authorities Monday detained an automobile tycoon linked to ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on charges of corruption, one of his lawyers said. Mahieddine Tahkout "was detained along with his son and two of his brothers on charges of corruption and money laundering", the lawyer...

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Monday expressed support for the UN envoy for Yemen, a UN spokesperson said, amid a falling-out between the envoy and the Saudi-backed president of Yemen. Saudi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf met with the UN's political chief Rosemary DiCarlo in Riyadh...

Landline internet connections were down across Khartoum on Monday, creating a digital blackout in the Sudanese capital a week after mobile online services were largely cut following a deadly crackdown on protesters. Internet lines from the country's main provider Sudatel stopped working in...

The UN Security Council on Monday renewed a green light to a European Union mission to combat migrant trafficking and arms smuggling off Libya's coast amid calls for action to cut the flow of weapons. The council voted unanimously to extend authorization of Operation Sophia until June...

Several shops opened and buses plied the streets Monday as life limped back to the Sudanese capital on the second day of a nationwide civil disobedience campaign called to pressure the ruling military into handing over power. The timid return to normalcy came as the ruling military council...