A former Algerian police chief, General Abdelghani Hamel, once considered a pillar of the regime of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been

Sudan’s military rulers and opposition agreed in principle on Saturday to the formation of a joint body to lead a transition from 30 years of autocratic rule by Omar al-Bashir, but not on the new council’s make-up, two sources said.

More than 150 children -- some as young as 11 -- were among 220 people rescued from sex and labor trafficking rings in West Africa, Interpol

How do you run a digital business when your country’s president has shutdown the internet? The social media blackout in Chad began in March

Sudanese judges will march from the Supreme Court in Khartoum to a sit-in outside the Defence Ministry, joining for the first time the anti-government protests, one of the judges said yesterday.

Around 70 people have been killed in devastating floods in South Africa, an official said yesterday, while 1,000 people have been

Devastating floods in South Africa have left 51 dead and forced more than a thousand people from their homes, according to an updated toll issued Wednesday as President Cyril Ramaphosa flew to the deluged region.

Algeria’s richest man Issad Rebrab has been detained in jail on the public prosecutor’s orders, state media reported yesterday a day after

Thirteen people were killed and 16 injured when part of a church collapsed on worshippers following a violent storm near the eastern

Liberian President George Weah has been barred from his office for five days by two black snakes that slithered into the building this week, authorities say.

Protest leaders yesterday announced plans to unveil a civilian body to take over from Sudan’s ruling military council as crowds of demonstrators kept up the pressure outside army headquarters and Washington said it will send an envoy to encourage the transition.

Boko Haram fighters torched a village in Cameroon’s troubled Far North Region overnight and killed 11 civilians in their sleep, security sources told AFP yesterday.

More than fifty Boko Haram fighters have been killed in an attack on a multi-national force in northeastern Nigeria, a military

Sudan’s military rulers have transferred ousted president Omar al-Bashir to prison, a family source said yesterday, as doctors marched through

The US military confirmed Monday that it had killed the second-ranking Islamic State leader in Somalia in an air strike.

At least 174 people have been killed and 758 wounded in the battle for control over the Libyan capital Tripoli, the World Health Or-ganization said yesterday.

The Sudanese group that led protests against deposed President Omar al-Bashir called for the transitional military council that has taken power to be disbanded and for a new interim civilian ruling council to be formed.

Egypt’s parliament, packed with loyalists of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is set to vote on changes to the constitution that could keep the former military chief in power until 2030.

Sudan’s military rulers faced pressure from demonstrators and Western governments to hand power to a new civilian government yesterday as activists warned of an attempt to disperse a 10-day-old mass protest outside army headquarters.

The new head of Sudan's military council says a civilian government would be formed after consultations with the opposition and the transition period would last for a maximum of two years, as protesters kept up pressure for rapid change.