North Africa

Archaeologists have discovered three tombs that date back around 2,000 years in southern Egypt. They were found in burial grounds in the Al-Kamin al-Sahrawi area in Minya province, south of Cairo.

Libyan militiamen have abducted one of the country's former prime ministers in the capital, Tripoli, witnesses said on Monday.

The head of the panel that drafted Egypt's 2014 constitution, possibly the most progressive in the country's history, has denounced calls to amend the charter, saying parliament should focus instead on implementing it.

The head of Egypt's railway authority, Medhat Shousha, has resigned following a train collision in Alexandria that killed at least 41 people, Transport Minister Hisham Arafat told reporters on Sunday.

More than 20 people are reported to have died in a train collision in Egypt's Alexandria on Friday.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for killing four Egyptian policemen in restive northern Sinai peninsula.

Egypt's official statistics agency says the country's inflation rate has jumped to 33% in July - up from 29.8% in June.

Two Egyptian policemen were killed and one wounded when a group of wanted criminals opened fire on security forces in a village north of Cairo on Tuesday, state newspaper Al-Ahram reported.

Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is to invest more than $800m in hotels in Egypt, the investment ministry in Cairo said on Monday.

Sudan is planning to split a camp housing tens of thousands of South Sudanese refugees into three separate units after a wave of violence,...