North Africa

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has called on the United Nations to take "urgent measures" following months of tensions with the Polisario independence movement in...

Morocco is reported to have applied to join the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Kuwait News agency reported that the application was...

Christian families and students fled Egypt's North Sinai province in droves on Friday after Islamic State killed the seventh member of their community in just three weeks.

The commander of the United States Africa Command — which oversees military operations across Africa — has told VOA that the only way to...

Eastern Libya has banned men and women between the ages of 18 and 45 from travelling abroad without permission. The region's military chief of staff,...

The trial of a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fell short of international standards and the appeals court should review the sentence...

The bodies of 74 migrants have been found washed up on a beach near the western Libya city of Zawiya, a Red Crescent spokesman said on Tuesday.

The Algerian presidency has announced that the official visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been postponed due to what they described as the...

Algerian, Egyptian and Tunisian foreign ministers met on Sunday in Tunis, Tunisia to discuss ways of ending the Libyan crisis.The initiative proposed by Tunisian...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on a two-day visit to Algeria starting Monday. She is scheduled to hold talks with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.The topics...