Algeria’s state energy company Sonatrach will press ahead with plans to develop shale gas reserves and refuses to yield to protests by local communities and environmental groups, its interim chief executive officer said.

Jordan’s military says its massive airstrikes have destroyed 56 Islamic State positions, including weapons depots and training centers.

According to a report of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF),  a large part of the European Union’s humanitarian assistance destined to the Polisario Tindouf camps has never reached the intended beneficiaries.

Images have been posted online that purportedly show the killing of a Jordanian air force pilot who was detained by Islamic State militants.

Tunisian prime minister-designate Habib Essid proposed a new coalition cabinet on Monday including secularists, Islamists and smaller parties, after politicians rejected a line-up announced last week as unrepresentative.

The special congressional committee probing the Benghazi terror attacks plans to review secretly recorded tapes that reportedly raise questions about then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s role in the 2011 U.S. military intervention in Libya.

A bomb exploded outside a stadium in northern Nigeria on Monday, just minutes after President Goodluck Jonathan left a campaign rally at the site.

Nigerian security forces has killed at least 500 Boko Haram militants when repelling the group’s Sunday attack on the northeastern city of Maiduguri, official and security sources told Xinhua Monday.

Mohamed Fahmy, an Egyptian-Canadian national Al-Jazeera reporter who has been jailed in Egypt on charges including aiding a terrorist group, would be freed in hours, the Qatari channel reported on Tuesday.

Things are looking dicey in Equatorial Guinea for Africa’s top-ranked team and the CAN favourites. Algeria lost their second game at the 2015 Orange Africa Cup of Nations, played Friday (January 23rd) in Mongomo. Ghana captain Asamoah...