Led by president Jacob Zuma, the ruling party won 65.9 per cent of the vote in the last general election, giving it 264 seats in parliament.

Foreign diplomats in Libya from several Arab and Western missions are reportedly fleeing the country amid a string of recent attacks targeting envoys and Libyan politicians, diplomatic sources said Saturday.

Algeria’s ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, running for re-election, is pushed in a wheelchair next Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been in power for 15 years and is confined to a wheelchair, has won a fourth term...

Armed attackers have stormed a United Nations base in South Sudan and killed nearly 50 civilians sheltering inside.

King Mohammed VI of Morocco started on Wednesday a historic visit to the Saharan provinces. Today, the Moroccan monarch attended the Friday prayer at the Asslam mosque in the city of Dakhla, the region’s second largest city...

Two people were killed and three others injured in the last 24 hours during sectarian clashes in the desert province of Ghardaia, 6,000 km southeast of Algiers, a local medical source told Xinhua Saturday.

The Moroccan King Mohammed VI held on Saturday a phone conversation with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, says a release of the Royal office.

Ivorian Minister of Trade and Handicrafts, Jean- Louis Billon has considered Morocco an example of success in crafts.

The African Union (AU) has welcomed the launch of the South Sudan SPLM intra-party dialogue forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Two Libyan oil terminals have reopened, after rebels agreed partially to lift their oil blockade in a deal reached with the government. The terminals of Zueitina and Hariga in the east are now in government hands, the...