Zimbabweans went to the polls on Wednesday to elect a president, parliament members and local councillors. The presidential voting will largely be a showdown between veteran President Robert Mugabe, who has led the country for the past...

A Tunisian police union has unveiled the existence of a “parallel” police force within the country’s interior ministry, the official TAP press agency reported on Tuesday. A list of 15 officers implicated in corruption cases were released...

European Union (EU) foreign policy Chief Catherine Ashton’s talks with Egypt’s deeply divided factions are likely to push up the national reconciliation, and swiftly put an end to violence, analysts said.

Moroccan king Mohammed VI ordered the release of 48 Spanish inmates sentenced by Moroccan courts, in response to a request by Spanish Monarch during his recent visit to the North African country, a statement by the royal...

From July 25 to July 27, Macky Sall, president of Senegal, will begin an official state visit to Morocco and will be received by King Mohammed VI in Casablanca. This visit comes four months and ten days...

About 100 inmates out of more than 1,100 escaped convicts who fled during a prison riot in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi have been recaptured, according to officials. The prisoners were retaken on Sunday, the day...

Kidnappers in southern Somalia have freed two aid workers of the Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) who were abducted in 2011 from a refugee camp in northern Kenya, MSF said Thursday in a statement.

The future of Egypt remains full of uncertainties as supporters and opponents of ousted President Mohamed Morsi are still deeply divided. The military gave a 48-hour ultimatum Thursday for Islamists to join the national reconciliation dialogue.

The Obama administration said on Friday it plans to repatriate two inmates to Algeria from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, resuming the transfer of detainees from the controversial prison for the first time in nearly...

King Juan Carlos of Spain led a delegation of Spanish government officials and business leaders to Morocco this week. Ways to improve economic and security collaborations topped the agenda of the 3-day state visit, which ended on...