Algerian army kills six militants in counter-terrorism operation

Morocco's royal palace on Tuesday declared October 31 starting next year as a national holiday marking the adoption of a U.N. Security Council resolution backing the North African country's autonomy plan for Western Sahara.

Sudan’s pro-army government has called on the international community to take urgent and concrete action against the United Arab Emirates, which it accuses of supplying weapons and fighters to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group locked in a devastating civil war with the national army since April 2023.

At a clinic in Sudan's North Darfur where dozens of bony children lie on cots and men with bandaged wounds await surgery, patients described a desperate escape from the city of al-Fashir as it was captured last week by a paramilitary force.