Briefs Bound

Saudi Arabia on Monday put to death five people convicted of carrying out a deadly attack on a house of worship, state media said, the biggest group execution this year. The five men -- four Saudis and one Egyptian national -- were tried for an attack that killed five...

Racial tensions in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax flared into violence targeting migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, dozens of whom were forcibly evicted from the city or fled, witnesses said Wednesday. Amid the disturbances late Tuesday, police detained some...

By Adrien Marotte and Soulé Dia: Relief swept Senegal and its supporters on Tuesday after President Macky Sall declared he would not seek a contested third term in office, a move that defused fears of bloodshed. Reactions at home and abroad were almost universally...

Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar, who backs the politically-split country's eastern administration, has threatened military action unless oil revenues are divided fairly by the end of August. The country sits on Africa's biggest oil reserves but the wedge...