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Prosecutors in Egypt charged five people after a teenager committed suicide over alleged blackmail using doctored images -- the second such incident within weeks. Heidi, 15, took her own life earlier in February, local media reported. Her case echoes that of Basant...

An Egyptian businessman was charged on Saturday with "human trafficking" and "sexual assault" a month after he was arrested over accusations that he abused seven girls in an orphanage he founded. Media and real estate tycoon Mohamed el-Amin was arrested on January 8...

Mali's military-dominated authorities on Saturday published a bill designed to further shore up the powers of junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita. The text, adopted by a cabinet meeting late Friday, provides for the "abolishment of the post of vice-president (of the...

Mosques held prayers for rain on Friday across the parched North African kingdom of Morocco where farmers are battling an acute drought. King Mohammed VI ordered all the country's mosques to hold prayers "calling on God for rain", the religious affairs ministry said...