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A Moroccan court has jailed a lecturer for a year for sexually harassing a female student, a lawyer said Saturday, as a "sex for grades" scandal rocks the kingdom's academic institutions. "The defendant was found guilty of sexual harassment by the Tangiers court of...

Denmark will partially suspend its development aid to Mali and Burkina Faso, its foreign ministry said on Friday, intensifying pressure on the military juntas running the impoverished West African countries. The decision came after Mali forced Danish troops...

Moroccan authorities plan to survey abandoned and unauthorized wells across the country, the official MAP news agency reported Thursday, after the death of a boy trapped in a borehole sparked global attention. The boy, Rayan, had fallen down a narrow 32-metre...

Twelve people have been killed in clashes between herders and farmers in southern Chad, where ethnic friction over land is common, the authorities said Friday. "A herder who was moving his animals was killed by farmers on Wednesday and in reprisal, herders armed with...