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Crowds took to the streets again in Nigeria's largest cities on Monday as the death toll rose in snowballing protests sparked by police brutality.  Amnesty International said five people had died since the start of the weekend, taking the overall number of fatalities...

Several years ago, the Algerian authorities turned a blind eye to the acquisition of a luxury hotel in Barcelona by disgraced Algerian oligarch Ali Haddad. It did so because the regime at its highest echelon was deeply tied to the world of crooked businessmen that...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged Algeria to immediately release two men imprisoned for homosexuality and to void the convictions of all 44 people prosecuted in the same case. On September 3, an Algerian court sentenced two men to three years' jail and 42 people to...

French prosecutors said Friday that they had slapped criminal conspiracy charges on former president Nicolas Sarkozy over claims he used Libyan cash for his 2007 election campaign. The charge for "membership in a criminal conspiracy" was brought on Monday, the...