Mogadishu (AFP) - Somalia on Tuesday swore in new lawmakers after weeks of voting in a complex political process seen as its most democratic election in nearly five decades, despite significant flaws. The new parliament was inaugurated under tight security in Mogadishu two months after voting began. Lawmakers are expected to elect a president by ...

Algiers (AFP) - Nearly 55,000 people accused of committing terrorist offences have faced legal proceedings in Algeria since the country's devastating civil war in the 1990s, the justice minister has said. It was the first such revelation by the authorities, which use the term terrorists for armed Islamists active in Algeria where the civil w ...

Tunis (AFP) - Fears are mounting in Tunisia that the return of jihadists from foreign battlefields could destabilise a country already reeling from a wave of attacks since its 2011 revolution. Concern has increased after a Tunisian was identified as the suspected attacker who mowed down 11 people with a hijacked truck at a Berlin Christmas marke ...

London (AFP) - Cheetahs are sprinting to extinction due to habitat loss and other forms of human impact, according to a new study out this week which called for urgent action to save the world's fastest land animals. Cheetah numbers in Zimbabwe have plunged by more than 85 percent in 16 years and fewer than 50 individuals survive in Iran, the ...