A night-time curfew was imposed on Monday in four towns in Sudan’s North Kordofan state, including its capital Al-Obeid, after five protesters were shot dead at a rally, authorities said. The curfew will be effective from 9:00 pm (1900 GMT) to 6:00 am for an indefinite period, the office of ...
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country’s first democratically elected leader, died Thursday at the age of 92, his office said. The veteran politician, the oldest head of state after Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, came to power in 2014, three years after the uprising which toppled longtime despot ...
