Egyptian authorities have detained a Christian accused of posting an image of Islam's prophet on Facebook.
Raids by Egyptian police on rights groups were aimed at intimidating campaigners, the UN human rights body says, calling for an end to "heavy-handed" tactics.
Several Egyptian rights groups are accusing the country’s ruling military council of using "Hosni Mubarak-era repressive tools" in waging an "unprecedented campaign" against pro-democracy organisations.
US demands that Egypt stop raids on non-government groups
Hundreds of former Libyan rebels who helped topple Muammar Gaddafi are filling out applications for jobs with the new government as a first step to disarmament, the interior minister says.
The murder trial of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak has resumed after a three-month hiatus that saw the ousted strongman's fate eclipsed by deadly clashes and an Islamist election victory.
The murder trial of Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak is set to resume after a three-month hiatus that saw the ousted strongman's fate eclipsed by deadly clashes and an Islamist election victory.
An Egyptian court has ordered that forced virginity tests be stopped on female detainees in military prisons.
An Egyptian blogger, who sparked controversy when she posted a nude self-portrait, has asked women who want to remove their veils to send her photographs to publish them online.
The surviving children of Libya's dead dictator Muammar Gaddafi are determined to destabilise the country, NTC shief Mustafa Abdel Jalil says.
Egypt's main Islamist parties have won 65% of votes for party lists in the second round of a historic election for a new parliament.
Hundreds have gathered in Egypt's Tahrir Square ahead of a planned mass rally against the ruling military.
The spokesperson of Egypt's ultraconservative Islamist party says that the group is not opposed to the country's historic peace treaty with Israel.
The Obama administration has pressed its concerns with Egyptian officials over the continuing violence and abuse of female demonstrators in Egypt.
Egyptians have turned out to vote again in the run-off of a staggered election marred by deadly clashes between protesters and security forces.
Thousands of Egyptian women have taken to the streets of Cairo in a mass demonstration against the military's brutality against women during a crackdown on protesters.
Most of the 13 people killed in recent days of anti-military clashes in Cairo have died of gunshot wounds, Egypt's chief forensic doctor has said.
Riot police and protesters have hurled stones at each other and police have fired shots to disperse demonstrators as clashes in Egypt entered a fifth day.
An Islamist group seen as the main opposing force to Morocco's monarchy has suspended its involvement in a movement inspired by revolts in Tunisia and Egypt.
Egypt's ruling military has sought to discredit the pro-democracy movement by lashing out at protesters and questioning their motives and morals.
A Libyan commander who fought Muammar Gaddafi's forces is taking legal action against Britain, alleging it was complicit in his ill-treatment and illegal rendition to Libya.
Egypt's ruling military council, which took power when Hosni Mubarak was ousted, has said it had uncovered a plot to burn down parliament.
One person has been killed in dawn clashes in central Cairo between security forces and protesters demanding an end to military rule in Egypt.
Top US diplomat Hillary Clinton has called on Egyptians to refrain from violence after a third straight day of deadly clashes in Cairo.
Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali is set to submit the lineup of his new cabinet, the first freely elected government since the country's popular uprising.
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has told Libya's leaders they faced a long, hard road in moving on from a dictatorship to a functioning democracy.
Soldiers have baton-charged demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square a day after street clashes killed eight people and wounded more than 300, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.
The UN Security Council have lifted sanctions on Libya's central bank and a key investment bank freeing tens of billions of dollars to ease a post-Gaddafii cash crunch.
Egyptian troops have clashed with protesters against military rule in Cairo, as violence overshadowed the count in the second phase of an election.
Egyptian protesters have set cars alight and threw stones at military police in Cairo after rumours spread that an activist had been detained at a sit-in and badly beaten.
A probe to seize vast assets of deposed leaders Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Zine el Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia has been launched.
Accusations of ballot abuse have flared up as Egyptians vote in the second round of parliamentary elections.
The daughter of slain Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi has asked the International Criminal Court if it will probe the killing of her father and her brother.
Scores of African migrants have fled to Spanish soil in recent days, jamming reception centres to bursting point.
Tunisia's new president has asked the secretary general of the Islamist party that dominated elections to form the next government.
Algeria and Mauritania's leaders have vowed to beef up security in the Sahel region, where Islamist militants are holding a dozen Western hostages.
More than 1 000 Libyans have gathered at a key square in Benghazi to back ruling National Transitional Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil.
Faced with angry calls demanding that NTC chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil quit, the ruling body has decided to make Benghazi the future "economic capital" of Libya.
Egypt's rising Islamists have presented a vision for sin-free tourism: no booze, bikinis, mingling.
About 200 Libyans have gathered in the eastern city of Benghazi - the cradle of uprising against Muammar Gaddafi - to protest against the National Transitional Council and its head Mustafa Abdel Jalil.
Secular activists in Egypt were outflanked in recent parliamentary elections by Islamists, but they say they are digging in for a long battle with the ruling military leadership.
A top US official says that a team of US and Libyan bomb-disposal specialists has secured about 5 000 surface-to-air missiles stockpiled during the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
Tunisia's constituent assembly has adopted a provisional constitution that will allow it to name a government.
President Jacob Zuma has arrived in Nigeria for a working visit to that country, the Presidency has said.
The lawyer of Al-Saadi Gaddafi has denied a plot that he had planned to illegally sneak into Mexico to escape from Libya.
Libya's interim government, under pressure from civilians, faces a tough task to disarm hundreds of former rebels who toppled Muammar Gaddafi's regime and who are now ensuring security on the streets.
The United States continued to send ammunition to Egypt, even as security forces pressed their violent crackdown on protesters there, Amnesty International says.
Libya's attorney general says gunmen attacked and threatened him amid Tripoli's security void.
Egypt's top Islamist party says it had extended its gains in the first elections, amid fresh warnings about the sinking economy from the country's caretaker premier.
Tripoli has set a year-end deadline for revolutionaries to hand over their weapons.
A cultural disaster is threatening Egypt as some of its famous tourist attractions and archaeological sites have become the target of protesters.
Sectarian clashes have broken out in the southern Egyptian province of Assiut after a Christian student posted a drawing of the Muslim prophet on the Internet, officials say.
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was assessed by British Foreign Office officials as dim but "free of any taint of corruption" before he took power in 1981, files have revealed.
Egyptian security forces have stormed the offices of 10 human rights and pro-democracy groups, including several based in the US.
Egyptian police have been searching the Cairo offices of an American and an Egyptian rights group, a spokesperson for Human Rights Watch and the head of one of the watchdogs said.
Egypt's powerful Muslim Brotherhood says it will protect churches during Coptic Christmas in January in a bid to prevent deadly attacks on Christian places of worship.
Amid threats of economic crisis, Morocco's new mammoth mall highlights the economic divides bedevilling it's society.
Libya's rulers are struggling to deal with thousands of civilian fighters who helped oust Muammar Gaddafi and remain organised in armed brigades but now want key roles in the new government.
Egyptian border police have detained 52 African migrants in the past 24 hours after they attempted to cross into southern Israel from the Sinai Peninsula.
An Egyptian court has ordered the release of a prominent blogger detained for his alleged role in deadly sectarian clashes in October.
Libya has celebrated its independence from colonial rule for the first time in four decades, marking a date that Muammar Gaddafi did not recognise.
Supporters of the Egyptian military, which took power after an uprising ousted Hosni Mubarak have held a counter-rally in Cairo.
Five straight days of clashes in Cairo between protestors hostile to Egypt's military rulers and security forces have left 17 people dead.
Egypt's ruling military has escalated its tone against pro-democracy activists, warning of an attempt to "topple the state".
Libyan fighters who took on forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi will be represented in the National Transitional Council, the country's interim chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil has said.
Libyan authorities should grant Saif al-Islam Gaddafi immediate access to a lawyer to help ensure he has due process, Human Rights Watch says.
Algerian troops have crossed into Mali to help government forces combat groups affiliated to al-Qaeda, officials have said.
Volunteers were standing on the back of a pickup truck, rummaging through stacks of rare 200-year-old manuscripts that were little more than charcoal debris.
An impassioned Hillary Clinton has accused Egypt of failing its women as she denounced the stripping and beating of a female protester as "shocking".
Tunisia's newly elected president has called for the country's Jewish population to return.
It will take weeks to rid Libya's streets of the militias that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, Defence Minister Osama Al-Juwali has said.
Morocco's powerful Islamist movement has quit a pro-democracy group, crippling future protests in the country.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has invited international observers to monitor a spring 2012 legislative vote he promised would be the country's most open ever.
UN leader Ban Ki-moon has accused Egyptian security forces of using "excessive" violence against protesters after a third straight day of deadly clashes in Cairo.
Algeria and Niger will launch joint border patrols and boost intelligence-sharing to better fight terror groups and arms trafficking in their vast border desert region.
Egypt's military is using a dramatically heavier hand to crush protests against its rule in nearly 48 hours of continuous fighting in Egypt's capital that has left nine dead.
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta is in Tripoli on the first visit to Libya by a Pentagon chief to study up close the security needs of the new government.
Clashes between Egyptian security forces and protesters against continued military rule have killed eight people and wounded another 299, the health ministry says.
Soldiers stormed an anti-military protest camp outside Egypt's Cabinet building, beating women with sticks and hurling chunks of concrete and glass onto protesters.
A witness says two protesters have been killed by gunfire in clashes on Friday between Egyptian soldiers and anti-military protesters.
The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor says there are serious suspicions that the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a war crime.
Tunisia's new President Moncef Marzouki has called on his compatriots for a six-month political and social truce to sort out the country's deep-rooted economic problems.
Candidates seeking to run in Egypt's presidential election will need the support of 30 members of parliament or 30 000 citizens, according to a draft of a presidential election law.
Egyptians are returning to polling stations in a phased election likely to give Islamists the biggest bloc in a parliament.
An Egyptian military court has sentenced a blogger who criticised the army to two years in prison after he went on a hunger strike to protest an initial sentence.
Tunisia's Hamadi Jebali, the number two in the moderate Islamist Ennahda party that won elections, has been tasked with forming the country's new government.
Islamists who swept to victory in the first stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections are looking to consolidate their winning streak in a second round of voting.
Around 500 disgruntled protesters from Benghazi have demonstrated for a second day against the Libya's new rulers.
Rights activist and former opposition leader Moncef Marzouki is Tunisia's first elected president since the north African country's revolution sparked the Arab Spring.
Mali has arrested 4 suspects thought to be involved in the kidnapping of 2 French citizens.
An official with Human Rights Watch says the group is concerned about the lack of transparency among Libya's interim National Transitional Council rulers.
Mauritania has urged that no ransom be paid for European hostages held in the Sahel region by al-Qaeda's North African wing.
Former rebels have tried for the second time to assassinate the top Libya army commander.
Renegade ex-rebels are believed to be behind a failed assassination attempt on the new head of the Libyan army.
Al-Qaeda in North Africa has denied kidnapping three aid workers in Algeria but confirmed that it was behind two other abductions in Mali, a statement says.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group set to dominate the new parliament, has accused the country's military rulers of trying to undercut the authority of elected legislators.
Al-Qaeda's north African wing says it was behind the kidnapping of two French spies and three other Europeans in Mali last month.
The Malian government says it is taking measures to boost security at tourist sites and roads after a spate of kidnappings, including a South African, and the murder of a foreigner in the north of the country.
Egyptian belly dancers have vowed not to retire if Islamists take over in the predominantly Muslim country.
With little political experience but a huge religious following, Egypt's ultra-conservative Salafi movement has managed to pull a quarter of the vote in the country’s parliamentary elections.
At least 10 people were killed in a blast in an ammunition storage in the central Libya, a military official has said.