Tunisia’s parliamentary run-off election on Sunday looked set to replicate the low turnout of December’s first round, with voter participation at just 7.7 percent by the afternoon. 

Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on  Saturday in support of the ruling junta, days after France confirmed its special forces there would withdraw.

Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb near the capital Cairo containing a gold leaf-covered mummy that had remained closed for 4,300 years. It’s believed to be one of the oldest a most complete mummies ever discovered in Egypt.

Tunisians are to vote again on Sunday in elections for a parliament stripped of its powers, the final pillar of President Kais Saied’s remake of politics in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.

US officials say they have killed Bilal al-Sudani, a key regional leader of the Islamic State group, in a special military operation ordered by President Joe Biden.

U.S. special operations forces have killed a senior Islamic State group official and 10 other terrorist operatives in remote northern Somalia, senior Biden administration officials announced Thursday.