Africa, Political Turmoil | featured news

Journalists covering protests in Cairo, including CNN's Anderson Cooper and two Associated Press correspondents, have been roughed up in the crowd.

Cairo's international airport was a scene of chaos and confusion Monday as thousands of foreigners sought to flee the unrest in Egypt and countries around the world scrambled to send in planes to fly their citizens out....

Groups of U.S. tourists were stuck Saturday trying to find their way out of Egypt amid the chaos and violent protests that have seized the country.

Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt's top democracy advocate and a key challenger to President Hosni Mubarak, returned to the country Thursday night after declaring he was ready to lead the grass-roots protest movement to a regime change....

The restive North African nation of Tunisia has issued an international arrest warrant for its ousted president, Tunisian media reported.

In Tunisia, police join demonstrators calling for the interim government to resign.

Fouad Mebazaa is sworn in less than a day after Zine el Abidine ben Ali fled the country and handed power to Mohamed Ghannouchi. Chaos and tension persist, and a prison fire reportedly kills dozens.