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  • August 18, 2021

    Libya registers 2.8m voters ahead of December election

    Libya is ready for the upcoming elections in December and has registered 2.8 million voters, the country’s election commission said yesterday. The election commission said registration closed yesterday and...

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  • August 18, 2021

    Algeria: scores arrested after mob lynches man wrongly accused of starting wildfires 

    At least 61 people have been arrested by Algerian police following the lynching of a man wrongly accused of starting deadly wildfires in the country last week. Some suspects...

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  • August 18, 2021

    Gaza’s women-only beauty oil business

    A group of women in Gaza have manufactured a range of botanical toiletries which are free from radicals and chemicals and therefore have no side effects. Speaking to MEMO, Gold...

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  • August 18, 2021

    Russia, Turkish discuss Afghanistan

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed the situation in Afghanistan today and called on key players to ensure security there, Russia’s Foreign Ministry...

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  • August 18, 2021

    Mauritania chess player pulls out of Junior World Cup to avoid Israel player

    A 14-year-old Mauritanian chess player has pulled out of the Junior World Cup because the draw set him up to face an Israeli player. “I decided to retire, because...

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  • August 18, 2021

    Libya reopens borders with Tunisia

    The Government of National Unity (GNU) in Libya has reopened all land and air crossings with Tunisia, while fully adhering to the precautionary measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic,...

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  • August 18, 2021

    Qatar’s new envoy arrives in Egypt 

    Qatar’s new ambassador to Egypt arrived in Cairo yesterday four years after the position was vacated as a result of the 2017 Gulf crisis. Salem Bin Mubarak Al-Shafi was named Qatar’s...

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  • August 18, 2021

    ‘EU has to talk with Taliban; it won the war’

    EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell has said that the European bloc should talk with the Taliban movement in Afghanistan because it won the war there, Anadolu has reported....

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  • August 18, 2021

    Taliban spokesman ‘did not address media identified as Israeli’ 

    A Taliban spokesman has insisted that he did not speak to any media identified as Israeli, Arabi21.com reported today. Suhail Shaheen was heard answering questions about the rights of...

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  • August 18, 2021

    Tunisia: Ennahda MP appeals against president’s decision to suspend parliament

    Ennahda Member of Parliament, Farida Al-Obeidi has submitted two petitions to the Administrative Court in order to override the president’s decision to suspend parliament. The MP said yesterday that...

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