Egyptian undercover forces have kidnapped female activist Israa Abdelfattah from a street in the capital Cairo, Arab48 reported. According to the activist Mohamed Dalah, the undercover forces stopped him...

Tunisia’s second round of presidential elections came to an end yesterday with more than 7,888,000 voters participating. The total number of registered voters included 49 per cent women and...

Libya’s internationally-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has refused to reduce diplomatic representation and stop cooperation with Turkey. According to the Anadolu Agency, in a statement published on its...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday announced that he would meet Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali in Russia to discuss the Renaissance Dam and find a mutually agreeable...

Arab foreign ministers held an emergency meeting in Cairo on Saturday to discuss recent developments in war-torn Syria, as reported by Anadolu Agency.  The meeting comes a few days...

The Egyptian Public Prosecution has announced the release of 500 Egyptians who were arrested on the grounds of protesting against President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, Al-Quds Al-Araby reported on Friday. Diaa...

Sudan and Ethiopia agreed on Friday to establish a joint oil pipeline, to serve the two countries. This came during a meeting held by Sudanese Minister of Energy and...

Leader of the Sudanese opposition National Umma Party, Sadiq Al-Mahdi, predicted that the transitional regime will face five “serious” challenges that may lead it to a “dead end”, describing...

The Algerian National Independent Authority for Elections (ANIE) announced on Thursday, that 139 candidates have registered to run for presidential elections slated for 12 December 2019, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported....

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on Friday nearly $50 million in education funding in Somalia, reports Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the US embassy in...

Tunisia’s Ennahda party has attained 52 seats out of 217 in the country’s next government, the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) announced on Wednesday night. The Heart of Tunisia...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his efforts to make peace with Eritrea

Twitter has apologised for temporarily suspending the accounts of over 100 human rights activists in the wake of protests against the Sisi regime. On the 20 September Egyptians across...

Egypt’s Ministry of Education on Wednesday launched the largest electronic portal for those seeking jobs at public and private schools. “The ministry will hire 120,000 teachers on a contractual basis for...

Sudan’s Sovereignty Transitional Council decided on Thursday to appoint Judge Nemat Abdallah Mohamed Khair as Chief of the Judiciary and Taj Alserali Al-Hibr Ali as Attorney General. The spokesperson...

The actor and businessman Mohamed Ali has called on the Egyptian people to demonstrate peacefully on rooftops on Thursday at 6 or 7 pm to demand the departure of...

The Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) – to which the South African President Nelson Mandela belonged – has joined the BDS movement, the movement’s South Africa branch reported...

Prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdul Fattah has told his lawyers that he has been beaten, threatened and robbed inside prison. Alaa is one of the key figures of the...

Aisha Al-Shater has been in hospital for a week after her health seriously deteriorated following a second hunger strike in protest against her prison conditions. The daughter of top...

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh praised Egyptian efforts to support the Palestinian economy during a visit to Cairo, reported Asharq Al-Awsat. Shtayyeh was speaking at a press conference alongside...

Qatar said on Tuesday that its is ready “to provide all it can to support and assist the government and people of Sudan,” Qatari foreign ministry said. Special Envoy...

A number of human rights defenders and activists in Morocco have been found to have been targeted by surveillance technology and spyware developed by an Israeli company, according to...

The Egyptian parliament voted, on Wednesday, to form a special committee headed by its deputy to discuss the cabinet statement delivered by Prime Minister Mostafa Kamal Madbouly on the...

Morocco announced a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, reducing the number of jobs to 23 but keeping the foreign, finance and interior ministers in their posts, Reuters reports. King Mohammed...

Egypt denounced Ethiopia on Wednesday for moving forward with building and operating a hyropower dam on the Nile, which Cairo worries will threaten already scarce water supplies, Reuters reports....

A Tunisian appeals court on Wednesday freed presidential candidate Nabil Karoui days before Sunday’s second-round runoff election, his lawyer told Reuters. Media mogul Karoui was detained in August before...

Egypt called for an emergency meeting of the Arab League over Turkey’s offensive into Syria, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. “Egypt condemned in the strongest terms...

A prominent Sinai activist working as an IT engineer in the UAE is facing deportation to Egypt after sharing Facebook posts from Massaad Abu Fager. Inspired by the Egyptian...

Tunisia’s Ennahda party has announced the conditions it has set for other parties to enter into an alliance with it in order to form a government. Exit polls following Tunisia’s parliamentary elections,...

The Egyptian prime minister has told parliament that the country is facing a “non-conventional war” and that he will not allow “chaos” to spread. After a series of protests...

A ten-member Egyptian medical convoy yesterday entered the Gaza Strip to provide medical care for Palestinians in the enclave, Quds Press reported. Dr Hisham Farhoud, the head of the...

Leaders of the Arab National Congress called on the Algerian and Egyptian authorities to release recently arrested national leaders. Former Secretary-General of the Arab National Congress, Maan Bashour, expressed...