Qatar will not take a decision on whether to expand its 2022 World Cup to 48 teams from 32 until it has seen the details of a feasibility study...

The Algerian-Tunisian border crossing, located in the Tunisian border town of Bouchebka, was re-opened yesterday following unrest and protests by the town’s residents. Tunisian residents protested and threw stones...

The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) has called on the Attorney-General to immediately investigate attacks on journalists outside the Pharmacists Syndicate and to bring the perpetrators to trial...

The head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, will “soon” leave the occupied Gaza Strip for a “wide” tour around a number of Arab and foreign countries, Arabi21 reported yesterday, quoting...

The Egyptian government yesterday denied reports that it had withdrawn its ambassador to Italy. “The Egyptian ambassador to Italy is continuing to carry out his job duties,” the country’s...

Israeli settlers demonstrated on the road leading to the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing along the southern Gaza border, on Thursday, Ma’an News Agency reports. According to local sources, a large number...

Somalia’s Minister of Public Labour and Housing Abdel-Fattah Ibrahim yesterday resigned following the eruption of violence after the detention of a prominent local sheikh in the city of Baidoa,...

The Sudanese Workers’ Trade Union Federation (SWTUF) reached an agreement with Prime Minister Motazz Moussa that salaries in government jobs will increase by 500 Sudanese pounds ($10.50) for the...

The Arab Parliament urged the Arab League on Friday to reinstate Syria’s membership, which was suspended seven years ago, Reuters reports Egypt’s state news agency as saying yesterday. The...

Ethiopia will begin moving its troops away from the border with Eritrea, senior military officials said on Friday, months after the erstwhile enemies reopened it for the first time...

Greece has seized drugs worth more than 100 million euros ($113 million) after intercepting a Syrian ship sailing for Libya, Reuters reported the coast guard as saying on Friday....

Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been voted BBC African Footballer of the Year for the second time in a row. The 26-year-old beat Medhi Benatia, Kalidou Koulibaly,...

A recent study has revealed that Morocco invested 37 billion Moroccan Dirhams ($3.85 billion) in African countries between 2003 and 2017. The study found that 53 per cent of...

Possible defects in electro-mechanical work could add four more years to the construction schedule of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Officials said that a “grave mistake” had been...

Drivers of oil tankers in Tunisia started a surprise two-day strike on Thursday, protesting against delays in plans to involve them in the oil workers’ syndicate. Following the start...

The United States on Friday sanctioned three individuals, including former Israeli major general Israel Ziv, for their roles in South Sudan’s civil war, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the...

The Tunisian government is struggling to cut its fiscal deficit after two initiatives to raise taxes were rejected by the public and parliamentarians this week. Yesterday, Tunisia’s parliament rejected...

The European Parliament yesterday condemned the “continuous restrictions on fundamental democratic rights” in Egypt and the targeting of human rights defenders. In a resolution, the Parliament reiterated its call...

Egypt’s National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) yesterday announced that it had received a report through the Child Rescue Line “16000″ claiming that children were being abused and...

A former Al-Shabaab spokesman has been arrested in southwestern Somalia, an official said, reports Anadolu Agency. Mukhtar Robow, also known as Abu Mansor, was arrested by Somali and Ethiopian...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki arrived on Thursday for his first-ever visit to Somalia, in another sign of rapidly changing relations in the region following Eritrea’s rapprochement with one-time foe...

Hundreds of Coptic Christians on Thursday attended the burial of a father and his son who were killed by a police officer in Egypt’s Minya province, amid cries for...

Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia yesterday denied media reports claiming the presidency had prevented him from presenting the annual report of his government’s work to parliament. The Algerian prime...

High school and secondary school teachers stage a demonstration demanding wage increase, early retirement and education reform in Tunis

Tanzania yesterday chose Egypt’s El Sewedy Electric Co. and Arab Contractors to build a $2.9 billion hydroelectric plant in a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The dam will be built...

Interpol has removed Yousef al-Qaradawi, head of the Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars, from its “wanted” list, reports Anadolu Agency. A source from al-Qaradawi’s office confirmed receiving an...

Saudi Arabia is seeking an alliance with six countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, a strategic area vital to global shipping and increasingly an arena...

An Egyptian man has filed a case against his wife for subjecting his daughters to female genital mutilation (FGM) without his or his daughters’ consent. In a phone interview...

Egypt is planning to amend its controversial civil society law, ratified by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi about a year and a half ago. The Egyptian cabinet said in a...

Tunisia’s Interior Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that the two main assassins of engineer Mohammad Zawari were Bosnians who entered the country through the port of Halq Al-Wadi on 8...

Egypt Minister of Finance Mohamed Ma’it said the government cannot create new jobs but the private sector can. “The government has five million employees who cannot even find a...

An Egyptian prosecutor in Alexandria has ordered human rights lawyer Mohammed Ramadan to be detained for 15 days for sharing a picture of himself wearing “a yellow vest” in...