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Along with other officials, former Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim al Ghandour started on Sunday a hunger strike in his prison in protest against his detention. In a statement released...

Sudanese authorities have revoked the license of the Doha-based Al Jazeera Mubasher TV, citing "unprofessional coverage" of developments in Sudan. The Information Ministry said in a letter to the...

UK and Egyptian officials vowed Saturday to cooperate on climate change as the current and incoming presidencies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of...

A project to expand parts of the Suez Canal is expected to be completed after two years of work in July 2023, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority...

The new US envoy to the Horn of Africa, David Satterfield, and Assistant Secretary Molly Phee will visit Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Ethiopia next week, the State Department said...

Tunisia has witnessed an ongoing political crisis since 25 July 2020

Washington announced on Friday its strong support for free, fair and inclusive elections in Libya, as stipulated in the roadmap of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum. This came during...

Sudan's Sovereign Council, on Thursday, hailed Turkey's supportive stance toward the country and its keenness to strengthen ties between Ankara and Khartoum, Anadolu News Agency reports. The Council issued...

The United Nations said, Friday, it is "alarmed" at the killing of 108 civilians in Ethiopia's Tigray region since the start of the year, as reports mount of airstrikes...

The Tunisian Ennahda party, on Friday, made a public call to mark the anniversary of the country's 2011 revolution on Friday, amid calls by various groups to rally against...

More than 600 refugees, asylum seekers and migrants were arrested and moved to Ain Zara Detention Centre in the southern part of Tripoli on Monday. The mass arrest followed...

The Minister of Culture said that "there is a government discussion about adopting the Amazigh New Year as an official holiday, and we are waiting for the Prime Minister's...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, despite ending the state of emergency by Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in October 2021, the Egyptian government attached emergency decree provisions to other...

The Sudanese security forces stormed on Thursday the office of Alaraby television in the capital Khartoum, and arrested several journalists and crew members. The detained crew members had been...

Tunisia's Renaissance Party, Ennahda, has accused the country's authorities of "striving to put a political and security hand on the public media." "The suppression of rights and freedoms was...

When Somalia's state-run Radio Mogadishu began airing an Italian-language program earlier this month under a new agreement with Italy, it led to an uproar. Somalis both at home and...

Investigations by the Egyptian authorities have exonerated the country's health minister, Hala Zayed, in a bribery case involving senior ministry officials, local media reported yesterday. The minister's ex-husband, Mohamed...

A complaint has been filed against Tunisian President Kais Saied and measures he has taken giving him executive powers in the North African state. Activists in Tunisia, Europe, America...

Egypt is developing the country's mining industry by establishing a gold refinery in the eastern desert region, the Petroleum Minister, Tarek El-Molla, announced yesterday. "Work is underway to implement the...

Tunisia's Ennahda movement will not comply with the government ban on gatherings and will join Friday's protests against the exceptional measures taken by President Kais Saied in July. Member...

Prominent Egyptian women's rights activist Amal Fathy has been sentenced to a year in prison for posting a video on Facebook in which she criticised authorities' failure to protect...

The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) yesterday warned that strikes in the country would escalate to include "more than 80 per cent in the absence of social...

Egypt has spent $400 billion over the past seven years to tackle poverty, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said yesterday. Speaking at the World Youth Forum, Al-Sisi said: "There were...

Tunisia's Ennahda Movement called for the urgent release of its Vice President Noureddine Bhiri, noting that he is "on the brink of death". "Considering the intransigence of the existing...

Staffan de Mistura, UN envoy to the Western Sahara, yesterday began his first visit to Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. De Mistura is going to meet Moroccan officials in Rabat, according...

Reconstructing Gaza needs more than the $500 million offered by Egypt following the Israeli offensive between 11-21 May 2021, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said yesterday. Speaking at a panel of the World Youth Forum (WYF) conference in the Egyptian Red Sea...

At least two people died, and eight others were missing yesterday after a truck slid off a ferry and into the River Nile. There were 24 farm labourers in...

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) yesterday proposed a new initiative to "facilitate dialogue between the Sudanese parties" and find a radical solution to the country's crisis, the Sudanese...

At least 10 people, including five security officers, were killed when a suicide car blast targeted a security convoy in Somalia's capital on Wednesday, officials said and reported by...

Ousted Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir appeared in court yesterday in connection with the 1989 military coup that brought him to power. More than 20 former officials are standing trial...

Anti-narcotics police in Ecuador have seized 656.7 kilogrammes of cocaine concealed in a shipping container carrying bananas headed for Tunisia. According to the police, the drugs were dispersed among ten jute...

Tunisia's trade balance deficit rose 27 per cent in 2021, to reach 16.2 billion dinars ($5.8 billion). The National Institute of Statistics in Tunisia said yesterday that the trade deficit...