An armed group stormed the home of Libyan lawmaker Seham Sergewa in the city of Benghazi on Wednesday morning and kidnapped her, Libyan media reported. The Presidential Council of...

The Trump administration is considering a practical shutdown of refugee arrivals in the US next year, cutting the numbers to almost zero. The news has been reported by three...

The Algerian Supreme Court yesterday ordered former minister of transport and public works in the government of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Ammar Gul, to be investigated for corruption, local...

Egyptian authorities have decided to ban passengers who hold Saudi tourism visas to attend the “Sea and Culture” festival in Jeddah from travelling. This came after the Saudi authorities...

A human rights lawyer who was detained in December for sharing a picture of himself wearing a yellow vest on Facebook in solidarity with protesters in France has had...

Though few Sudanese support the notion that the ideals of the revolution should be abandoned, most have surrendered to the reality that the desired civilian transitional rule is unlikely...

Sales of the five business centres owned by Sudanese businessperson, Hashem Abul Fadel, have fallen by about 40 per cent following the political instability in Sudan. He and fellow...

Morocco’s House of Advisors has approved law governing Sharia-compliant insurance, known as Takaful. This law is expected to give a much-needed boost to the country’s Islamic finance sector. Experts in Islamic banking...

The dissident leader of Haftar forces, Mohammed Hijazi, revealed that Hafar’s soldiers had been involved in assassinations in Benghazi after the launch of Operation Dignity. During an interview with...

A suicide bombing killed at least two people in Egypt’s North Sinai region on Thursday, a day after four headless bodies were found there, security and medical sources said, Reuters reported....

The German captain of a charity rescue ship, under investigation for aiding illegal immigration, said on Thursday she hoped the new EU Commission would work to let boat migrants...

Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif today stepped down from her position on the board of the British Museum criticising it for its “immovability on issues of critical concern to the...

More than 1,000 human rights violations have taken place in Egypt since the start of 2019, according to the Cairo-based NGO El-Nadeem. In total El-Nadeem recorded 283 cases of...

The security presence in Al-Arish is worse than at the height of Operation Sinai, reports Mada Masr, as a large-scale security campaign gathers pace. Security forces have expanded house...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined Egypt, France, Italy, the UK and the US in expressing concern about the ongoing hostilities in Tripoli, Libya, and calling for a return...

Armed movements in Sudan announced, Wednesday, their reservations about the political declaration signed between the Military Council and the Forces of Freedom and Change. The stated that the declaration...

As many as 1,028 foreigners are held by the Saudi authorities on terrorism and harming state security charges, the latest figures about detainees in Saudi prisons revealed. These represent...

Leaders of Ennahda movement have accused the party’s executive office and its president, Rached Ghannouchi, of bias in favour of his allies and “lack of respect for the will...

Experts have begun restoration work on the golden-plated coffin of Egypt’s boy-king Tutankhamun for the first time since the discovery of the tomb in 1922, the Egyptian Ministry of...

Arabi 21 has obtained a summary of the statement made by the Deputy General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Khayrat Al-Shatir during the recent court session held on...

An international rights group has calls for details of the whereabouts of three Jordanian citizens who were kidnapped by an armed group in Libya almost a year ago to...

The deal is meant to pave the way to a political transition after military leaders ousted former President Omar Al-Bashir

The price of special permits to visit family members of detainees in Egypt has gone up from three Egyptian pounds ($0.18) to 15 ($0.9), a 500 per cent rise,...

Morocco repatriated the bodies of 11 nationals from Libya, including ten killed in Khalifa Haftar’s air strikes on a detention centre in Tajoura earlier this month and one who died...

The Egyptian parliament approved amendments to the controversial NGO law on Monday which place extra restrictions on the work of civil society groups, local and international media have reported....

Algeria’s Minister of Tourism and Craft Industry Abdelkader Benmessaoud yesterday appeared before the Supreme Court of Algiers on corruption charges. Judicial sources said Benmessaoud answered questions regarding charges brought...

At least three people were killed and several other medical personnel were injured in an air strike launched by forces loyal to Libya’s Major General Khalifa Haftar against a...

Egypt, France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US reiterated concern about ongoing hostilities in Tripoli, urging Libya to return to UN-mediated political process, reports Anadolu...

Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement announced on Tuesday that its Head, Rached Ghannouchi, could run for the next legislative elections in October. “The movement’s basic law stipulates that its head will...

Hundreds of Sudanese citizens demonstrated in a neighbourhood in Khartoum against the killing of a civilian by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Monday evening. Protesters burned the headquarters of...

Egypt’s parliament speaker Ali Abdel Aal yesterday said that he was “loyal” to the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi his “patriotism.” “I have been carrying love for this country...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday condemned the Kuwaiti authorities for “unlawfully” returning eight Egyptians for allegedly being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood group. The rights organisation warned that the...