Africa

Aid workers in Sudan say fierce fighting, rampant looting and reams of red tape are hampering efforts to deliver vital humanitarian supplies to the millions of people who now...

Senior officials from more than a dozen countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iran, were in talks on forging closer links with the BRICS bloc of major emerging economies on...

A meeting of foreign ministers of BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – countries was held in Cape Town, South Africa on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports....

Violent clashes erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group on Friday in the capital, Khartoum, a day after the suspension of...

The UN Food Agency, on Friday, strongly condemned the looting of one of the Agency's logistics hubs in south-central Sudan, Anadolu Agency reports. The attack in El Obeid "puts...

Morocco yesterday criticised Margaritis Schinas, vice president of the European Commission, for describing the disputed cities of Ceuta and Melilla as "European", Anadolu news agency reported. On Wednesday, Spanish...

Egyptian poet, Galal El-Behairy, has started a complete hunger strike, abstaining from food and water, in objection to his continued imprisonment for over five years, a human rights group...

Morocco yesterday announced that it was increasing the number of primary schools that teach the Amazigh language during the next academic year to make it available in all schools...

The United States, on Thursday, imposed sanctions on companies it accused of fuelling the conflict in Sudan, stepping up pressure on the Army and a rival paramilitary force to stop...

Arab experts have said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's re-election will advance Turkish-Arab relations to greater horizons, Anadolu Agency reports. Erdogan won last Sunday's runoff vote with 52.16 per cent....

US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, has described the situation in Tunisia as "extremely complicated", Anadolu news agency reported. "The social space has begun...

Israeli Minister of Transport, Miri Regev, has emphasised that Tel Aviv recognises the importance of the Sahara issue to the Moroccan people, adding that the government will take a...

Algeria has again raised the issue of compensation for the victims of landmines planted by French colonisation in Algeria, resulting in over 7,000 casualties, including those who suffered permanent...

The Sudan Doctors Syndicate announced on Wednesday that 17 people were killed and 106 injured as a result of heavy bombing in the Mayo district, south of the capital,...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been found to have the highest prevalence of diabetes in the world, according to a report yesterday by the Daily...

Sudan's Army reportedly suspended participation in Saudi Arabia-hosted cease-fire talks with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, Anadolu Agency reports. The news was carried by a number of...

An imprisoned Egyptian poet has warned that he will escalate his hunger strike tomorrow in protest against his ongoing incarceration. Galal El-Behairy was sentenced to three years in prison...

Morocco's Justice and Development Party (PJD) has turned down an invitation by an Israeli diplomatic envoy to Rabat to attend the celebration of Israel's independence, a statement said yesterday....

Israeli researcher at the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies, Shai Har-Zvi, stressed the need for the occupation government to strengthen the "fragile" relations with Turkiye after President Recep Tayyip...

Libya's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned an attack on its embassy in the Sudanese capital Khartoum yesterday, after the buildings were ransacked and looted. The ministry said in...

The head of Sudan's Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has said the army has not yet used "deadly force" against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militias, but it will...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) yesterday warned that more than 13.6 million children in Sudan are in urgent need of life-saving humanitarian support, the highest number ever recorded...

Journalist Heba Yaseen wrote on Facebook that she witnessed the beltagaya destroying the boxes containing the voting cards

Real Madrid captain, French-Algerian star Karim Benzema has received a $214.5 million offer to join Saudi's Al-Ittihad Club. The Spanish radio station, Cadena COPE, revealed that Benzema had agreed...

Tunisia's Ennahda Movement announced a "major deterioration" in the health of detained movement leader Sahbi Atigue on Tuesday evening, 18 days into his hunger strike. The movement shared in...

Egyptian Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar announced on Tuesday that Egypt has agreed to train 20 Palestinian doctors in urgently needed specialisms every year, Cairo 24...

The First Assistant to the Public Prosecutor at Tunisia's judicial hub for the fight against organised crime and terrorism (PJ – Pôle judiciaire) has opened an investigation into 21...

The Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr Ahmed El-Tayeb, said that Al-Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards are fully Islamic, stressing that no temporal or spatial division of the blessed site will...

The French magazine, La Tribune, criticised President Kais Saied's refusal to accept the conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to approve a loan to Tunisia, considering it...

Algerian Foreign Minister, Ahmed Attaf, stated on Tuesday that "Africa cannot completely turn the final page of its colonial history without enabling the Sahrawi people to exercise their inalienable...

A Libyan Court in the north-western city of Misrata has sentenced 23 people to death for membership in the Daesh terrorist group, Anadolu Agency reports. The Court also slapped...

The US and Saudi Arabia have announced that a week-long ceasefire has been extended by five days