Algeria plans for the first time to deprive of nationality citizens who commit acts abroad that are liable to "seriously damage the interests of the state or harm the...
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News Venezuela sent gold to Mali in 2020 via Russian-owned planes to exchange for euros and US dollars that President Nicolas Maduro's government used to remain afloat despite US sanctions,...
Egyptian authorities have executed 16 people convicted and sentenced to death in criminal cases this week, a significant hike in the number of executions in the country. Yesterday alone,...
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News Egyptian journalist Jamal Al-Jaml disappeared at Cairo airport after returning to Egypt from Turkey on 22 February. Members of the opposition are often arrested as they enter or leave the airport....
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News The US State Department said that it would give priority to immigrant visa applications for those who were affected by the travel ban imposed by former President Donald Trump....
A Sudanese passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing last week after a cat attacked the pilot, local media reported. It is not clear how the cat...
Egypt and Sudan reiterated on Tuesday the importance of reaching a legally binding agreement with Ethiopia on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, it has...
Libyan security forces have arrested one of the main suspects in the murder of 30 mostly Bangladeshi migrants in the city of Mizdah, south of the capital Tripoli, last...
Morocco has told government departments to cease cooperation and contacts with Germany's embassy in the North African kingdom due in part to Berlin's stance over Western Sahara, a senior...
Some 41 Egyptian opposition figures on Monday called on the Biden administration to take action against the Egyptian regime, saying it had committed "crimes that are worse than the...
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said that the country's army is "professional" and "distant from politics", adding that he considers "almost all the demands" of what he called the "genuine...
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News The Empowerment Elimination, Anti-Corruption and Funds Recovery Committee in Sudan announced the dismissal of 300 civil servants, saying that the concerned workers had obtained their jobs during the rule of Omar...
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Sudan The piece depicts the 12th Century Marrakech mosque at sunset with the backdrop of the Atlas Mountains
Former Egyptian parliamentarian, Mahmoud Youssef, has become the twelfth person to die in an Egyptian prison since the start of the year and the ninth prisoner since February after...
The Sudanese army is reported to have recovered land after fierce clashes on the Ethiopian border. Fighting took place in Al-Fashaqa Al-Kubra in the east Sudan state of Gedaref...
A court in Algeria has sentenced a political activist to seven years in prison on charges of "incitement to terrorism", according to local media. Clashes erupted between Algerian youth...
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News Libya's interim prime minister was elected after bribing participants to vote in his favour, a UN inquiry seen by Agence France Presse (AFP) has found. Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, 61, reportedly offered...
Tunisian MPs have called for an investigation into allegations that senior state officials received 1,000 free doses of the coronavirus vaccine from the UAE at the beginning of February....
Anger is growing in Egypt over amendments to a real estate law that stipulates property owners must register their property and those that don't will not have access to...
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News A French senator has called on the government to allow Algerian access to colonial archives in France, but only if there is reciprocal access for French researchers to Algeria's...
Lawyer and human rights defender Ezzat Ghoneim has just completed three years in pretrial detention in Egypt. Yesterday, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights (ENHR) said that Ezzat had...
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News The European Union (EU) announced on Sunday that it had agreed to pay a €70 million ($84 million) second tranche of its contribution to a project that supports impoverished...
A US naval destroyer docked on Sudan's Red Sea coast on Monday in the latest sign of thawing relations with the United States, a day after a visit by...
Morocco's Minister of State for Human Rights, Mustafa Ramid, has resigned from the government. The surprise move by the senior official in the Justice and Development Party came a...
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News The Ministry of Justice in Algeria announced on Saturday that 59 prisoners of conscience have been released following a presidential pardon, the Algerian News Agency has reported. The pardon...
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News The new head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, has arrived in Sabha to hold a series of meetings with the political, military and community representatives in the...
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News The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) today called on Morocco not to extradite Saudi-Australian academic [ to Riyadh, saying to do so "would would...
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UK Israel will provide the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) based in Egypt's Sinai peninsula with coronavirus vaccines. A request from the US to provide the MFO with some 2,400...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that Tunisia "need to lower the wage bill and limit energy subsidies while prioritizing health and investment expenditure and protecting targeted social...
Sudanese yesterday announced the adoption of a new plan to reform its economy based on imposing controls over smuggling gold, the New Khaleej reported. The plan is based on...
The chairman of Tunisia's Ennahda party, Rached Ghannouchi, on Saturday announced his keenness to cooperate with both the Tunisian president and prime minister despite differences between the parties, calling...
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Tunisia At least nine al-Shabaab militants were killed in Somalia Sunday when the al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group mounted an attack Sunday morning on an army base in the country's southwest, reports...
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