Sudan has apparently told the US that it will not normalise relations with Israel until Washington removes the African country from the list of states which "sponsor" terrorism, the...

Egypt's Cabinet is planning to issue a new law imposing more penalties for the marriage of underage girls and child labour, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said during a Cabinet...

US Presidential adviser Jared Kushner arrived in the Gulf on Monday in an effort to end the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar, Al Jazeera reported. Kushner is hoping to pull off a...

Hundreds of public sector engineers in Tunisia yesterday organised a mass protest to demand a wage increase. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent, the protesters raised banners in front of parliament...

Algeria's Minister of Communication and government spokesman Ammar Belhimer has denounced the French role in the European Parliament's resolution on the "Situation of freedom in Algeria", describing it as...

The Algerian Football Federation yesterday condemned the exposure of international player, Nabil Bentaleb, to racist attacks in Germany. This came in a statement published by the Algerian Football Federation...

Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson has called on the Egyptian authorities to release three senior staff members of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). Executive Director Jasser Abdel-Razek, Administrative...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ask the Egyptian government to disclose the financial information of companies owned by the military before disbursing...

The Chairman of Egypt's Suez Canal Authority, Osama Rabie, yesterday announced that the canal's navigation movement was "normal despite the repercussions of the novel coronavirus". Rabie told reporters that...

Deputy leader of Palestine's Fatah movement, Mahmoud Al-Aloul, said a committee which includes Palestinian, Jordanian and Egyptian officials has been formed to coordinate the Palestinian call for holding an...

Egypt executed at least 57 people in October and November, Amnesty International has said, almost double the number of executions carried out in the whole of 2019. Amnesty referred...

The current crisis between Qatar and the Gulf states could end "within 24 hours", Saudi Arabia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Abdullah Bin Yahya Al-Mouallimi, said yesterday. "If...

Egypt is to "temporarily" end its investigation into the murder of Italian student Guilio Regeni, who was found dead in Cairo in 2016, Egyptian and Italian prosecutors said in...

The US is not a charity that donates things for goodwill without expecting something in return, the head of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has said...

One month after Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was flown to Germany for urgent coronavirus treatment, mystery still surrounds his condition. Questions and rumours about the fate of the country...

Jamaican defender and captain Damion Lowe has signed for the Egyptian Premier League football club Al-Ittihad becoming the first Jamaican player in an Egyptian club. Lowe arrived in Cairo...

The US Department of Defence has indicated that the United Arab Emirates is financing Russian Wagner mercenaries operating in Libya. The Pentagon report could have a serious impact on...

The video shows a crowd of people chanting “Shikabala, Shikabala” – the nickname for Mohamed Abdel Razek, who is black – and raising a black dog wearing a Zamalek football shirt with the number 10 above their heads

Egyptian police have detained a photographer and a dancer after they shot images outside the pyramids of Giza. Last week, Salma Elshimy posted photographs of herself in an ancient...

The Chairman of Tunisia's Ennahda movement has renewed his call for a comprehensive national reconciliation with the former regime's officials who choose to be reintegrated in the post-revolution political...

A Libyan official has confirmed that the fourth round of the Libyan national dialogue started on Monday in the city of Tangier, northern Morocco, Anadolu has reported. The details...

Egypt will reduce the number of employees and workers in government offices as a precautionary measure to prevent another surge in coronavirus infections, an official spokesperson announced yesterday. Khaled...

Algeria yesterday sentenced two former prime ministers to five years in jail.  "A national penal judge, specialised in combating economic and financial crimes, has sentenced Abdelmalek Sellal and Mohamed Ouyahia...

The man responsible for torturing hundreds of people during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt has died in Britain. Shams Badran was 91, the New Khaliji has reported....

One of the large private hospitals in Egypt on Saturday announced the death of an Egyptian citizen after the deterioration of his health due to coronavirus, but the man...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has left a German hospital where he was flown for treatment more than a month ago, and he will return home "in the coming days,"...

African diplomats yesterday called out the UN for its inaction on Palestine and its failure to end Israel's more than half-century occupation. According to the Afro-Palestine Newswire Service, South Africa's...

Egypt and Kuwait are deliberating plans for Cairo to extradite an Egyptian citizen accused of stealing 1.9 million Kuwaiti dinars ($6.23 million) during his time working in the Arab...

Egyptian Ceramica Cleopatra Club player Mido Jaber has disappeared from one of the army's chain of hotels under mysterious circumstances. Under the Arabic hashtag, where is Mido Jaber, football fans have called on the security services to admit where...

The success in drone warfare conducted by Turkey and Azerbaijan is a cause of concern for Europe and should force it to consider its options, a senior policy fellow...

Qatar is undermining peace talks through its support for the United Nations recognised Libyan Government of National (GNA), Egyptian officials said, Al-Monitor reports. Last October, Qatar signed an agreement with the Tripoli-based Libyan government to build...

An international law firm based in London and Istanbul has called on the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances to...