Egypt is preparing to celebrate the launch of its first communication satellite “TIBA-1” on 22 November, Anadolu reported. According to Egyptian news reports, the satellite is to provide internet...

The family of Mahmoud Hussein, the imprisoned Al Jazeera journalist, are calling on Egyptian authorities to give him permission to attend his father’s funeral after he passed away yesterday....

A young Egyptian woman who denounced the regime in a video posted online has disappeared after leaving a voice message to the public. “Central security is here. They’ve come...

The Egyptian Ministry of Transport announced on Tuesday that a young man has died from wounds he sustained after jumping from a moving train to avoid paying a fine...

A 12-year-old girl has died after being swept in flash floods which hit Tunisia yesterday. “A 12-year-old schoolgirl from the city of Fernana, in the province of Jendouba, was...

A court in Algeria yesterday sentenced 21 protesters to six months in jail for “undermining national unity”, local media reported. The court’s verdict included a six-month suspended prison sentence...

Egypt’s Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been ruled out of their African Cup of Nations qualifiers against Kenya and Comoros with an ankle injury. Egypt released a statement on...

Egypt has been trying to deflect criticism of its human rights record and prison conditions ahead of a UN review in Geneva on Wednesday that comes in the wake...

Tunisia yesterday denied reports about the return of fighters belonging to militant organisations from other countries. This came in a statement issued by the Tunisian Ministry of Interior and...

Algeria has deported 3,231 sub-Saharan Africans in the space of one month as it continues its policy of abandoning people in the desert and forcing them to walk to...

Discontent is swelling among high-ranking Egyptian judicial sources angry about the growing influence of Al-Sisi’s brother, Counselor Ahmed Al-Sisi, sources have told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. Ahmed Al-Sisi has played a...

Tunisia’s Ennahda movement has announced that it has decided to nominate Rached Ghannouchi as speaker of the parliament. Tunisian media quoted the chairman of Ennahda’s Shura Council, Abdelkarim Harouni,...

The UN must investigate the death of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and hold those responsible for his murder to account, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday. “As part...

Security authorities in Egypt hid a woman, her husband and her baby after arresting them ten days ago. The mother’s brother was arrested and disappeared a week later, according...

The Interior Minister of Libya’s internationally recognised government accused Russia of fueling the ongoing war with mercenaries Sunday and urged the US to increase efforts to resolve the crisis....

The Egyptian judiciary decided Sunday to release the former justice minister who served in the Mohammed Morsi government, reports Anadolu Agency. Prosecutors ruled former Justice Minister Ahmed Suleiman would...

Malta’s armed forces have started cooperating with Libya’s coastguard to turn back migrant boats heading into Malta’s search and rescue zone, a local newspaper and Reuters reported on Sunday,...

The head of Sudan’s National Umma Party, Sadiq Al-Mahdi, called for finding a mechanism to extradite ousted president, Omar Al-Bashir, to the International Criminal Court (ICC), and held official...

The prison conditions in Egypt may have directly led to the death of former President Mohamed Morsi, and may be placing the health and lives of thousands more prisoners...

Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, has warned Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi against injustice. Al-Tayeb reminded the Egyptian president that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)...

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday evening that the meeting with representatives of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to resolve the long dispute over the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has...

The Algerian army’s Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaid Salah, accused the regime of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and its followers of trying to “undermine trust between the...

Tunisia’s main parties rejected a proposal on Thursday by the moderate Islamist party Ennahda to name a prime minister from its own ranks following its victory in last month’s...

A UN report has found that a foreign air force was behind an air strike on a Libyan migrant detention centre which killed over 50 people, with strong suspicion...

Activists across the world are planning a mass hunger strike this weekend in solidarity with the 60,000 political prisoners currently being detained in Egypt.

The new Tunisian president, Kais Saied, has seemingly begun to fulfil his electoral promise to fight corruption and intolerance of misusing public funds. Sami Fehri, the media tycoon and...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has only 5.2 per cent of its total electricity generation capacities, the World Bank said on Wednesday. The Bank added in...

The National Magistrates’ Syndicate (SNM) has suspended a two-week strike and said in a statement that the boycott of judicial work could be suspended from Wednesday. In a statement, the SNM said...

The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan agreed on Wednesday to work toward resolving their dispute over the filling and operation of a massive dam project in Ethiopia...

The Algerian Parliament yesterday began discussing the draft amendments to the hydrocarbons law amid student protests rejecting the proposal, Anadolu Agency reported. Energy Minister Mohammed Arkab explained to members...

The Moroccan Association of Fine Arts and the Moroccan Syndicate of Professional Fine Artists on Monday criticised artists who accepted an invitation to participate in the 4th Edition of...

The Ayat girl, who murdered a microbus driver who tried to rape her, has been released from prison, according to Shorouk News. When he saw his daughter, her father...