Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah was named Player of the Year by England’s Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) yesterday, becoming the first Egyptian to receive the award. Salah was rewarded for his performances which...

The chairman of BDS South Africa’s board will receive the Order of Luthuli (Silver) from President Cyril Ramaphosa for “his brilliant contribution to academic research and to the fight...

Ousted Egypt President Mohamed Morsi will die in prison if violations against him continue, a Swiss based human rights group has warned in a new report. Morsi has been...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir yesterday discussed with African Union Peace and Security Commissioner, Ismail Sharqi, the United Nations Security Council decision to reduce United Nations African Union Mission in...

The governing commission of the Tunisian General Labour Union will hold a meeting on Monday to support the secondary education sector. While well-informed Tunisian labour union sources have ruled...

On Sunday, Cairo denounced UNESCO’s intention to grant Mahmoud Shukan, a photojournalist and prisoner in Egypt, the Freedom of Press Prize, a denunciation that the photojournalist’s lawyer described as...

Morocco’s Prime Minister Saadeddine Othmani announced yesterday in Rabat the launch of an internal dialogue of the Justice and Development Party which is intended to overcome differences between its...

Libya is considering whether to intervene in a $450 million deal that French major Total announced last month to buy Marathon Oil’s stake in the country’s Waha concessions, several...

A Libyan crude pipeline owned by the al-Waha oil company, feeding the port of Es Sider, was set on fire on Saturday causing the loss of between 70,000 barrels...

French President Emmanuel Macron called Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday to discuss the Syrian crisis, Sisi’s office said. Macron addressed the military strike that France, the United...

Tunisia has reopened its consulate in the Libyan capital, the Libya foreign ministry said on Saturday, the latest mission to return to Tripoli. Most embassies left Tripoli in 2014...

The Algerian Ministry of Defence announced on Friday that one of the leaders of a terrorist group active in the African Sahel has surrendered to the military authorities in...

“FIFA’s Inspection Committee has been impressed with the infrastructure of his country and the planned projects in order to be able to host the World Cup,” said Moulay Hafid...

The closure of Tunisian media outlets and the expulsion of journalists working for them, most recently the private newspaper Assarih, caused a great deal of anger among Tunisian media...

Somalia’s prime minister owns shares in a controversial port currently at the centre of a crisis with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Garowe Online reported today. An investigation conducted...

Egypt has failed to hold a joint meeting between the Hamas and Palestinian Authority (PA) delegations in Cairo. Fatah leader and member of the PA Ayman Al-Raqab told ERM News yesterday...

Ethiopia and Sudan have ignored an Egyptian invitation for a meeting this week in Cairo to resume discussions on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Last week, the Egyptian Foreign Minister,...

Morocco and Turkey have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the exchange of judicial information on countering organised crime, terrorism and drug trafficking. The Moroccan prosecutor’s office said...

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour has been relieved of his duties yesterday following the issuance of a presidential decree, Sudan News Agency reported. On Wednesday, Ghandour updated parliament on...

Rockets hit Libya’s main airport and damaged a plane as it was waiting to take off early on Thursday, a security force said, underscoring fragile security. One rocket hit an...

Al-Mesryoon, Egyptian prisons released 677 prisoners following the presidential pardon to mark Police Day and the January Revolution. The High Commission for Amnesty granted conditional release to 591 inmates. The...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned its ambassador and consul-general in Algeria to discuss the situation of Malian immigrants in Algeria. BBC, Finance Minister, Abdel Rahman Sila, said: “Malian citizens...

Some 145 officers from Sierra Leone’s Formed Police Units (FPU) have been deployed in Somalia’s port city of Kismayo, Garowe Online reported yesterday. The new batch of officers will...

Egyptian armed forces yesterday announced that they had targeted Nasser Abu Zaqul, the leader of Wilayat Sinai, the Daesh-affiliated group which operates in the Sinai Peninsula. The armed forces...

Sudan has filed a complaint at the United Nations Security Council against Egypt after it allowed residents of the disputed Halayeb triangle to vote in last month’s presidential elections....

On Wednesday, a workshop was launched to train prison officials in Morocco on the “treatment of prisoners and the prevention of torture.” According to Anadolu reporter, the one-day workshop...

Diamonds found inside a meteorite which exploded over Sudan could prove the existence of a “lost planet”, scientists have announced. Following years of research, a new study has found...

The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shawki Allam, has issued a fatwa forbidding the purchasing of Facebook likes, declaring it contrary to Islamic law. The Grand Mufti’s ruling was published...

Former Israeli military officers have been providing training to martial arts practitioners in Morocco, pro-Palestinian groups revealed at a joint press conference yesterday, according to Arab48. Despite Morocco and...

Saudi Arabia is holding talks with the US over sending troops into Syria as part of a wider international coalition, the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir has said. “We...

The Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed El-Beltagy to one year in prison for obstructing court proceedings. The former MP was accused of causing a disturbance...

The Egyptian parliament passed a bill to regulate the legal procedures to seize, manage and dispose assets of those who are classified as “terrorist organisations” by the courts. According...