The Libyan channel Al-Ahrar TV yesterday reported that Afriqiyah Airways had suspended its flights from Mitiga International Airport to Sabha airport after the militia of renegade General Khalifa Haftar prevented a...

Two days of talks between representatives of Libya’s rival administrations that took place in Egypt this week were “positive” and paved the way for further face-to-face discussions, the United...

A UN diplomat reported that the UAE had increased arms shipments directed to the militias of Libya’s Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar in an effort to save his military campaign...

Sudanese political forces yesterday called on the chairman of Sovereignty Council of Sudan, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, to accept the US offer to normalise relations with Israel in exchange for removing Sudan from...

Egypt has sentenced two TikTok influencers to six years in prison for “inciting prostitution”. Sherifa Rafat and her daughter Nora Hisham, known as Sherry Hanam and Zamorrdoa, have also...

Sudan blows up 300,000 illegal weapons in a single explosion

Egyptian police killed a man in Luxor during a raid on Wednesday after he objected to police physically and verbally assaulting his elderly father and arrested his brother. Eyewitnesses say...

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) yesterday announced that it had agreed to supply Egypt with 25 million doses of its Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine through Pharco, one of the...

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly yesterday ordered his government’s relevant ministries to work on “necessary preparations ahead of possible torrential rains across the country”. His remarks came during a...

An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced six Muslim Brotherhood members to death over crimes including allegedly killing policemen in 2016, Anadolu Agency reported. Reporting Egyptian media, Anadolu Agency stated:...

Up to 2.1 million people in Somalia are expected to face an acute food insecurity Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or even worse outcomes through December 2020, a new report...

Record floods in Sudan have affected nearly one-third of cultivated land and about 3 million people from agricultural households, worsening already acute levels of food insecurity, the UN Food...

Demonstrators in Sudan told Anadolu Agency that police on Wednesday opened fire against protesters who were headed to the Prime Ministry’s office in Khartoum to demand the departure of...

A 12-year-old Egyptian boy died on Monday from a sudden heart attack having played the online game known as PUBG for hours without rest, according to local media reports....

The Cairo Administrative Court has issued a ruling to expel five detained lawyers from the Bar Association, according to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. The decision includes Osama Morsi, son of the late President Mohamed...

The man was arrested after the video circulated online and he was identified

The Sudanese army said its troops repelled an attack by the Sudan Liberation Army – Abdul Wahid Mohamed Al-Nur (SLA-AW) in South Darfur which did not sign the peace...

Former UN diplomat and former Algerian Foreign Minister, Lakhdar Brahimi, hailed the global support for the Palestinian cause, Al-Watan Voice reported yesterday. His remarks came after he handed over a letter to...

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Monday spoke about reactivating the death penalty after executions were suspended in the country for nearly 29 years. Saied’s announcement came after a meeting...

US Defence Secretary Mark Esper will this week visit a number of countries in the Maghreb, on a tour that aims to confirm Washington’s commitment to the region’s security....

Mayar Sherif became the first Egyptian woman to appear in the main draw of a Grand Slam when she faced former world number one Karolina Pliskova on Tuesday but...

The National Union for the Algerian Bar Association scheduled a two-day court boycott starting today in support of lawyers in the Algerian capital, who announced a strike to demand “respect for the right to a defence”....

Crude oil production in Libya jumped nearly threefold from below 100,000 barrels per day last week to around 250,000 bpd – a week after the blockade on the country’s...

Algeria’s largest Islamist party said that it will vote against in the referendum on constitutional changes that is set to be held in November. The Movement of Society for...

The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) yesterday condemned the killing of two Palestinian fishermen by the Egyptian army. IUMS Secretary-General Ali Al-Qaradaghi said in a statement that “the...

The second round of Libyan talks are due to begin today in the Moroccan resort town of Bouznika, south of Rabat, with the participation of representatives of the High Council of State...

The Libyan African Aviation Holding Company has announced that the authorities in Tripoli and their counterparts in Tunis will reopen the air corridor between the two countries next month....

The European Union yesterday expressed its disappointment and concern over the resignation of Lebanon’s prime minister–designate, while urging the Mediterranean country to form a new government in order to obtain...

Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi warned on Sunday of the consequences of instability in Egypt and attempts to “destroy” the country after a number of limited protests took place in some...

A Somali official on Monday lauded Turkish support to Guled Abdi, a young inventor from the East African country who was invited to attend Teknofest, Turkey’s largest aerospace and...

The Gulf States and Egypt planned to attack Qatar before imposing their blockade in 2017, a senior Qatari official revealed in an Al Jazeera documentary broadcast on Sunday. “There...

Israel “is not a normal state”, the leader of the National Umma Party in Sudan, Sadiq Al-Mahdi, has said. “For determined reasons, Israel is not a normal state, but...