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Libyan warlord, Khalifa Haftar's militia, on Monday, surrounded the Sabha Court of Appeal in southern Libya ahead of a session to hear an appeal by Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi against...

An extremist has issued a death threat against the Secretary General of the Tunisian General Labour Union, Noureddine Taboubi. The threat was made in a popular cafe near Tunis....

Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, visited his country's border area with Ethiopia on Monday, following an attack that killed six soldiers, according to local media, and reported by...

The French judiciary yesterday accused local company Nexa Technologies of embroilment in "acts of torture and forced disappearances." Nexa was recently reported to have sold cyber-surveillance equipment to the...

A Libyan court in Benghazi yesterday rejected an appeal filed against the candidacy of retired Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar in the country's presidential election next month. Local media reported...

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), on Monday, condemned a visit by Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, to the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to celebrate...

Al Jazeera calls on Egypt to release its journalist Hisham Abdelaziz who is being held "on baseless allegations, despite exceeding the legal period of pretrial detention stated in the...

Morocco is preparing to establish two units to manufacture drones using Israeli technologies in the country, local media reported. Israel24 news site quoted Moroccan media outlets as saying that a...

Egyptian air strikes hit North Sinai yesterday morning, reports the New Arab, and the military carried out raids in the cities of Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid. The army regularly targets...

Algeria and Libya yesterday agreed to reopen the Al-Dibdab border crossing, which has been closed for seven years. The Algerian Interior Minister Kamel Beldjoud yesterday met his Libyan counterpart...

Egypt has banned flights from south African countries after the first case of the new coronavirus variant was detected in Belgium in a traveller returning from Egypt via Turkey....

The Egyptian army has allowed residents in North Sinai to return to their homes five years after evacuating them so that soldiers could confront "militants and terrorist operations" in...

Tunisia's Ennahda movement on Friday called for holding "early" general election along with "serious" national dialogue on the electoral law and the Constitutional Court. The movement said in a...

Libya's Foreign Minister has apparently told her Moroccan counterpart that her country had conceded the nomination for membership of the African Peace and Security Council for the term 2022-2025,...

Algeria's army chief of staff Said Chengriha on Sunday started an official visit to Egypt for talks with Egyptian military officials on issues of common interest, according to the...

The US has appointed an ambassador to Sudan for the first time in 25 years, after Washington upgraded its diplomatic representation with Khartoum from Chargé d'Affairs to ambassador. According...

Algeria's early local elections recorded low voter turnout, according to the electoral commission on Sunday, Anadolu reports. Mohamed Charfi, the head of the Independent National Election Authority, said voter...

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Sudan on Sunday suspended flights with a number of African countries due to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus discovered in South Africa, Anadolu reports....

On Friday, the Sudanese National Umma Party (NUP) announced its support for the political agreement between the President of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdullah...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has hinted at the possibility of Syria's return to the Arab League during the next Arab summit in March, Anadolu Agency reports. "Syria is supposed...

Two officers in the Sudanese army were killed on today in armed clashes with Ethiopian forces on the border between the two countries, Anadolu Agency reports. A Sudanese military...

The defence team of former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz announced on Friday that the judiciary had denied a request for the provisional release of the president. He...

Speaker of Tunisian Parliament Rached Ghannouchi has blamed President Kais Saied for the death of MP Imad Al-Khumairi's wife after she was deprived of receiving treatment on health insurance, The...

The president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Dr Ahmad Al-Raysuni, on Friday strongly condemned Moroccan-Israeli relations. In a statement, he asserted: "Morocco is currently at a crossroads....

The death of former Egyptian MP Hamdy Hassan, 63, inside his prison cell has caused a widescale social media campaign against the Egyptian regime led by Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi,...

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) on Friday condemned the defence deal recently signed between Israel and Morocco, which lays the foundation for security cooperation, intelligence...

Ethiopia has announced new restrictions on the sharing of information about the war in the north of the country, which stipulate that battlefront updates can only come from the...

The Turkish Foreign Minister, on Friday, discussed the latest situation in Ethiopia with his Ethiopian counterpart over the phone, according to diplomatic sources and Anadolu News Agency reports. Mevlut...

Israel, on Friday, imposed a travel ban on most African states, after reporting cases of a new and potentially vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, Reuters reports....

The Sudanese Congress Party, on Friday, said political detainees in the country have staged an open-ended hunger strike to protest their detention since 25 October and the "denial of...

Somalia's international partners, on Friday, called for the ongoing elections for the Lower House of Parliament to be completed in a transparent, inclusive, and credible manner before the set...

The United Nations mission in Libya, on Friday, condemned an attack on a court in the south-western city of Sebha, Anadolu News Agency reports. "Alarmed by" the reported attack...