A Tunisian MP has revealed that he rejected an invitation to lunch with the former State Secretary Madeline Albright to talk about the participation of Tunisian youth in political...

A Spanish newspaper has revealed the details of a case before the Spanish judiciary, where Moroccan officials and their spouses face charges of transferring funds donated by Morocco to...

On Tuesday, Tunisia’s former interior minister, Abdallah Kallel, appeared before the transitional justice court in Tunisia, which specialises in investigating human rights violations committed during the regime of former...

Algeria’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia be held in custody after he faced a judge over a corruption investigation, state TV reported, sending some...

Thousands have taken to social media to stand with Sudanese protesters and to raise awareness of the brutal crackdown on demonstrators in the midst of a nation-wide internet blackout....

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi may shuffle military officials who are currently occupying senior posts, Arabi21 reported citing military sources. Among those who may be removed from their posts is the...

The counter narcotics and organised crime sector of the Egyptian Ministry of Interior has announced the seizure of 3.4 billion Egyptian pounds ($178 million) from money laundering crimes through...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday received the President of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder in Cairo and discussed ways to settle the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the presidency said...

Thousands of Algerian students yesterday marched across the country against ousted president Abdel Aziz Bouteflika’s allies, the Anadolu Agency reported. According to the agency, more than 1,000 students marched...

Egypt’s Court of Cassation on Monday upheld 25-year prison sentences against 22 members of the Muslim Brotherhood including the group’s Mufti Abdul Rahman Al-Barr, a judicial source said. The...

Women’s rights campaigner and activist Nahid Jabrallah has told the German publication Deutsche Welle that the Rapid Support Forces, part of Sudan’s security services, raped numerous Sudanese women and...

Hamas has denied reports that an Egyptian delegation is planning to visit Gaza, Quds Press reported yesterday. “Hamas supports any Egyptian efforts aiming to arrange the internal Palestinian home...

A top US envoy will head to Sudan to encourage talks between Sudan’s military rulers and protesters, the State Department announced yesterday. According to the statement, the US Assistant...

The UN Security Council on Tuesday strongly condemned the recent violence in Sudan and called for the immediate cessation of violence against civilians, reports Anadolu Agency. In a statement,...

Algeria’s interim president Abdelkader Bensalah dismissed the President of the Supreme Court, Slimane Boudi, and Deputy General, Ben Abid Al-Wardi, simultaneously, Monday. Algerian state television reported that Bensalah appointed Abdul Rashid...

The Forces of Freedom and Change leading the protests in Sudan have announced the cessation of civil disobedience as of 3:30 pm Tuesday. A well-informed source said this move...

At least seven people including two children died after a migrant boat sank off the Greek island of Lesbos, local media reports said on Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. According...

At least 525 people have been infected with the cholera bacteria in Ethiopia, according to health sources on Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. The Ethiopian Public Health Institute confirmed that...

Reuters has reported that Egypt, Jordan and Morocco have informed the Trump administration they will attend a US-led conference in Bahrain this month on proposals for boosting the Palestinian...

Migrant domestic workers are seen as less than human in Lebanon, the director of a new film that exposes widespread abuse of such women said ahead of a screening...

A ship carrying 75 refugees has been in stranded in international waters near Tunisia for 11 days after authorities refused to allow it to dock. The Tunisian Red Crescent...

An Egyptian social media campaign standing in solidarity with Syrian refugees has sparked on Twitter in response to lawyer Samir Sabry’s calls for new laws to strictly surveil Syrian...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) enlisted a businessman to spy on the White House as part of a scheme to gain influence over President Donald Trump’s foreign policy in...

Is Egypt's economy crashing?

An Egyptian private travel company has launched a new “paid service” for the residents of the occupied Gaza Strip via the Egypt-Palestine Rafah crossing. The company, Hala for Tourism...

The Sudanese authorities has deported three leaders of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) to Juba, the capital of South Sudan, following their release from police. The Sudanese Transitional Military...

Egypt’s annual urban consumer price inflation jumped to 14.1% in May from 13% in April, official statistics showed on Monday, rise analysts said was greater than expected and prompted...

On Saturday the sentence of Ahmed Saddouma, who was 17 when he was arrested and accused of terror offences and the attempted murder of a federal judge, was reduced...

Twitter user Ali Storz has found a shrine to Sudan underneath a bridge in the UAE designed to give whoever found it a “crash course” on the atrocities taking...

Djibouti’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dhiauddin Bamakhrama yesterday denied media reports claiming Iranian warships had anchored in the country’s territorial waters, adding that relations were still severed with Tehran....

The Supreme Administrative Court in Egypt has ruled that the intelligence services, defence and interior ministries and the National Apparatus must agree on investments in Sinai, the New Khaleej...

Speaker of the Egyptian House of Representatives Ali Abdel-Aal stated that Human Rights Watch (HRW) is a “politicised” organisation and is in violation of its charter. Abdel-Aal indicated at...