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The Committee to Protect Journalists has welcomed the release of Egyptian journalists Mohamed Salah and Abdo Fayad but called on the Egyptian authorities to release 23 other reporters still in prison....

The Sudanese police investigator in the trial of the 1989 coup plotters, Colonel Jamal Khalifa, submitted documents on Tuesday related to the investigation committee's address to government agencies about...

The Adalah Centre for Rights and Freedoms has launched a human campaign calling on the Egyptian authorities to halt the issuance and implementation of executions of those held on...

After an extended detention, facing corruption charges, prominent Sudanese politician and former Cabinet Minister, Khalid Omer Yousif, was released on bail on Tuesday, a lawyer on his defence team...

An international report states that the Moroccan-Algerian military arms race will continue due to the deteriorating relations between the two countries and the continuous escalation, at a time when...

Egypt's Administrative Court has rejected a request by former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh to end his solitary confinement, it was reported on Monday. This is the second...

A Sudanese court yesterday charged six members of the General Intelligence Service in the murder case of a university student during popular protests in January 2019 against the rule...

A source from inside the National Council of Human Rights has told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that a presidential pardon will be issued today for another group of prisoners in Egypt to mark...

The Egyptian Ministry of Endowments yesterday retracted its decision not to allow the Tahajjud prayer in the last ten days of the blessed month of Ramadan in mosques and...

The Spanish Foreign Minister yesterday said that he "does not want to fuel futile differences" with Algeria after Madrid changed its position regarding the Western Sahara and backed Morocco's...

Relations between Egypt and Algeria are "at stake" due to stark differences in views regarding the Libyan file, an Egyptian diplomatic source revealed to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news site. The source said...

Tunisia is facing a "stifling political crisis" that represents an "imminent, and grave danger" unprecedented in the country's modern history, President Kais Saied's former chief of staff warned yesterday....

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) on Monday donated 400 more packages of food to vulnerable Muslims in South Sudan as part of aid provided during the Muslim...

More than 170 civilians were killed in renewed tribal clashes in Sudan's western Darfur province, according to a local aid group on Monday, and Anadolu News Agency reports. Adam...

Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki said that the current President, Kais Saied, has lost his legitimacy and may resort to falsifying the results of the upcoming elections. In an...

The Tunisian Order of Lawyers called yesterday on the authorities to criminalise normalisation with Israel, Anadolu has reported. The council of the Order reiterated its "principled stand about all...

The war between Russia and Ukraine has put the Egyptian economy under pressure. The government in Cairo announced last month that it had requested support from the International Monetary...

A huge oil field has been discovered off the coast of Morocco by British company Europa Oil & Gas, Spain's Motorpasion website has reported. The reserves in the field...

The popularity of Tunisian President Kais Saied has declined since August to reach its lowest level since his election in 2019, a new poll has revealed. Conducted by Insights...

Libya's Fathi Bashagha, who was appointed prime minister by the eastern-based parliament last month, has called on the residents of the Oil Crescent region to resume oil exports. Bashagha yesterday met...

New images appear to show signs of torture on the body of prominent Egyptian economist Ayman Hadhoud, including that his skull was fractured before he died. The pictures were...

The Egyptian government has released nine Coptic Christians who were arrested after a protest demanding that a church be rebuilt in Minya governorate. The nine protesters were interrogated whilst...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune yesterday renewed his support for the Libyan government led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh. "Dbeibeh's government possesses international legitimacy," Tebboune told reporters in Algiers, adding that his country...

The Omani Foreign Ministry yesterday said it had facilitated the release of 14 foreigners who were held by the Houthi group in the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa, and...

Egypt's Public Prosecution yesterday  released 41 political activists from pretrial detention, two days after President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said the country needs to engage in "political dialogue", local human...

The Tunisians for Democracy Coalition yesterday rejected a presidential decree to amend the basic law of the country's election commission, saying the decree "completely cancels the commission's independence" and represents a...

Algeria will continue gas supply to Spain despite a diplomatic row with Madrid over Western Sahara, the country's president said on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reported. "We assure the Spanish...

Eri Kaneko, associate spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, announced on Friday that the international organisation hopes that Tunisia does not stray too far from democracy. Replying to a question...

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday issued a presidential order granting him powers to appoint a head of the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) before organising the popular...

The Sudanese authorities on Friday released 25 political detainees from a prison in the capital, Khartoum, as part of a measure to create a climate for dialogue between Sudanese...

Libyan security forces on Friday announced the release of 18 foreigners kidnapped to obtain a ransom for their release during a raid in the western part of the country....

Six people were killed on Friday by a blast at a seaside restaurant in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, an ambulance service official told Reuters. "So far we have carried six...