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Thousands join funeral prayers for Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi

The Head of the Tunisian Federation of Municipalities, Adnan Bouassida, said that the authorities arrested the Mayor of Mornag, Omar Al-Herbawi, at midnight on Saturday/Sunday, over the suicide of...

As many as 18 doctors have died in Egypt due to long working hours and exhaustion this year, the Egyptian Medical Syndicate has said. The body explained that at...

The Sudanese army announced yesterday that it had seized a Yemeni boat loaded with weapons and ammunition in the Red Sea. A statement issued by the army spokesperson said...

Algeria expects its foreign trade surplus to exceed $17 billion by the end of the year and for exports of non-oil products to reach $7 billion. Prime Minister Ayman...

Leader in the Freedom and Change Coalition, Adel Khalafallah, yesterday condemned remarks made by the country's ruling military General Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan on Israel. On Thursday, Al-Burhan told AP that he would...

Tunisia is struggling to revive its public finances as dissatisfaction grows, inflation reaches 8.6 per cent and there are food shortages in stores

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said yesterday that "Palestine is a national issue" for his country, pointing out that "there is no Algerian young or elderly who does not support...

Egypt has announced plans to host the 2036 Summer Olympics said Sports Minister Ashraf Soby yesterday during a reception in Cairo for International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach....

The President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan called on the African Union (AU) on Friday to "correct" its decision to freeze his country's activities in...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez surprised observers after he ignored the Moroccan autonomy proposal to solve the Saharawi issue and concentrated on the United Nations (UN) resolutions regarding the...

The Tunisian Workers' Party announced on Friday that Laws No. 54 and 55 are "fascist and are a serious threat" to the people's aspirations for freedom and democracy. The...

A leader of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement and former Foreign Minister, Rafic Abdel Salam, revealed a plan to assassinate the Movement's leader, Rached Ghannouchi, and his deputy, Ali Larayedh, in...

Riadh Chaibi, the adviser to the President of the Ennahda Movement and a leader in the Opposition "National Salvation Front" said that the Movement is innocent of the "dispatch"...

The Afek Tounes Party announced, on Thursday, its intention to boycott the early legislative elections on 17th December. By so doing, Afeq Tounes becomes the eleventh party to announce...

Riadh Chaibi, the adviser to the president of Ennahda Movement and a leader in the opposition National Salvation Front said that the movement is innocent of the "dispatch" case,...

The head of Tunisia's Ennahda, Rached Ghannouchi, has defended the movement by pointing out that it has no link to sending people to "hotbeds of tension", and nor do...

Morocco has been given drone technology by Israel as part of a security and military cooperation deal between Rabat and Tel Aviv. The deal was signed by Israeli Defence...

Ennahda movement in Tunisia has condemned the arrest of its deputy chairman and former Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh, Anadolu has reported. The arrest, said Ennahda, is only in the...

Tunisian authorities released on Tuesday former parliamentarian for the Ennahda Party, Habib Al-Louz, after the Anti-Terrorism Police interrogated him. Tunisia has detained a number of Ennahda officials on suspicion...

Algeria yesterday launched a campaign to promote its candidacy for a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council for the term 2024-2025. Elections are due to be held...

A US airstrike in central Somalia killed 27 Al-Shabaab terrorists, the American military said on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. The airstrike was conducted on 18 September "at the...

Egyptian authorities will release 28 pretrial detainees, including journalists and five women, Anadolu news agency reported. A statement issued by the Presidential Amnesty Committee said the committee had coordinated...

A record number of Jews from around the world have come on pilgrimage to Morocco to commemorate the death anniversary of an esteemed Rabbi, Haim Pinto. According to Morocco...

In a historic first, Egypt's Al-Azhar has appointed a female adviser to the institution's Grand Imam, Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb. Dr Nahla Al-Saeedy was appointed as the Imam's adviser on...

The Head of the Tunisian National Salvation Front, Ahmed Najib Chebbi, believes that the new electoral law came to limit the freedom of participation in legislative elections. This came...

A year since the Egyptian government's National Human Rights Strategy was launched, Amnesty International has said it paints a deeply misleading picture of the human rights situation in the...

Egypt refused to participate in the consultative meeting of Arab foreign ministers, which was held in New York as a result of its rejection of the national unity government...

The Public Prosecution Office in Tunisia decided not to detain the Speaker of the dissolved Parliament Rached Ghannouchi in connection with suspicions of sending jihadists to Syria. Ghannouchi was...

Tunisia's anti-terrorism police detained former Prime Minister and senior official in the Ennahda Party, Ali Laarayedh, for one day after an investigation into suspicions of sending jihadists to Syria,...

Egypt's Ministry of Social Solidarity has said that it will package the leftover food at the end of the upcoming UN climate summit in November and distribute it to...

Hundreds of Chadians were detained on the streets of a Libyan town for a ninth day in retaliation for the Chad government's arrest of four Libyan men on suspicion...