Drought and exportation increased the value of sacrificial animals during Eid al-Adha in Mauritania

Turkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) and a South African NGO on Sunday partnered to slaughter over 250 cows and sheep to be given to underprivileged communities in South Africa, says...

At least 16 al-Shabaab fighters were killed in Somalia after Somali special forces backed by Turkey trained forces attacked al-Shabaab positions in the region, state media said on Sunday,...

Flights were suspended Sunday at Libya’s Mitiga International Airport in capital Tripoli as Khalifa Haftar-affiliated forces violated the truce reached on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, Muslim religious holiday,...

Pope Francis urged governments around the world on Sunday to protect civilians caught in armed conflicts and spare places of humanitarian importance like hospitals and schools, Reuters reports. In conflicts from Syria to...

A car bomb explosion in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed three UN staff members and two other mission members on Saturday, the United Nations said, Reuters reports. The...

Sudan’s Transitional Military Council has decided to cancel death sentences against leaders of the north division of the People’s Liberation Movement. Spokesman for the Military Council, Shamsiddeen Kabbashi, said...

The number of candidacies for the Tunisian presidential elections yesterday reached 69, just hours before the closure of submissions at the headquarters of the Independent High Authority for Elections....

A body of political, civil, human rights and Islamic activists has been formed to warn the Moroccan government that conflict over the recently-passed Education Reform Bill will intensify in...

Egyptian mother Umm Zubeida has questioned by she is being held in prison for simply searching for her daughter who went missing. In a statement released by We record,...

An Egyptian court has extended the pretrial detention of prominent opposition member and former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh for another 45 days on charges of communicating with...

The University of Hertfordshire has become the latest British university to launch a branch in Egypt in what the British ambassador to Egypt has described as “a wonderful week”...

Adel Abdulwahab Abu Eisheh has died in Wadi Al-Natroun prison after being denied medical treatment for his liver disease and diabetes. Adel has become one of a number of...

The Sudanese Professionals Association said on Wednesday that it does not intend to participate in the transitional authority at the sovereign and executive levels (the Sovereign Council and the...

Karim Younes, the coordinator of Algeria’s National Commission for Dialogue and Mediation, revealed a request submitted to President Abdelkader Bensalah to dismiss the government as part of the truce...

Egypt’s interior ministry said yesterday that it has identified who it believes is the perpetrator behind a car bombing outside Cairo’s main cancer hospital this week that killed more...

As millions of Muslims don robes and flock to Mecca for hajj, a small counter movement to boycott the pilgrimage in protest at Saudi Arabia’s politics has won limited...

Two Israeli-made drones have been found downed over Libya, raising questions about Israel’s potential arming of Libyan factions in the country’s eight-year civil war. The two drones – Orbiter-3...

The President of Egypt has issued a resolution allocating 47 state-owned islands in the Red Sea to the army, stating that the land is of strategic military importance. ٤٧...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said yesterday that the country needs at least one trillion dollars for its expenses. The Egyptian president said in a speech on the sidelines...

Doha Badie, daughter of the Supreme Guide of Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie, said yesterday that her 76-year-old father sleeps on the ground in his cell in an Egyptian prison,...

Former Tunisian Head of Government and former Ennahda leader Hamadi Jebali presented his candidacy papers for the early presidential elections scheduled for mid-September. Jebali said in media statements that...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are providing Sudan 540,000 tonnes of wheat to support the country whose president was ousted earlier this year, their state news agencies...

The United States still needs to resolve longstanding issues with Sudan before it can consider removing it from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a senior State Department...

Nearly half of the population of Sudan and Jordan have considered emigrating because of widespread corruption and the deterioration of the economic conditions in their countries, according to a...

An official in the Libyan National Army (LNA) revealed yesterday that Turkish intelligence is operating within the capital Tripoli in order to support the interim Government of National Accord...

A terror attack on the Cairo institute for cancer on Sunday that killed 20 has shone a spotlight on the treatment of cancer patients in the country. According to...

Israel has successfully launched a satellite which will provide internet, TV and mobile services to the Middle East and Africa. The Amos-17 satellite was launched at 19:23 local time...

An MP with Tunisia’s Nidaa Tounes party announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to support Defence Minister Abdelkarim Zbidi in his presidential bid in September. Fatma Al-Masadi told...

An Algerian military court issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for former Defence Minister Khaled Nezzar and his son Lotfi. Both are charged with conspiracy and violating public order,...

The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi was the first person to donate to Cairo’s cancer institute, which was hit by a bomb that killed 20 people and injured 47...

Tunisia’s biggest political party Ennahda named a candidate for presidential elections on Tuesday, the first time the moderate Islamist party has put up a nominee for the post since...