A concert by Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred, who has been repeatedly accused of rape, has been cancelled in Egypt after a social media outcry, reflecting a growing resolve to...

A military source announced on Thursday that the militia of Major General Khalifa Haftar fired four missiles at units of the Libyan army stationed in western Sirte, without causing...

A source with the Transitional Sovereign Council in Sudan denied reports that the council discussed normalisation with Israel earlier this week nor will it discuss it during a meeting...

Tunisia on Thursday announced that it will be launching its first satellite on the 65th Independence anniversary in March next year, local media reported, Anadolu Agency reported. “All tests were completed...

The Sudanese authorities yesterday imposed a comprehensive curfew in the cities of Port Sudan and Suakin following protests that broke out over the dismissal of Governor Saleh Ammar of...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that his country never truly considered Turkey as a strategic ally but only as a close partner, amid growing tensions between the...

A 24-year-old Egyptian woman has been killed after a group of men dragged her through the streets with their van.

Spokesman for the Turkish presidency Ibrahim Kalin has announced: “If Egypt reveals a willingness to act with a positive agenda on regional issues, Turkey would not leave it unanswered.” This came in an interview with a local...

Reports of another man arriving at the scene led the kidnapper to run away, saving the child

A source in Egyptian state TV told the New Khaleej that authorities have issued new instructions to the media to water down criticism of Turkey. The source, who spoke on condition of...

The Committee to Protect Journalism has called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release the brother of the editor-in-chief of local news website Darb. Kamal El-Balshy was arrested on his...

The mass arrests and heavy-handed response to the 20 September protesters show how deeply Egypt’s authorities fear mass protests, writes MENA researcher for Human Rights Watch Amr Magdi. “What...

A number of Egyptian journalists have called on the country’s Journalists’ Syndicate to immediately intervene and protect its members, especially those who have been detained by authorities for conducting...

Egypt’s Minister of Immigration Nabila Makram has said that she is seeking details from Amman regarding an attack on an Egyptian citizen in Jordan, local news agencies reported yesterday....

Tunisian authorities on Monday recovered the bodies of 13 migrants, a day after their boat sank off the country’s coast. Nine other persons are still missing, the spokesman for the courts...

Gaza’s interior ministry said on Monday it was in contact with the Egyptian government to discuss opening the Rafah crossing “permanently”. “The Rafah crossing has been partially operational since...

More than 2,000 Moroccans signed an online petition opposing a proposal to increase the number of parliament members. Eight political parties have recently submitted to the Ministry of the...

The governor of Tunisia’s Kasserine province was sacked on Tuesday following protests over the death of a local resident during the demolition of his unlicensed store, reports Anadolu Agency....

Years after busy Mogadishu roads were closed causing traffic snarl-ups, Somalia on Tuesday opened the streets that had been blocked to contain terror attacks from al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab militant...

Dozens of angry protesters in the city set fire to tyres and blocked major roads according to local news sources

Kuwaiti authorities have extradited three Egyptian opposition figures who called for protests against Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, local newspaper Al-Qabas reports. Quoting senior Kuwaiti sources, the report said the national...

The UN Mission in Libya has announced that the country’s political and military rivals will hold direct talks early next month. Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and...

An Egyptian writer died a few days after he was released from pretrial detention, which stirred up questions among Egyptian activists on the causes of his death. Amin El...

Tunisia may have maintained its status as “the icon of the Arab Spring” over the past decade, but the recent increase in violent crime across the country has sparked...

A London-based newspaper has apologised to the Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament, Rached Ghannouchi, for publishing “false allegations” against him more than a year ago, Anadolu has reported. In...

Hundreds of Sudanese army and police officers who have been “arbitrarily” dismissed from their posts during the rule of ousted President Omar Al-Bashir have gathered outside the headquarters of...

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok has accused the US of undermining the country’s democratic transition through its economic sanctions, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. In an interview with the paper, Hamdok...

US President Donald Trump asked UAE Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Zayed to encourage other countries in the region to build ties with Israel, Arab48 reported yesterday. In a statement issued on...

Egyptian MP Samir Ghattas has declared that Cairo will not host meetings for Palestinian factions without a detailed reconciliation or election plan. Speaking to Al-Watan Voice yesterday, Ghattas said: “The indicators...

Israeli media revealed that police officers from Morocco made a secret visit to Israel and agreed to establish a cooperation and hand over fleeing criminals. The Israeli Channel 12 reported that...

A Turkish company on Monday signed a 14-year contract in Somalia to operate and rehabilitate the port of its capital city, Mogadishu, local media reported on Monday, reports Anadolu...

Tunisian divers have discovered an almost intact World War 1 era French submarine, the Ariane, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1917. The Ariane was spotted last...