Many schools in Libya have reopened as teachers return to work following a union announcement on Saturday night about the suspension of the strike that started in September. “Classes...

Tunisian politicians, journalists and activists called for the country’s Tourism Minister Roni Trabelsi to be sacked after he was accused of attempting to normalise ties with Israel, Anadolu reported...

Twenty-two people have been killed and dozens injured in a bus accident in Tunisia, the interior ministry announced yesterday. The ministry added that the bus was travelling through Tunisia’s...

Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni who was jailed for “premarital sex and having an abortion” celebrated on Saturday night her wedding to Sudanese human rights activist Rifaat al-Amin, a few...

Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al- Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb said the country’s largest religious establishment is subjected to an unprecedented campaign of persecution and media blockade by the country’s...

Unlike previous years, Sudan’s women welcomed a “16 Days of Combating Violence Against Women” campaign as good news, after the country’s Sovereign Council and cabinet approved a bill ending...

Egyptian security forces have arrested the famous businessman and former intelligence officer, Yasser Selim, who has been known as a ‘media emperor’ after buying several famous channels and mass...

Libyan sources revealed to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Russia has been holding secret talks with the UN-recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), to release Russian nationals captured this year....

A large UAE arms shipment has recently been sent to Libya’s renegade military commander, Khalifa Haftar, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported Egyptian sources saying on Friday. Haftar has been fighting against...

Friday saw the commencement of the 41st Friday of demonstrations by the Algerian Popular Movement in Algiers and other cities. The purpose of these demonstrations is to demand the...

The Government of Sudan has decided to extend the agreement on the transfer and export of South Sudan’s oil through Sudanese territory until March 2022. A delegation from the...

South African Minister of Public Enterprises Patricia De Lille yesterday said “there must be an urgent call for concrete action and legislation to comprehensively liberate Palestine”. Speaking at an...

Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika dismantled the country’s nuclear programme in response to Western pressure and to serve Israel’s interest, presidential candidate Abdelkader Ben Kreina send yesterday. Speaking at...

Spanish shipping company Rodman has been selling military vessels as civilian ships in an effort to avoid arms exports controls, media sources have said. Many of these ships were...

Sudanese transitional authorities approved a law on Thursday to dissolve the former ruling party and repealed a public order law used to regulate women’s behaviour under ex-president Omar al-Bashir,...

Libya’s internationally recognised government and Turkey have signed an agreement on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea that could complicate Ankara’s disputes over energy exploration with other countries, Reuters reports. Turkey,...

Three journalists arrested in a café in Cairo have been charged with disseminating false news and joining a banned group. Solafa Magdi, her husband Hossam Al-Sayyad and Mohamed Salah,...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi will appoint a navy commander as his vice president in a role that has not been occupied since 2013, according to a report published...

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Senate last week rejected a resolution to join an academic boycott of Israel. The ballot, held on Friday, saw 68 per cent of the...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday appointed 16 new provisional governors and 23 deputies, including the governors of the coastal cities of Alexandria and Marsa Matrouh. Local media reported...

Official sources yesterday reported that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was involved in the recent tensions flared at the Egyptian intelligence. France’s Intelligence Online recently reported that the Crown...

Forces loyal to the internationally recognised- Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) controlled on Wednesday Al-Fil oil field in the southwest of the country as part of the ongoing...

Algeria’s National Union of Judges threatened in a statement on Tuesday to resume its strike “in a harsher way”, as the justice minister has renounced his obligations towards the...

Tunisia called on Wednesday people with clear consciences worldwide and all peace-loving actors to “take serious action” in defence of the Palestinian just cause. This came in a message...

The Sudanese General Attorney Taj Al-Ser Al-Hebr pledged to bring to trial the killers during the Public Command sit-in dispersal that took place 3  June, killing and injuring dozens...

An Egyptian military court sentenced top Islamist militant suspect Hisham al-Ashmawy to death on Wednesday after convicting him of orchestrating several high-profile attacks, the armed forces said, Reuters reports....

Almost half of the mothers in Gaza feel they are unable to make long-term plans and pressure their children to give up their plans to continue their education in...

After 167 days of forcible disappearance housing researcher Ibrahim Ezz-Eldin has appeared in the Supreme State Security Prosecution. Ezz-Eldin was kidnapped by plain clothes police officers on 12 June...

Egypt is misusing counter-terror legislation to prosecute critics of the regime, according to a 60-page report released by Amnesty International. “In Egypt today the Supreme State Security Prosecution ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday called on Egypt to respect freedom of the press, days after Egyptian security forces raided the office of independent news website...

The United States declared that US officials met the seditious General Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the forces in eastern Libya, while Washington is trying to pressure him to...

Egyptian Minister of Public Business Sector, Hisham Tawfik, yesterday said that his ministry would change the zoning of 182 plots of industrial land owned by public sector companies and...