Sudan’s transitional government has agreed a deal with rebel groups which ends 30 years of rule under Islamic law and Islam as the official state religion

There have been 2,723 enforced disappearances in five years in Egypt, according to a report released by the Egyptian Commission for Human Rights. These people have been forcibly disappeared...

A psychiatrist has died in Egypt’s Scorpion Prison after repeated requests for urgent medical care were ignored. Amr Ali Abu Khalil had a heart attack and repeatedly called on...

Morocco is reportedly hosting delegations representing the Libyan political rivals to discuss the country’s political deadlock and prepare for potential meetings in Geneva, Arabi21 reported yesterday. Quoting an AFP report, Arabi21 said diplomatic sources revealed...

Co-founder and head of the 37th Guernica Chambers of International Justice in London, Toby Cadman, has called on Egyptian authorities to “fully and unconditionally cooperate in the investigation” into...

Egypt has spent a total of 27 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.7 billion) on developing slum areas across the country over the past four years, the general coordinator of the...

The United States (US) has conditioned Sudan’s removal from a list of states sponsors of terrorism on its normalisation of diplomatic ties with Israel, Sudanese Foreign Minister, Omer Ismail,...

The Former Vice President of the Egyptian Football Association Ahmed Shobeir revealed that the African Cup of Nations has gone missing from the federation’s headquarters. Egypt retained the cup...

As many 101 people were killed and 46 others were injured as a result of heavy rains and floods since June, the Sudanese Ministry of Interior said. The ministry...

The Libyan army said on Sunday that that renegade General Khalifa Haftar’s forces have once again violated a cease-fire deal and targeted the country’s troops with multiple Grad missiles....

Police in Tunisia chased and shot dead three suspected militants after they attacked two police officers, killing one of them, in the coastal city of Sousse on Sunday, Reuters...

The Sudanese government and the People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM) have agreed on Friday to resume negotiations in Juba after a two-week suspension. This came in a statement issued by...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Egyptian authorities to open a full investigation into the causes of the deaths of four detainees in three days inside Egyptian prisons. The organisation’s...

Two Libyan families filed a civil lawsuit in a US federal court late on Thursday accusing Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), of war crimes, human...

A public health expert in Egypt has warned of the continued spread of the novel coronavirus, adding that a new strand of the virus that attacks the digestive system...

The Egyptian government has announced that street vendors outside schools will be banned as part of extra measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The government is implementing a...

Tunisia’s new Prime Minister, Hichem Mechichi, stressed the need to stop the country’s “economic bleeding” as his government officially assumed its duties on Thursday. Mechichi is the seventh prime...

A United Nations report revealed that Russia has reinforced its logistical support for private military firm the Wagner Group in Libya with some 338 cargo flights from Syria in...

Libya’s internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) on Thursday restored the interior minister to his post after announcing his suspension last week following protests over living conditions, reported...

An Egyptian political detainee died in the notorious Scorpion prison yesterday as a result of medical negligence, his family and human rights advocates said on Facebook. Ahmed Abdelnabi, 63,...

Senegalese officials have removed 3,050 tonnes of ammonium nitrate from Dakar’s port and exported the dangerous substance to Mali over concerns the stockpile could cause a blast similar to the 4...

Egypt’s prosecutor general has ordered that accusations of sexual assault made by three men against a dentist be investigated. TV director Tameem Younis and actor Abbas Abdul-Hassan are among...

The US State Department said on Wednesday that the government is suspending some aid to Ethiopia over the “lack of progress” in the country’s talks with Egypt and Sudan...

The United States Ambassador to Egypt, Jonathan Cohen, has reiterated his country’s support for Egypt in its war against terrorism, describing Egypt as an important partner. Earlier, the US...

The Libyan government yesterday announced the discovery of a new mass grave in the city of Tarhuna, south of the capital Tripoli, which it linked to the militias of...

The official spokesman of Egypt’s Organisation for Justice and Development, Zidan Al-Qinai, denounced the speech of the chairman of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan,...

The Libyan Army announced that militias linked to renegade General Khalifa Haftar launched six Grad rockets at its headquarters west of the northern city of Sirte, in the second...

Turkey is going after its rights and interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, not seeking tension, the country’s defense minister said on Thursday, Anadolu reports. “We are not seeking tension...

The maritime agreement between Turkey and Libya is Ankara’s “red line” in the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. Oktay warned that “no one...

Cairo has postponed its delegation’s planned visit to Gaza to discuss calming the tensions with Israel after Qatar was successful in its manoeuvres, the New Khaleej news website reported....

Egyptian security sources yesterday arrested the prominent businessman, Salah Diab, as part of an investigation over “financial charges”, local media reported. Diab owns a number of companies that were...

Egypt’s external debt rose 4.78 per cent during the third quarter of the last financial year 2019-20, reaching $111.3 billion, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced yesterday. “Egypt’s...