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The Egyptian authorities' systematic refusal to provide or renew identity documents for dissidents, journalists and human rights activists aims to pressure them to return to "near-certain persecution", Human Rights...

US Special Envoy for Libya, Richard Norland, has called on Libya's rivals to respond to an initiative floated by UN envoy Abdoulaye Bathily to break political stalemate in the...

Iran has signed an agreement to build 50 passenger ships for the Ivory Coast, in its latest deal struck with a West African nation. The Iran Shipbuilding and Offshore...

Tunisia's Ennahda Movement on Friday condemned the detention of its senior members in the governorate of Béja in the northwest of the country, Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement...

About 500 people on a large boat in the vicinity of the Italian Search and Rescue (SAR) zone have called for urgent help, the Watch the Med Alarm Phone...

The Tunisian judiciary has ordered the imprisonment of former Environment Minister Riadh Mouakher pending investigations into a case of financial and administrative corruption. Mosaique FM radio station announced on...

Tunisian politicians arrested in the "conspiracy against state security" case announced they had entered a hunger strike in response to the "poor conditions of detention." Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, a...

An Egyptian journalist sparked controversy after he called on citizens to eat horse and donkey meat in light of the high prices of meat and poultry in the country....

The New Development Bank, the multilateral bank set up by the BRICS states, said on Friday it had agreed to elect a new Brazilian Head at the request of...

The head of Sudan's Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has affirmed his  country's keenness to develop relations with Syria and to continue providing humanitarian aid after the earthquakes that hit it...

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, yesterday warned his citizens against "becoming a cause for the destruction of your country once again," referring to the country's security situation during the...

A new leaked letter from Egypt's Badr 3 Prison for Reform and Rehabilitation revealed shocking details of the reasons for attempting to commit suicide by political prisoners inside the...

Greece has sentenced a fisherman to 280 years in prison for steering a migrant boat in rough waters, finding him guilty on charges of human trafficking. The 45-year-old Egyptian...

Egypt, one of the world's largest wheat importers, has given notice it will withdraw at the end of June from a decades-old UN grains treaty, causing consternation among some...

Two Palestinians were killed and ten were among those rescued after a boat sank off the coast of Greece, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority announced...

Tunisian President Kais Saied said late on Wednesday that he will dissolve municipal councils, months before they are due to be elected, further dismantling the layers of government developed...

The new UK Bill against illegal migrants violates the international treaty for refugees and, therefore,, is a violation of international law, said an official of the UN's Refugee Agency,...

Thirty-eight countries at the UN Human Rights Council have demanded justice following the huge explosion in Beirut port on 4 August 2020. In a joint statement delivered by Australia...

The Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has renewed his call for Arab nations to support the agency. Philippe Lazzarini concluded an official...

Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has been slammed for allegedly "defending the Zionist entity" during meetings with African and European officials. The Justice and Development Party (PJD) denounced Bourita's...

A Tunisian judge has jailed the country's former Minister of Agriculture, Mohamed Ben Salem, on charges of "crossing the borders without permission, possession of foreign currency and illicit enrichment."...

Egypt is counting on Arab nations to pressure Ethiopia to halt its "unilateral practices" over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said yesterday. "The...

US Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin, travelled to Egypt on Wednesday to tell Cairo it wanted to deepen security and other ties but was concerned about human rights in the...

South Africa's parliament voted yesterday to downgrade the country's embassy in Israel due to the ongoing Israeli occupation and abuses of international human rights law in occupied Palestine. The...

The military head of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has dismissed the governors of three states in the south and east of the country and appointed their...

Thirteen people from the terrorist group Al-Shabaab and Daesh were executed by firing squad in Somalia's northeastern semiautonomous state of Puntland today. The executions were ordered by a military...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today met with Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in the capital Ankara for talks. Erdogan and Embalo held a closed-door meeting at the presidential...

The Egyptian government should overturn the harsh prison sentences imposed on 5 March following a mass trial of 29 people, says Human Rights Watch. The activists sentenced belong to...

Amnesty International called on the Tunisian authorities yesterday to stop using its "legal arsenal" against activists who "exercise their basic human rights, specifically their right to express their opinions...

A former advisor in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sparked widespread controversy on Twitter after he spoke about the return of the Arab Spring to...

Egyptian Senate member, Bahaa Eddin Abu Shaqqa, called for a legal system to govern the work of Egyptian expatriates including collecting fees from them as a contribution to the state....

The United States' Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin today arrived in Iraq on an unannounced visit to discuss continued defence cooperation and to reaffirm Washington's partnership with Baghdad. After beginning...