Africa

The Moroccan delegate to the minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mbarka Buaadh, has welcomed what she described as France's "firm position" on the Western Sahara and Paris' support...

Algerian Ministry of Culture has criticised Algerian director Lyes Salem who announced the screening of his latest movie El-Wahrani (A man from Oran) in Israel's Ashdod festival. "Lyes Salem's...

Saudi Arabia's minister of religious affairs has described the four-fingered Rabaa Al-Adawiyya sign used by opponents of the coup against Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi as a rejection of murder...

A former senior official of the Muslim Brotherhood has described the Egyptian judiciary as "scandalous", Almesryoon.com reported on Saturday. Dr Kamal Al-Helbawy is now a prominent supporter of the...

EU rescue missions have saved more than 5,000 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea since Friday, the bloc's border control agency Frontex reported Sunday. The rescue missions were jointly carried...

Egypt on Saturday freed American-Egyptian activist Mohammed Soltan after he renounced his Egyptian citizenship, Soltan's family and lawyer have said. "It is with pleasure that we confirm that our...

Alaa Al-Aswany, the well-known Egyptian novelist and has said that he is coming under increasing pressure much more than during the Mubarak era, media sources reported on Friday. "Newspapers,...

The head of the Council of Europe has written to Egypt's Grand Mufti asking him not to approve hundreds of death sentences hanging over jailed dissidents – including former...

The United Nations Special Envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, said yesterday that Libya is on the verge of economic collapse as rival factions haggle over a political settlement. Leon,...

The results of a poll conducted at the University of Tunis published on Thursday have revealed that nearly 1,300 Tunisian students are currently involved in jihadist organisations outside Tunisia....

Egypt's former presidential candidate Mohamed El-Baradei has entered into the ongoing controversy over Egypt's judicial decisions, saying that law without justice is nothing but a tool of repression. El-Baradei...

Egypt's democratic youth movement, known as 6 April, has called for a mass strike on 11 June to protest the lack of freedom, deteriorating economic situation and escalating poverty...

The head of Egypt's Al-Azhar university, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, has agreed to meet leader of the French National Front party Marine Le Pen. In a statement released on Wednesday evening,...

Nigerian Foreign Minister Amin Wali apologised on Wednesday for not voting to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory in the UN last year, Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds has reported....

Time is "running out" for Libya to find a political solution before October, otherwise terrorist groups will remain in the country for a long time, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek...

Israeli Air Force chief yesterday played down concerns voiced by some of his colleagues over the possibility of Egypt acquiring sophisticated Russian-made air defences. Russia's TASS news agency in...

EU Commission in Morocco has denied plans that it has applied for African countries on the Mediterranean to host drone airbases to track migrants to European countries, the Anadolu...

The Vice President of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, called on the Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah crossing around the clock, adding that the decision to...

Libya's Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thani escaped an assassination attempt yesterday, a government spokesman said. Hatem Oraibi told AFP that armed gunmen opened fire at a car carrying Al-Thani after...

Algeria has good relations with Arab Gulf states, and there are no differences between it and Saudi Arabia, a senior government official stressed yesterday. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ramtane...

Some 521 tunnels have been blocked between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, including 63 which range from one to 2.8 kilometres from the border, the Egyptian army revealed yesterday....

Hamas has criticised the decision by the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters to refrain from labelling Israel as a "terrorist entity". The judgement contradicts all of the facts and...

The mayor of Rafah, Subhi Abu Radwan, has announced that the Kuwaiti government is giving the municipality $2 million to establish an industrial zone in the city, which is...

Egypt has summoned Pakistan's charge d'affaires in Cairo to express its displeasure with Islamabad's criticism of a recent raft of death sentences handed out by Egyptian courts. In a...

Senior Muslim Brotherhood official and former parliamentarian Mohamed Falahji, 58, died in an Egyptian prison on Monday morning, Quds Press has reported. Falahji is the second top leader of...

Egypt denied media reports claiming it has invited Libya's Muslim Brotherhood to attend a conference of Libyan tribes it's hosting. Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ambassador Badr Abdel Atti said...

Egypt's foreign minister has expressed his hope that all of the relevant Yemeni parties will reach a peaceful political agreement that preserves the stability and territorial integrity of the...

An Egyptian court adjourned the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi on Sunday, wherein he is accused of espionage on behalf of the State of Qatar. The proceedings are...

A diplomatic source has revealed that Algeria has rejected a request from the European Union to host a base for drones to be used to track illegal migrants on...

A report prepared by the World Bank said that unemployment rate in Gaza has reached a record as it is the highest across the world, Quds Press reported on...

Egypt's ousted President, Mohamed Morsi is in good psychological condition and enjoys high morale despite a death sentence handed down against him and over 100 Muslim Brotherhood members, leaders...

Tunisia's Prime Minister, Habib Essid reiterated his government's decision to cut down the salaries of public employees on strike either as part of a union or on individual base....