The Algerian army has urged voters to stand united with it during the upcoming elections for the benefit of the country. The army said in a statement published by...

The Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) has decided not to hand over Saif Gaddafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) where...

An Egyptian military court yesterday sentenced a Libyan militant to death and 22 others to various prison terms over a 2017 attack on a police patrol in Bahariya Oasis...

Moroccan authorities said Sunday they had arrested two Daesh/ISIS suspects in the capital Rabat, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the Interior Ministry said the two suspects were planning to...

Tunisia’s next government should focus on reforming the faltering economy and restoring hope among frustrated youth, the prime minister designate said on Sunday, Reuters reports. Habib Jemli faces the...

The civilian opposition elites abroad, backed by groups in the community with an Islamic background, complain about the flatness and stagnation of the Egyptian people, and their unwillingness to...

Four people yesterday were killed, and three others were injured as a power transmission tower collapsed in Egypt’s governorate of Giza. Local media quoted security sources as saying that...

Five candidates for Algeria’s presidency launched their campaigns, Sunday, in the run up to the polls’ scheduled date, 12 December. Article 173 of the Algerian Electoral Law stipulates that “the...

Algeria’s five presidential candidates on Sunday launched their campaigns for the December 12 election, but some opposition protesters who say the vote will not be fair have hung sacks...

An arrest warrant for two leading members of the 1989 coup d’etat; a lawsuit against a conservative scholar accused of breaching religious freedom, an accusation the curriculum is being...

A ministerial meeting on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam was held on Friday in Addis Ababa with the participation of Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, World Bank representatives and the United States....

The Tunisian president, Kais Saied, hailed the resilience and steadfastness of the Gaza Strip in a Facebook post on Thursday. While he was the first and only Arab president...

On Friday, the US called on Libyan National Army forces, led by military commander Khalifa Haftar, to halt their offensive in the war-torn north African nation, Anadolu Agency reported....

The United States no longer has an adversarial relationship with the Sudanese government and is working with its counterparts on the possibility of removing it from a list of...

Eastern Libyan authorities forced a civilian flight to land for security checks soon after it had taken off from a city controlled by their rivals in the Tripoli government...

The Arab Spring did not start in Egypt, but it was there where it ended. In 2011, Egyptian citizens took to the streets to protest the rule of Hosni...

Political scientists define war as “intensive policy”; this is something that applies to sport in the Arab world. It reveals deep crises, both between states and in their foreign...

The US has threatened Egypt with sanctions over its decision to buy Russian jets, reports the Wall Street Journal. According to an unnamed official a letter sent by Secretary...

Algeria’s lower house of parliament yesterday voted in favour of the 2020 budget bill and the new gas and oil law. The budget bill was put to a vote...

Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have set up a joint strategic investment platform worth $20 billion, the presidency announced yesterday. Egyptian presidential spokesman Bassam Radi said in a...

Chairman of Ennahda Movement’s Shura Council Abdelkarim Harouni yesterday announced that the movement has chosen its prime ministerial candidate, the Anadolu Agency reported. Harouni told reporters following a council...

The Egyptian newspaper Al-Dustour has published a photo of six Egyptian artists who have spoken out against the Sisi regime wishing them death. “Death snatches the flower of promising...

Mohamed Nabawi, a former spokesman for the Tamarod movement which led to the ousting of President Mohamed Morsi, was arrested on charges of possession of drugs. Nabawi was referred to...

Egypt’s unemployment rate rose to 7.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2019, compared to 7.5 per cent in the previous quarter, state-run Central Agency for Public Mobilisation...

Moroccan rapper Mohamed Mounir also known as ‘Gnawi’ was arrested on 1 November 2019 for insulting the police

Representatives of a wide range of countries have expressed concern over Egypt’s human rights record at the UN Universal Periodic Review. Concern over torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, mass...

Al-Azhar yesterday evening called on the international community to “take a humanitarian stand” against the “terrorist” practices of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people. In a statement, the...

The head of Sudan Umma Party Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi said businessmen have mediated meetings between leaders from the ruling Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), which led the protests...

Detained Egyptian activist Israa Abdelfattah is about to begin a thirst strike to force the prosecutor to open an investigation into complaints that she has been tortured in custody....

The Egyptian authorities have allowed detained Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein to attend his father’s funeral, the news channel reported yesterday. Mahmoud’s father, 74-year-old Hussein Jumaa passed away on...

The Egyptian Cabinet yesterday approved a draft decision issued by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi granting an amnesty to a number of prisoners on the occasion of Police Day and...

Informed sources in Tunisia have revealed the names of six politicians nominated to head the next government, Anadolu Agency has reported. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said...