The Israeli government said on Tuesday it was abandoning a plan to forcibly deport African migrants who entered the country illegally. The government had been working for months on an...

Emergency food aid for around a million Palestinians in Gaza may run out from June if the UN agency for Palestinian refugees cannot raise another $200 million following a...

Somali forces clashed with residual troops from the United Arab Emirates at a military training centre in Mogadishu yesterday, Garowe Online has reported. The fighting erupted after units of...

A lightning strike has killed a newlywed couple in Ari-addays village, some 30 kilometres south of Abudwaq town of Galgaduud, Halbeeg reported today. “The two were at home when...

An individual of Liberian nationality and Lebanese origin who was living illegally in Algeria has been sentenced to death by the criminal court of Ghardaia, reports ObservAlgerie. Six other...

Without warning, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised the whole world with his decision to hold early presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June, sixteen months before they were...

One of the facts about Israel that is often disputed is its status as an apartheid state. There are, obviously, some differences between the Israeli regime occupying Palestine and...

Human Rights Watch has expressed concern over the risk of a looming humanitarian crisis in North Sinai as a result of the Egyptian army’s military operation against terrorist elements...

France, Algeria and Mali have a agreement that will offer immunity militates in the Sahel region of northern Africa, in return for disarmament, Middle East Eye (MEE) reports. Larbi Khelifa –...

On Monday, an Algerian official said that his country has allocated $20 million to manage immigration, in particular in response to recent pressure on its southern borders. In an...

“We are open to cooperation with all political parties to end the state of division which has negatively impacted the institutions of the state,” said the head of the...

Two military men were killed in a military plane crash on Monday evening in an area adjacent to the air base in Tunisia’s Sfax state, Tunisia’s state TAP news...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah was named Player of the Year by England’s Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) yesterday, becoming the first Egyptian to receive the award. Salah was rewarded for his performances which...

The chairman of BDS South Africa’s board will receive the Order of Luthuli (Silver) from President Cyril Ramaphosa for “his brilliant contribution to academic research and to the fight...

Ousted Egypt President Mohamed Morsi will die in prison if violations against him continue, a Swiss based human rights group has warned in a new report. Morsi has been...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir yesterday discussed with African Union Peace and Security Commissioner, Ismail Sharqi, the United Nations Security Council decision to reduce United Nations African Union Mission in...

The governing commission of the Tunisian General Labour Union will hold a meeting on Monday to support the secondary education sector. While well-informed Tunisian labour union sources have ruled...

On Sunday, Cairo denounced UNESCO’s intention to grant Mahmoud Abou Zeid, a photojournalist and prisoner in Egypt known as Shawkan, the Freedom of Press Prize, a denunciation that the...

Morocco’s Prime Minister Saadeddine Othmani announced yesterday in Rabat the launch of an internal dialogue of the Justice and Development Party which is intended to overcome differences between its...

Libya is considering whether to intervene in a $450 million deal that French major Total announced last month to buy Marathon Oil’s stake in the country’s Waha concessions, several...

A Libyan crude pipeline owned by the al-Waha oil company, feeding the port of Es Sider, was set on fire on Saturday causing the loss of between 70,000 barrels...

French President Emmanuel Macron called Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday to discuss the Syrian crisis, Sisi’s office said. Macron addressed the military strike that France, the United...

Tunisia has reopened its consulate in the Libyan capital, the Libya foreign ministry said on Saturday, the latest mission to return to Tripoli. Most embassies left Tripoli in 2014...

The Algerian Ministry of Defence announced on Friday that one of the leaders of a terrorist group active in the African Sahel has surrendered to the military authorities in...

“FIFA’s Inspection Committee has been impressed with the infrastructure of his country and the planned projects in order to be able to host the World Cup,” said Moulay Hafid...

The closure of Tunisian media outlets and the expulsion of journalists working for them, most recently the private newspaper Assarih, caused a great deal of anger among Tunisian media...

Somalia’s prime minister owns shares in a controversial port currently at the centre of a crisis with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Garowe Online reported today. An investigation conducted...

When Donald Trump announced that he would be withdrawing from Syria and leaving it to others to take care of its affairs, the common belief was that by others...

Egypt has failed to hold a joint meeting between the Hamas and Palestinian Authority (PA) delegations in Cairo. Fatah leader and member of the PA Ayman Al-Raqab told ERM News yesterday...

Ethiopia and Sudan have ignored an Egyptian invitation for a meeting this week in Cairo to resume discussions on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Last week, the Egyptian Foreign Minister,...

The sacking of Sudan’s Foreign Minister, Professor Ibrahim Ghandour, does not appear to be a surprise for many within the Sudanese diplomatic corps, unlike the rest of the country,...

Morocco and Turkey have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the exchange of judicial information on countering organised crime, terrorism and drug trafficking. The Moroccan prosecutor’s office said...