Africa

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund will visit Tunisia on Monday to start negotiations over a loan programme, a Central Bank official told Reuters on Friday. This follows the...

Salah Eddine Ahmad Mousa embarked on a long, dangerous odyssey to Europe after fleeing war in Darfur in 2018, eventually identifying Morocco's land border with a Spanish enclave as...

The Head of the Tunisian Bar Association and one of the members of the authority entrusted to draft the new Constitution received great criticism after he warned Tunisians of...

The Tunisian judiciary charged the head of the Ennahda movement Rached Ghannouchi, along with 32 other figures, with terrorism. Lawyer Iman Gazara said: "On Monday, 33 people were officially charged in this case [the assassination...

Riad Al-Shuaibi, the adviser to the leader of the Ennahda movement and member of the National Salvation Front, yesterday denied reports of the existence of "contacts" between the leader...

Nationwide demonstrations in Sudan continued for the second consecutive day on Friday, with protesters staging sit-ins across the country against the military leadership that seized power eight months ago,...

Spain yesterday accused Algeria of blocking almost all bilateral trade exchanges, with the exception of its gas exports, following a major diplomatic spat between the two countries over the...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein said yesterday that his country is hosting "mediation talks" between Egypt, Jordan and Iran, Anadolu news agency reported. The top diplomat made the revelation...

The UAE's AD Ports Group today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire a 70 per cent equity stake in an Egyptian container shipping company, WAM reported. The total...

Officials from the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are currently negotiating on a deal regarding the ownership of islands in the Red Sea, in a move which...

Four protesters were killed in protests, Thursday, demanding the reversal of a military take-over in Sudan and a return to civilian rule, according to a local medical group, Anadolu...

20 bodies have been recovered by Libyan rescue services in the desert near the border with Chad, Reuters reports. According to the report, the deceased were believed to have been...

Iraq is hosting mediation talks between Egypt, Jordan and Iran, Iraqi Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, said on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. The top diplomat made the revelation during...

Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian authorities to abolish "unfair" sentences issued on Tuesday against 163 people, including ten people who were handed the death penalty, saying the...

At Damo Farm in Al-Fayoum Governorate to the south of Cairo, calves weigh 550 kilograms each, and yet just six months ago they entered the farm weighing between 150...

Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, yesterday called on Sudan and Ethiopia to engage in dialogue, exercise restraint and refrain from military escalation in the Al-Fashqa...

Egypt and the UAE have agreed to cooperate on protecting a bird that is threatened with extinction in the North African country. The move to protect the houbara bustard...

Ethiopia seeks peace with Sudan, and our "two brotherly countries," Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, announced yesterday, warning of parties who want the two countries to lead the countries to...

An elected national government Sudan will not be achieved by calls for protests and sabotage, the Sudanese chief of staff, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, said yesterday. The de facto head...

Tunisia's Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) announced that 24 political parties will participate in the campaign for the constitutional referendum, scheduled to be held on 25 July. President...

This 5 July marks 60 years since Algeria got its independence from France, after an occupation that lasted over 13 decades, from 1830 until 1962, only to end with...

131 stranded Nigerians from Libya were received by the Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, local Libyan media reports. The returnees...

President Kais Saied looks on course to tighten his grip on Tunisia through a constitutional referendum in July, but it could prove to be a poisoned chalice as the...

Owners of the Nile's famous houseboats in the heart of Egypt's capital are having their homes demolished and towed away as authorities impound what they say are unlicensed dwellings,...

Spain's top prosecutor will open an investigation into the deaths of migrants trying to cross the border from Morocco to Spain, Anadolu News Agency reports. Moroccan officials say 23...

Lebanon has been facing an energy crisis for a number of years. The decline in foreign exchange reserves has made it difficult to pay overseas energy suppliers, leaving the...

The UAE has rejected a proposal submitted by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to appoint Algeria's former Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum as the UN envoy to Libya. The rejection was...

Sudan said, Wednesday, that it exercises self-restraint amid tension with Ethiopia over the killing of seven Sudanese soldiers, Reuters reports. "The government's duty is to defend its territory and...

Fifty-five years ago this month, Israel declared war on the United States of America. Unofficially and not in so many words, of course, but what else can it be...

MEP Hannah Neumann has called on the Egyptian government to release detained British-Egyptian citizen Alaa Abdelfattah and allow him to join his family in the UK. 🇪🇬 National Dialogue,...

About 70 irregular immigrants participated in a protest on Tuesday in front of the headquarters of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Moroccan capital Rabat, Anadolu...

The prosecution said Adel had beaten and stabbed Naira Ashraf multiple times in broad daylight last week in front of shocked onlookers after she rejected his marriage proposals.