A father who performed FGM on his three daughters after telling them they would receive a coronavirus vaccination has been charged. According to the prosecutor’s statement, the doctor gave...

Hundreds of people in Libya’s capital Tripoli celebrated its complete liberation from militia of warlord Khalifa Haftar, Anadolu reports. The residents gathered late Thursday in the city’s Martyrs Square,...

A government official in the Ethiopian Oromia region accused Egypt of attempting to mobilise oppositionists to create chaos, in light of the Renaissance Dam crisis, stressing that they have...

South Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a statement resolving the controversy over its approval of Cairo’s request to establish a military base near the Ethiopian...

The Justice and Development Front in Algeria called on Thursday for the creation of a consensual commission to study the proposals for the draft amendment to the constitution under...

Russia’s role in the Libyan crisis has been rather slow to develop, because Moscow was deeply busy with Syria’s civil war.  Sometimes, Russia even appeared disinterested in Libya from...

The United States said on Wednesday that it was waiting to build an “empowered” UN mission to Libya, frustrating France and Germany who say that the delay in approving...

The United Nations Security Council issued a resolution on Thursday approving the deployment of an international mission to Sudan for 12 months, to help ensure a successful transitional phase....

Russia flew a batch of advanced MiG-29 fighter jets to Syria, Moscow’s embassy in Damascus said, with Syrian pilots already using the planes to conduct missions within the country’s...

Turkey and Libya plan to advance cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean, including search and drilling activities, to further benefit from natural resources, said the Turkish president in a meeting...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Turkey will increase its support for Libya’s internationally recognised leader Fayez al Serraj and that the conflict there can only be resolved politically...

Egypt is taking pre-emptive measures to prevent desert locust swarms from entering the country, local media reported. The Ministry of Agriculture said that committees affiliated with the ministry’s Central...

Lebanese Tania Saleh, Algerian Souhila Ben Lachhab and Moroccan Mariam Hussein each posted photos of themselves doing ‘blackface’, despite the practice being widely considered a form of racism

Sudan’s Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Yasser Abbas said that the memorandum submitted by his country to the United Nations Security Council does not constitute an escalation of...

Libya’s eastern-based military leader Brigadier General Khalifa Haftar visited Cairo yesterday and met with Egypt’s deputy defence minister hours before the internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) announced that...

The real catastrophe in Egypt is not the Covid-19 pandemic reaching its peak, but the peaking of stupidity and disregard for citizens’ needs. The country is facing the coronavirus...

Egypt has announced plans to relax some of its covid preventative measures as it pushes ahead with its policy to coexist with the virus. Several members from the Committee...

Forces fighting for Libya’s UN-supported government have regained control of the capital Tripoli from militias loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar, an official announced today. The Government of National Accord...

An Egyptian court has upheld the ruling against three young men who were convicted last year of murdering their neighbour. In October 2019 teenager Mahmoud Al-Banna intervened after the three men...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu stressed that the Libyan National Army led by Khalifa Haftar will not be able to resolve the battle against the Ankara-backed Government of National...

Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi considered calls to dissolve parliament as “confusing and unconstitutional” and referred to plans targeting the country’s stability, aiming at sabotaging state institutions and disrupting...

Major General Said Chengriha, senior official in the Algerian People’s National Army, on Wednesday voiced his appreciation of the inclusions in the draft amendment of the constitution under discussion,...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and senior officials of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) held talks in Moscow on Wednesday. Foreign Minister of Libya in the GNA...

Libya’s internationally recognised government recaptured Tripoli’s main airport on Wednesday, all but driving an eastern commander’s forces from the capital ahead of what appeared to be moves towards talks...

Donald Trump’s refusal to address the legitimate grievances of America’s black population has underscored, yet again, why his country does not qualify to be the ‘leader of the free...

Sudanese people are still waiting for accountability a year after a violent crackdown on protesters in Khartoum which left over 120 dead and hundreds injured

Egypt’s prosecution has referred 42 people from Shubra Al-Bahou village in Dakhalia Governorate to criminal trial on charges related to preventing a burial. In April dozens of people gathered...

Observers can’t miss the campaign against the Tunisian revolution by both domestic and foreign parties as they try to derail this beautiful country’s democratic transition. Tunisia is writing its...

Another Egyptian detainee has died from medical negligence, this time in Shibin Public Prison. According to the human rights organisation We Record Reda Abdullah, 70, died yesterday after his...

Sudan yesterday called on the UN Security Council to push the parties involved in the Renaissance Dam issue to avoid taking any unilateral measures that might negatively affect regional...

“Duty and necessity” force Libya’s neighbours to take action and they “cannot be indifferent” while the country remains in unrest, Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi stressed yesterday. In an...

Militias loyal to renegade commander Khalifa Haftar have left 48 corpses behind while fleeing from war zones, the Libyan army said Tuesday. Mohammed Qanunu, a spokesman for the government-led...