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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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June 30, 2022
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Ramadan Hassan
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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June 29, 2022
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Dr Umud Shokri
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...
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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...
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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...
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June 29, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
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...
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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,...
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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...
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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.