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Tunisian President Kais Saied asserted on Thursday: "Tunisia's judiciary is free, and it must apply the law. The media is run by the hidden system that still rules Tunisia."...

The German Embassy in Tunisia announced on Friday that Ambassador Peter Prügel confirmed during a conversation with Tunisian Minister of Finance Sihem Boughdiri Nemsia the payment of a €100...

Two Tunisian attorneys confirmed on Friday that the authorities have referred former head of the National Bar Association Abderrazak Kilani for military investigation. Attorney Hosni Al-Baji posted on Facebook:...

A Belgian judge has issued an international arrest warrant for the Chairman of Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), Ali Mahmoud Hassan, AFP reported on Friday. The LIA is the sovereign...

Two Turkish humanitarian organisations joined hands to provide free medical treatment and perform surgeries in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Anadolu News Agency reports. Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency...

Many Somali people still remember how, when civil war gripped their own country, an influx of refugees fled to countries like Yemen and Syria, where they stayed several years...

Algeria's President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, announced on Wednesday that the thirty-first Arab League Summit will be postponed. The Summit was due to take place in Algiers this March after Tebboune...

The Tunisian coast guard recovered five migrant bodies and rescued 21 others as their boat capsized off the coast of eastern Sfax city, state media said on Friday, and...

On Thursday, the Grand Mufti of the Republic of Tunisia, Othman Battikh, called on all Tunisian citizens to donate in favour of the State, in order to contribute to...

Morocco believes restoring relations with Spain needs a lot of clarity, government spokesperson, Mustapha Baitas, said in remarks to the media following a cabinet meeting on Thursday. "Regarding Spain...

Diplomatic relations between Somalia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been at their lowest point since 2018, when Somalia accused the small Gulf country of interfering in its...

Britain's leading Charity aimed at tackling food poverty and waste, FareShare has struck an agreement with the Moroccan government to redistribute surplus food from Moroccan businesses trading in the...

Many human rights organisations, political activists and reports point out unambiguously that the people of Egypt have lived under a brutal police state since the 2013 military coup. From...

Flightradar yesterday reported that a US Lockheed C-130H (No. N3867X) aircraft had landed in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi and left an hour later. The website added that the...

Egypt has entered a new wave of the coronavirus after the number of infections had decreased in the previous wave, the Egyptian Health Ministry's spokesperson announced yesterday. Hossam Abdel...

Tunisian President, Kais Saied, issued a decree on Wednesday, to "limit the awards and privileges" granted to members of the Superior Council of the Judiciary. This came in a...

Tunisia's Ennahda Movement condemned, on Wednesday, what it described as a "heinous murder" against a Tunisian citizen who participated in Friday's protests, according to a statement issued by the...

The candidate for the Presidency of Germany's Greens Party, Omid Nouripour, has called on the new government in Berlin to stop arms exports to Egypt and Saudi Arabia over...

Morocco's former Prime Minister, Abdelilah Benkirane, was transferred, on Wednesday, to a military hospital in the capital, Rabat, after contracting the Coronavirus, local media reported. "Benkirane is in good...

The Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the United States, Yousef Al-Otaiba, on Wednesday, called on the US administration and Congress to re-designate Yemen's Houthi rebels as...

A Hamas delegation concluded, on Wednesday, a visit to Algeria where they presented the group's vision to achieve Palestinian reconciliation, the former Hamas Representative in Lebanon, Ali Baraka, said...

Fighting corruption in state institutions and the public sector remains the top priority in Algeria this year as it hopes to improve the domestic situation and prevent the return...

Ramy Shaath, an activist who spent two and a half years imprisoned, has described Egypt under President Abdel Fattah el Sisi as a "banana republic," Monte Carlo International reported...

‘The state has become a whale that swallows everything it finds and is never satisfied’

Israeli delegation arrived on Wednesday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, Israeli media revealed, without giving more details about it. According to Israeli public broadcaster, Kan, the delegation travelled on...

The Moroccan Government has launched an employment programme, especially for persons who have lost their jobs due to the Covid- 19 pandemic, and for those who have difficulty accessing...

The Moroccan League for the Defence of Human Rights, MLDHR, said that it is following with interest the commitments made by the new government in its program and its...

In November 2004, the Kefaya (Enough) movement was formed by Egyptian thinkers, activists and politicians, including George Ishak and Professor Abdel Wahab Al-Messiry. It was a broad political umbrella...

Sudan's Freedom and Change movement said on Tuesday that the initial consultations launched by the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) have received a "severe blow"...

The Arabic hashtag 'Leave Sisi' continues to trend on Twitter with Egyptians using the social networking platform to call on Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to stand down. Social media users...

Egypt's Senate passed the amendmentsto the labour law which would see women receive a total of 4 months paid maternity leave up to 3 times over their careers while rejecting a proposal to give fathers a 1-week paternity leave

Germany's arms sales have hit a record high after they were bumped up by weapons sales to Egypt, according to government figures. In 2021 Germany exported 9.35 billion euros...