China said Wednesday that it is opposed to US sanctions on Ethiopia, Anadolu reports. "China always holds that international law and basic norms governing international relations must be adhered...

The former Defence Minister Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who died yesterday, is trending on Twitter in Egypt. Whilst the state-run media praise him as a "loyal son", a "military...

Tunisia has never been against any party involved in the issue of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the Foreign Minister, Othman Jerandi, said yesterday. "Tunisia has been working...

Interim Libyan government, led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, yesterday rejected a recent decision by the country's eastern authority to withdraw confidence from it, claiming that the decision was "illegitimate"....

Algeria's former interim president Abdelkader Bensalah, who ruled the country during an unprecedented political crisis in 2019, died today aged 80, Reuters reported the presidency saying. Bensalah was named interim president after President...

United Nations experts will travel to Cyprus to inspect a plane which is believed to have been used to violate the arms embargo on Libya, Greek Cypriot daily newspaper Philenews reports....

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok yesterday confirmed that the special committee established to dismantle the regime of former President Omar Al-Bashir will speed up its operations. "We will speed...

The Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday refuted the Moroccan ambassador to Geneva's allegations that the Lebanese Hezbollah group supports the Polisario Front. Algeria's Special Envoy in charge of...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday claimed that his country is working to reinforce human rights, citing the launch of the National Strategy for Human Rights earlier this month, Al-Khaleej...

Sudanese protesters yesterday closed the country's vital Port Sudan on the Red Sea for the fifth day, over the Eastern Sudan Track of the Juba Peace Agreement signed in...

Following complaints from prominent rights groups, US State Department spokesman Ned Price announced last Tuesday that the Biden administration is expected to withhold $130 million in military aid to...

Activists from Morocco have launched an online campaign to adopt English instead of French in education, describing the latter as "outdated". This comes days before the start of the...

Tunisian President Kais Saied yesterday confirmed that the exceptional measures he enacted in July will continue and announced that "transitional provisions have been put in place", describing protests against...

Tunisia's President Kais Saied said on Monday that he is going to introduce a new election law and that he has drawn up transitional laws while emergency measures remain...

Libya's eastern-based parliament said today it had withdrawn confidence from the unity government, though it would continue to operate as a caretaker administration, Reuters reports. The vote in the House of...

Sudan's army said in a statement that 21 officers and a number of soldiers were arrested in connection to a coup attempt this morning, and a search is ongoing...

The Saudi and Emirati militaries have arrived in Greece to begin joint exercises with the Greek and Egyptian militaries, in what they are hailing as further cooperation between allied...

The Bennett-Sisi summit would not have received the attention it did in the Israeli media, on the eve of the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday last week, had it not...

Government heads of southern European Union countries yesterday called for "preserving democracy, constitutional procedures and adherence to the law in Tunisia." "The efficiency of the Tunisian government and its...

The Cairo court of appeal yesterday dropped the charges against four human rights and civil society organisations and lifted travel bans imposed on them. The decision was reported by...

The United Arab Emirates' interference in the affairs of Arab countries aimed at "fighting the Muslim Brotherhood," the adviser to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, announced...

A US judge has dropped a lawsuit filed by former political prisoner Mohamed Soltan against Hazem Beblawi and upheld the former Egyptian prime minister's diplomatic immunity. "My TVPA case...

France will host an international conference on Libya in November as the country prepares for elections at the end of December, Reuters reported Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said yesterday. Co-hosted...

A second-year medical student in Egypt has committed suicide by throwing himself from the fourth floor of the university in Six October city. The deceased left a message behind:...

Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the former head of the military council that ruled Egypt temporarily after the 2011 uprising, has died at the age of 85, Egypt's presidency said...

Tunisian authorities yesterday arrested a local woman who sold her four children, who she had outside of wedlock. A judicial spokesman for Monastir and Mahdia provinces in Tunisia, Farid...

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday asked for "forgiveness" from abandoned Algerians who fought for France during Algeria's War of Independence. "In the name of France, I say to the...

No details available about group behind coup plot

An Egyptian man found a dead infant in a bin in the city of El Hawamdeya in Giza governorate, Cairo24 news site reported. "I was heading to my work at 6 am when...

Sudan accepted Turkey's offer to mediate between Khartoum and Ethiopia, Anadolu reported. Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi announced that Sudan accepted the Turkish government's offer to solve the border...

Tunisian parliamentarian Mabrouk Korchid said yesterday that the government's ban on travel was "still in effect," despite a recent presidential announcement lifting the measure. "A friend of mine was...

The World Bank said 6% of the North Africa population could be displaced by climate change, in its damning Groundswell II report. The report laid bare the extent of...