Ethiopia will start filling its $5 billion hydroelectric dam on the Nile River in two weeks, the government said Saturday, Anadolu Agency reports. The announcement came after an online...

A high-profile Egyptian belly-dancer, Sama el-Masry, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 300,000 Egyptian pounds ($18,500) on Saturday for inciting debauchery and immorality as part of...

The Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gedu Andargachew has announced that his country intends to start filling the lake of the Renaissance Dam, despite the failure to reach an...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday sacked a senior judge from his post as deputy head of the State Lawsuits Authority, which represents the interests of the state in...

The filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)’s reservoir will lead to a “prolonged drought in Egypt”, Cairo’s irrigation minister warned yesterday. “Egypt relies on the Nile River...

Five people have been arrested in France over the trafficking of Middle and Near East antiquities, the Art Newspaper has reported. According to a legal source cited in the...

The Supreme Council of Libyan Tribes and Cities announced on Wednesday its “categorical rejection” of recent comments by Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s, considering it a “declaration of war on...

Amnesty yesterday called on the Egyptian authorities to protect a detained journalist from “torture and ill-treatment”. On Wednesday, authorities in Egypt arrested Nora Younis, editor-in-chief of Al-Manassa, from her workplace...

The Ministry of Defence of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) said it will continue in its moves to recapture the eastern city of Sirte from the forces...

Egypt’s national carrier EgyptAir Airlines said on Thursday that it will resume flights to 24 destinations from the first week of July and will add more in the following...

Lebanon has the highest pollution linked death rate in the Middle East, a Greenpeace report published yesterday has revealed. According to the study, entitled “Toxic Air: The Price of Fossil...

Workers at Egypt’s National Iron and Steel Products Company have been asked to choose between forgoing their wages and losing their jobs, Arabi21.com reported on Wednesday. The company is...

A UN official has said that he was disappointed because the UN Security Council is not ready to help ease tensions over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, the New Khaleej news site reported...

Libya has expressed reservations at the eighth item of the Arab League’s resolution. The eighth clause of the League’s decision states “welcoming the Cairo Declaration on Libya, issued on 6/6/2020, which...

The League of Arab States (LAS) finally produced its last resolution on Libya, Resolution 8523, after its council met via video conference. On 19 June, Egypt called for the...

The transgender son of one of Egypt’s most famous actors is being sued for promoting homosexuality among young people after posting on Instagram in support of an LGBT+ activist...

The “last thing that Libya needs right now is more fighting,” the spokesman for the United Nations secretary general told journalists in a press briefing. In response to a...

The hostilities follow failed talks between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over Addis Ababa's plans to fill the reservoir at its new Renaissance Dam with water from the River Nile

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi went to the border with Libya on Saturday to boost his army’s morale before sending them to fight against a foreign enemy. The visit...

Syria yesterday declared its support for both the Libyan National Army led by General Khalifa Haftar and for Egypt’s initiatives with regards Libya, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Walid Al-Muallem,...

Egypt will from Saturday lift a night-time curfew that had been in force since March 25 to curb the spread of the coronavirus, and reopen restaurants, cafes, and places...

Since the first official coronavirus case was announced in Egypt, at least nine journalists have been imprisoned, according to the Freedom Twitter account for political prisoners. The reporters face...

Sanaa Seif was reportedly kidnapped outside the attorney general’s office a day after she was beaten up along with her sister Mona and mother Laila outside Tora Prison where her brother is being held

For the second time in a matter of weeks, the government in Egypt is trying to refer the case of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the River Nile to...

Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) revealed two documents on Monday which allegedly prove Khalifa Haftar’s involvement in financial corruption. An official GNA media centre posted a copy of...

Italian flights to and from Egypt are set to resume on 15 July, according to Egypt’s tourism federation. Chairperson of the federation Ahmed Al-Wasef said that several Egyptian hotels...

Libyans will not accept threats being made against Egypt, the country’s interior minister said on Sunday, but they will also not allow threats to be made against their safety,...

Egypt will be “explicit and clear” about its position if the United Nations Security Council intervention to resolve the dispute arising from Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam is not successful, the North...

Egyptian security forces have arrested the human rights defender Ahmed Amasha and forcibly disappeared him for seven days. In a Facebook post his son Muhammad announced his arrest on...

The Egyptian Medical Syndicate has stated that six more Egyptian doctors have of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths among doctors because of the disease to 91....

Yemen’s Houthi leader, Mohamed Ali Al-Houthi, urged Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi not to launch a military intervention in Libya. “Exhaustion in these battles is useless… and the real...

Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) has found 73.5 per cent of families suffered a reduction in their income due to COVID-19 pandemic, local news agencies...