Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif yesterday arrived in Algeria on a two-day visit which will see him visit three North African countries. Zarif was received by his Algerian counterpart,...

Niger said on Saturday it had recalled its ambassador to Qatar in solidarity with Arab countries that have cut ties with Doha over allegations it sponsors extremist militants and...

The ongoing blockade of Qatar led by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt has exposed the harshness of Middle Eastern politics. How did the situation...

Senegal announced on Wednesday that it has decided to recall its ambassador from the Gulf state of Qatar for consultations. “We are following with deep concern the current situation...

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani will visit Moscow tomorrow amid a diplomatic row among Gulf states, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported yesterday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry...

Several Mauritanian opposition parties on Thursday called on the government to reverse its decision to cut diplomatic ties with Qatar. In a statement, Mauritania’s National Forum for Democracy and...

Deputy Head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) Dr Ahmed Al-Raissouni condemned the siege on Qatar and called for Muslim scholars and intellectuals to reject it, the Anadolu Agency reported. In a...

The West African country of Mauritania, a member of the Arab League, severed ties with Qatar on Tuesday over allegations it “supports terrorists”, the state news agency reported. The...

The Mauritanian Ministry of Justice described a strike by court clerks as being “removed from all legal avenues” and considered those taking part in it as being “absent without...

Hundreds of Mauritanians marched on Saturday against slavery and to denounce the injustice against them. Despite slavery being abolished in the West African nation in 1981, it is still...

Reporters Without Borders said Egypt was ranked 161 out of 180 in 2017 World Press Freedom Index making it one of the world’s worst countries to be a journalist....

A UN mission yesterday discussed slavery and means to fight it with the Mauritanian government in Nouakchott, the Anadolu Agency reported. The UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Urmila Bhoola, met with the...

Former Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi has called on citizens to resist what he described as a “constitutional coup” being prepared by current President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Ould...

Israel and the US are the greatest threats to the Arab region, its stability and security, a poll by the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies revealed yesterday....

Some 24 per cent, nearly quarter, of the Arab region’s citizens seek to emigrate their home countries in an attempt to improve their economic and financial conditions, the 2016...

Mauritanian lawmakers voted yesterday for constitutional reforms which will abolish the country’s Senate and alter the country’s flag to better represent those who battled for independence from France. Lawmakers...