Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah border crossing today after opening it on “exceptional” grounds since Monday to allow pilgrims and humanitarian cases in and out of the besieged Gaza...

At least 15 boys, aged seven to 15, have contracted rabies after gang-raping a donkey in Morocco. The teens spent a week at the Mechraa Belksiri Hospital in the...

Egyptian media revealed yesterday that three letters were exchanged between the Egyptian foreign minister and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Riyadh’s commitment to the existing arrangements regarding the...

The United States called in air strikes against Al-Shabaab in Somalia, Garowe reported yesterday. Three air strikes were called in according to the US Department of Defence, killing seven...

The first time that Emel Mathlouthi made her voice heard was during the Arab Spring in January 2011, when she sang Dhalem (Tyrant). “You tyrant, kill me, I will...

Five people have been killed and at least 54 were injured when two buses collided on a highway near the city of Suez, Egypt, today. The state news agency...

The latest Algerian government reshuffle has included the dismissal of three ministers accused of “harassing businessmen and investors” and engaging in the “chaos of government initiatives”. The reshuffle comes...

The UK government reportedly paid almost £2 million in aid and defence funding to security projects in Egypt which would go towards policing, the criminal justice system and the...

The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority are scheduled to meet in Cairo on Saturday ahead of the arrival of a US delegation in the region....

Four years ago today 37 Egyptians were gassed to death in a police van outside the Abu Zaabal prison in Cairo. Temperatures outside topped 31 degrees and many had...

A source from the Ministry of Finance revealed Egypt’s plan for early 2018 to return to the international financial markets and borrow $4bn to cover a budget deficit. The...

Qatar’s Foreign Minister, Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, announced on Thursday that his country welcomes Saudi Arabia’s decision to open the land border to Qatari pilgrims but also criticized what...

Security forces in eastern Libya said on Thursday they had arrested the commander of an elite forces unit who is sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for allegedly...

Sudan’s president has promised to protect Egypt’s share of the River Nile waters despite Ethiopia’s construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam scheduled to be completed later this year, the...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi on Thursday issued a decree granting the emir of Kuwait the right to purchase land in Egypt. According to the decree, published in the state’s...

The family of the deceased Sudanese activist Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim have issued a statement commending the hecklers that forced the Sudanese Prime Minister, Hassan Bakri Salah, and other government...