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Tunisia's Ennahda party yesterday called to put an end to the "exceptional measures", announced by President Kais Saied in late July, saying they have damaged Tunisia's gains and reputation...

US and Moroccan armed forces officials yesterday inaugurated a 15-metre (50-foot) Rappel Training Tower at the Royal Navy Dive School in Sidi Kankouch, near Tangier. A statement issued by...

With a four-day Africa tour by Turkey's president having come to a close on Wednesday, Ankara enjoys a striking presence on the continent as a result of 20 years...

When the news circulated that Morocco's leading political group, the Development and Justice Party (PJD), had been trounced in the latest elections held in September, official media mouthpieces in...

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) today, Thursday, adopted a resolution on the situation in Tunisia in which they expressed deep concern about the concentration of powers in the...

Liverpool's record goalscorer Mohamed Salah has had a waxwork of him unveiled at Madame Tussauds in London today. The 29-year-old football star said it was "like looking at my...

On Wednesday, Paris called on Algeria to "respect" French sovereignty, after the Algerian ambassador urged his community in France to "form a lever" to interfere in "French political life."...

The Secretary-General of Tunisia's largest union, Noureddine Taboubi, has criticised President Kais Saied and called on him not to treat the state as a "game". The head of the...

Thousands of Sudanese protest demanding 'the protection of the revolution, the completion of its tasks and the realisation of its demands' in Khartoum

In a square in central Fez, the steady beat of hammers on copper has returned – a welcome signal for the ancient Moroccan city's thousands of artisans that trade...

Algerian coast guards have rescued 701 irregular migrants who were fleeing for Spain and Italy in a week, the country's Ministry of Defence announced yesterday. The ministry said in...

Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah today supported the holding of national elections on 24 December as envisaged in a UN-backed peace plan, Reuters reports. Speaking at the Libya Stabilisation Conference in...

When former United States president, Barack Obama, was awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he was in office less than a year. The Nobel Committee, in its...

The Tunisian Parliament called on President Kais Saied to reconsider his "unconstitutional" decisions, and lift the freeze imposed on legislative institutions. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the parliament's presidency called...

Water-scarce Egypt aims to more than quadruple desalination capacity by granting private companies concessions from its sovereign wealth fund to build 17 plants over the next five years with...

Turkish-German scientist, Ugur Sahin, has been declared "Man of the Year" in the Muslim world in an annual publication by the Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISSC), Anadolu...

The expansion of Al-Qaeda attacks in Mali threaten dozens of Moroccan truck drivers who transport goods to sub-Saharan Africa every day. The terror group has hit a 3,700-kilometre road...

The Egyptian health minister has inaugurated a medical centre in the town of Jinja in Uganda as it moves to solidify relations with the African country. Hala Zayed said...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was today welcomed by his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari with an official ceremony at the Presidential Palace in the capital Abuja. Erdogan was accompanied...

A thief who stole the mobile phone of a Youm7 journalist whilst he was live streaming to the website has had his face broadcast on social media platforms in Egypt

Moroccan authorities will suspend direct flights with Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands over COVID-19 concerns starting tomorrow, Reuters reported flag carrier RAM announcing today. Morocco recently announced that it would impose a...

The first round of the strategic dialogue between Sudan and Britain was launched in the capital, Khartoum, yesterday co-chaired by Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi and Minister...

Spain may buy larger quantities of Algerian gas in order to re-export some to meet the needs of the Moroccan market, local media reports have said, however, such a...

The horizon seems to have become blocked for Khalifa Haftar and his political future is dependent on the developments of the American position on the Libyan crisis and the...

The Tunisian National Guard yesterday thwarted 18 irregular migration operations heading to Italy and rescued 340 migrants. National Guard spokesperson, Hossam El-Din El-Jabali, was quoted by local media as...

On Tuesday, Qatari Foreign Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani received the credentials of Egypt's new ambassador, Amr El-Sherbini, Anadolu News Agency reports. The move came amid an improvement in...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was welcomed by his Togolese counterpart, Faure Gnassingbe, in the capital, Lome, on Tuesday with an official ceremony, Anadolu News Agency reporting. Before the...

The International Monetary Fund has been in contact with Tunisian authorities after a new cabinet was formed last week, and more talks are expected soon on the type of...

The Grand Mufti of Egypt's Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, is to visit senior Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, in Iraq early next month, according to sources. The historic visit...

Morocco is suing L'Humanité for defamation after the French newspaper accused the authorities in the Kingdom of using the Israeli "Pegasus" spyware to monitor individuals and governments, including French...

An Algerian court yesterday annulled a one-year suspended prison sentence against political opponent, Karim Tabbou, who is considered one of the most prominent figures of the popular anti-regime movement...

Libya's oil minister has again suspended the head of state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanalla, over alleged administrative offences, the ministry said today, in a dispute that may...