Egypt will host the 6th meeting of the Egyptian-Sudanese Joint Military Commission from 14-18 July chaired by the Chiefs of Staff of both countries. Egypt’s Armed Forces spokesman, Colonel...

The Tunisian minister of youth and sports has been criticized for sparking confusion between her country’s flag and the Turkish flag, which prompted a number of activists to demand...

Paramilitary forces backed by Sudan’s ruling military council fired at protesters in the southeastern state of Sennar on Sunday, witnesses said, and one man died of a shot to...

The Supreme State Security Prosecution in Egypt has decided to imprison an American woman of Egyptian origins, Reem Mohammad Al-Dessouki, for 15 days on charges of joining a banned...

The Moroccan navy rescued 161 migrants in the Mediterranean, Friday, the Moroccan official news agency, MAP reported a military source as saying. According to the source, the migrants; mostly...

Troops loyal to Retired General Khalifa Haftar are preparing to launch a decisive attack on Tripoli to seize Tripoli from the forces of the internationally recognised Government of National...

The African Union (AU) is postponing talks between Sudan’s ruling military council and the Forces of Freedom and Change (FDFC), concerning the so-called “power-sharing agreement,” local media reported yesterday....

Egypt opened to visitors on Saturday the “Bent” Pyramid built for pharaoh Sneferu, a 101-metre structure just south of Cairo that marks a key step in the evolution of...

Thousands of Sudanese demonstrators took to the streets in cities across the country on Saturday, witnesses said to Reuters, to mark 40 days since security forces stormed a protest...

Update at 15.30 BST: The number of bodies recovered by Tunisia after a ship packed with migrants sank off its coast last week has risen to 82. More bodies...

Algerians take their demands to the street for the 21st Friday in a row

An Egyptian minister has claimed that Egypt is to establish a “Ministry of Happiness” in light of the country’s soaring prices of basic commodities and the continued repression and...

A specialist Tunisian court has delayed a corruption hearing for potential presidential candidate Nabeel Al-Qarawi, his defence team announced yesterday. Reported by Anadolu, the defence team said that the...

Water supplies to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, have been halted in the wake of an armed attack on the main power plant in southern Tripoli, the management of the...

At least five people were reportedly killed after a hotel in southern Kismayu city of Somalia was struck with bombing and gunfire, security sources told Anadolu Agency on Friday. According...

More migrants have been moved to a detention centre in Libya’s capital where an air strike killed more than 50 last week, despite a risk it could be hit...

A man sought unsuccessfully to set himself on fire on Friday as tens of thousands of Algerians rallied to push for reforms and the departure of the ruling elite,...

The total arrears that Egypt owed to foreign oil companies dropped to $900 million at the end of June, down from $1.2 billion a year earlier, the country’s Minister of...

After months of precarious and confusing on-off dialogue between Sudan’s Transitional Military Council and the Freedom and Change movement, a deal has finally been struck. For us here in...

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Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS) has launched a portal providing information it says promotes a correct understanding of human rights. The SIS has said it will use the portal...

Egyptian Parliament yesterday renewed the state of emergency for an additional three months. According to the Egyptian news agency, “the House of Representatives approved, in its plenary session on...

A delegation from the Egyptian General Intelligence Service yesterday met with a delegation of Fatah leaders, led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in the occupied West bank city of...

Egyptian authorities have arrested the founder of the pro-Mubarak Facebook page “Asef ya Raees” (Sorry Mr President) on charges of spreading fake news and misusing social media. Last year...

Algerians celebrate AFCON win

German MP Thomas Hitschler criticised his government for continuing to allow arms exports to countries participating in the war in Yemen. Speaking to the German Press Agency (DPA) yesterday,...

Egypt has rejected a request by Hamas to allow the head of its political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, to travel to a number of countries including Iran, Turkey, Qatar and...

Algerian lawyers have reiterated their calls for judicial independence and respect for public demands during a march held on Thursday in the capital. The protest culminated with a rally...

Sudan’s military rulers said on Thursday that several officers had attempted a coup in an effort to undermine an agreement between the military and the opposition to share power...

Seven days after Haftar’s bombing of the migrant detention centre in Tajoura, killing 53 people, several migrants exited the facility and began a protest against the delay in their...

At least three people were killed when three blasts hit a military funeral ceremony in Benghazi, eastern Libya, according to local media, Anadolu Agency reported. The Libyan private channel 218 News...