Libya confirmed its first death from the novel coronavirus on Thursday, Anadolu reports. An 85-year old woman who tested positive died from COVID-19, the Libyan National Center for Disease Control said...

Tunisian social media sites, quoting Libyan websites, circulated a video of officers belonging to retired Major General Khalifa Haftar’s militias threatening Tunisia and its people. Haftar’s followers, who seem...

Why is there no MENA category on the 2020 US Census?

Doctors in Egypt have said that President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s proposed 75 per cent medical allowance raise is not enough given the gravity of what they are facing as...

Thirty-nine violations against media freedoms were documented in Egypt in March, the Arab Observatory for Media Freedom reported yesterday. The majority of the cases, the organisation said, related to...

A former Prime Minister of Somalia has died after contracting coronavirus Covid-19 in London, his family said on Wednesday. The son of Nour Hassan Hussein Nour Adde said that...

Acting Sudanese Ambassador to Washington Amira Agaraib asked the US to remove Khartoum from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, Anadolu reported. This came during a meeting between Sudanese official and the...

This Saturday marks a year since Libya’s Khalifa Haftar ordered his self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) to march on Tripoli to expel the Government of National Accord (GNA). On...

Lebanon’s labour ministry announced yesterday that it will investigate the death of a Ghanaian migrant domestic worker after an Al Jazeera report revealed how she feared for her life because of alleged abuse...

Egypt’s response to COVID-19 was delayed and has failed to enforce social distancing measures, according to the independent website Mada Masr. Health minister Hala Zayed formed an operations room to centralise...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the start of the filling of the Renaissance Dam by next autumn, although no agreement has yet been reached with Egypt after Ethiopia’s...

On Wednesday an Algerian court sentenced the former director-general of the Algerian police, Major General Abdelghani Hamel, to 15 years in prison on charges of corruption and illicit enrichment, along...

A report issued by Amnesty International has revealed that US raids in Somalia have led to the deaths of two civilians and the injuries of three others in February....

According to Libyan news sources, a Turkish warship has fired missiles in the south of the city of Al-Ajaylat, west of the Libyan capital of Tripoli. A Libyan news...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Wednesday pardoned 5,037 prisoners, Anadolu reports. The Presidency said that those convicted of terrorism, treason, espionage, murder, asset killing, poisoning, drugs, misdemeanor, rape, and...

Tunisia has deployed robots to tell people to stay indoors during lockdown 

Militias loyal to General Khalifa Hafter in Libya have suffered heavy losses in the ongoing battle for the capital, Tripoli. At least 53 fighters were killed last Friday in...

In February, the chief of the Mossad, Israel’s global death squad, visited Doha, the capital of Qatar; Yossi Cohen was accompanied by Major General Herzi Halevi, the head of...

Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed said on Monday that she expects the spread of the coronavirus worldwide to be contained within three weeks, which will be reflected on the...

Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is living alone in complete isolation in his medically equipped home in Zeralda in Algiers, a year after he abdicated power under the pressure...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Tuesday urged citizens to be “disciplined” to help overcome the coronavirus outbreak even as the number of cases and deaths rose. Tebboune said on...

Egypt’s private airlines companies appealed on Tuesday to the civil aviation minister to intervene to stop the losses of the companies amid the coronavirus crisis. “The chairmen of the...

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied on Tuesday ordered the release of 1,420 prisoners in an amnesty to combat the spread of the coronavirus in prisons, a presidency statement said. Tunisia...

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has threatened to commit suicide if measures to combat the spread of coronavirus are not rescinded after 2 weeks

Tunisian Foreign Minister Noureddine Erray has discussed with a UN official mobilising financial support for Palestinian refugees, Quds Press reported. In a phone call with Christian Saunders, the Acting Commissioner-General of the...

The Ministry of Justice of the internationally-recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) has announced the release of 466 prisoners in the capital of Tripoli, as part of the...

Alaa Mubarak, son of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, attacked the British newspaper The Guardian on Twitter, stating: “The Guardian is no less dangerous than the coronavirus regarding its...

Yesterday the Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok called for a resumption of trilateral talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) between Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia. In a phone...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has told the relevant authorities to boost strategic reserves of staple goods, a presidency spokesman said on Monday, as global concerns about food security...

Tunisia is the Middle East’s greatest success story, according to the findings of the V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2019. One of the world’s most regarded annual reports on democracy...

In a country where only 25% of women work the tamers are not only battling felines

Featuring on Tunisia’s 10 dinar bill is the late physician and gynaecologist Tawhida Ben Sheikh who was the country’s first female doctor