Speaking at the Arab Summit, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, mistakenly called ballistic missiles, plastic missiles. It would have been more accurate to call the...

On Monday, the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights said that 400,000 children drop out of educational institutions in the country every year. Dropouts occur for several...

A court in Somaliland has sentenced a female poet to three-years in jail after she called for unity with Somalia amid ongoing regional tensions, Garowe Online reported yesterday. Naciima...

An Arab League summit yesterday called for an international probe into the “criminal” use of chemical weapons in Syria and condemned what it saw as Iran’s interference in the...

Thousands attend Winnie Mandela’s memorial service in South Africa

Egypt’s parliament this weekend approved to extend the state of emergency for an additional three months. This is the fourth time that Egyptian authorities have extended the state of emergency...

Head of the Tunisian Ennahda Movement, Rached Ghannouchi has predicted that there would be an intense competition, which he described as “peaceful war”, during the first municipal elections since...

The Tunisian General Labour Union (the largest trade union organization in the country) has blamed the government for the deterioration of the Tunisian economy. Samir Al-Shafi, Assistant Secretary-General of the...

Moroccan newspaper has quoted what it considers as well-informed sources as saying that the Moroccan army has decided to retrieve its squadron of aircrafts from Saudi-led Arab Coalition, which...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi today called for the ending of “the Palestinian division” and for “an immediate” international investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria....

Israel will release about 200 jailed African migrants in the absence of a final deal to deport them and thousands more Eritrean and Sudanese men who entered the country...

Qatar will not be represented by a senior official at an Arab summit taking place in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, in a sign that a nearly year-old dispute between...

Algeria has criticised air strikes carried out by the United States, France and Britain against Syria, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia said on Saturday. US, British and French forces struck...

An Egyptian court upheld on Saturday a life sentence against Mohamed Badie, the leader of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, over 2013 violence, judicial sources said. The court of cassation,...

Eight Egyptian soldiers and 14 militants were killed in fighting in central Sinai on Saturday when gunmen carrying explosive belts and grenades targeted a military checkpoint, the army said....

Egypt is to extend its nationwide state of emergency for three months from April 14, the official gazette said early on Saturday. Egypt first imposed the current state of...

Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar has been treated in a hospital in Paris, a French source close to the matter said on Friday, confirming earlier reports from Libyan officials...

Egypt temporarily opened Rafah crossing point on the borders with the Gaza Strip in both directions for three days.

Jarah al-Hawamdeh, a Palestinian refugee in Jordan who lost one of his legs to cancer, has vowed to reach the summit of Mount Everest in hopes of saving his...

Egypt’s military prosecution yesterday referred the former head of the country’s Central Auditing Organization (HAC), Hisham Geneina, to a military court accusing him of “spreading news that harms the armed...

Five people were killed after a bomb exploded during an afternoon local football match in the south-western Somali town of Barawe yesterday, Garowe Online reported. The improvised explosive device...

The Algerian government has decided to increase the quantities of milk powder provided by the Algerian Inter-Professional Milk Board (ONIL) to public and private dairies to help with shortages...

Tunisia has failed to take steps to abolish its law on the death penalty, Amnesty International said in its latest report. Since the early 1990s, no death sentences have...

On Thursday, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry refused to be held responsible for the failure of the latest round of negotiations over the Renaissance Dam in Khartoum. The Egyptian Foreign...

A United Nations official has stated that around 1.1 million people in Libya are suffering under critical conditions for almost eight years of war and are in need of...

Four Arab states who cut relations with Qatar over its close ties with Iran and Turkey are sticking to an ultimatum they issued the Gulf state last year, Egypt’s MENA...

Ethiopia has blamed Egypt for the failure of recent Khartoum-hosted talks between the water ministers of Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia. Last week, negotiations over Ethiopia’s ambitious Grand Renaissance Dam...

Egyptian prosecutors have referred suspects accused of “selling” children online to the criminal court, the state-run National Council for Childhood and Motherhood said yesterday. According to state TV, the...

Somalia has scrapped a United Arab Emirates (UAE) military training programme that has existed since 2014, Reuters reported yesterday, amid ongoing tensions between the two nations. “Somalia will fully...

"There is no OPT, there is no Palestine, there was never Palestine," says Israeli Ambassador to Ghana

More than 10,000 prisoners have been rehabilitating in Algeria since 2010, according to the Director-General of the Prison and Reintegration Administration Mokhtar Felyoun. Felyoun said the government contributed to...

France will not oppose military intervention by Morocco against the Polisario, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, has reportedly told his Algerian counterpart. According to Moroccan...