A prominent Algerian dissident called on Monday for the government in Algiers to engage in a “real political process”, local media have reported. Karim Tabou also called for the...

 Some 138 people have been killed and injured as a result of landmines planted by Libyan renegade General Khalifa Haftar’s forces, the UN revealed yesterday. In a statement by...

It is rare to see a government throw a sustained tantrum against another due to differences over foreign policy, especially without first attempting to solve it through diplomatic means....

The Moroccan parliament yesterday criticised Amnesty International and called on the rights group to apologise and provide evidence of allegations officials spied on journalists in the country using Israeli...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said that his country will start filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’s reservoir, taking advantage of the upcoming rainy season, news agencies reported yesterday....

Magda Saleh, widow of the late engineer Mohammed Al-Zawari, expressed disappointment that her name was not included in a list of foreigners who were granted Tunisian citizenship by a presidential...

No one will be allowed to come near Egypt’s natural resources in the Mediterranean, which lie within its territorial borders, the country’s parliament speaker warned yesterday. “Egypt has full...

Nine Arab countries on Tuesday called for an effective international stance against an Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, reports Anadolu Agency. The foreign ministers...

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Tuesday that a forced shutdown in production since January was expected to result in output dropping to 650,000 barrels per day (bpd)...

Al-Azhar, Egypt’s top Sunni Muslim authority, appealed for victims to speak out and be supported

Negotiations over Ethiopia’s $5 billion Grand Renaissance Dam on the River Nile have reached a critical stage. The project, the construction of which began in 2011, has developed into...

A man from Brooklyn was indicted yesterday after allegedly smuggling hundreds of ancient Egyptian artefacts, some of them almost 4,000 years old, through JFK International Airport earlier this year....

Russia is in contact with all parties to the Libyan conflict as the situation in the country is complicated, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin said yesterday. Moscow engages in...

Libya’s crude oil exports will drop in July to lower levels than those in June, while its state oil firm continues negotiations to end the blockade that has been...

An American student has been released after spending almost 500 days in an Egyptian detention centre. Mohamed Amashah, a 24-year-old Egyptian-American medical student from Jersey City, arrived in Dulles...

Egypt’s parliament has approved amendments that mean military personnel must have the army’s approval to run in the elections. The regime tried to sell the bill as restricting military...

The General Authority for Culture in Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) has condemned the Syrian singer Assala Nasri for showing a poster of Libyan hero Omar Al-Mukhtar next...

Russia has deployed 300 fighters, including eight former members of Daesh, in Libya. The mercenaries, report Syrian sources, came from Deir Ez-Zor in eastern Syria, and are in Libya...

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his French counterpart Emanuel Macron suffer from “strategic blindness”. In a televised speech...

Three members of a family in Libya suffered injuries today when a landmine planted by forces loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar exploded, Anadolu Agency reports. The blast occurred in...

A member of Egypt’s medical union has appeared at the Supreme State Security Prosecutor’s office for investigation after being arrested on 28 June. Dr. Ahmed Safwat worked as an...

The Public Prosecution of the Nouakchott Court has announced the arrest of several suspects alleged to be involved in the embezzlement of $2 million of foreign exchange reserves from...

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said that his country rejects the Egyptian ceasefire initiative in Libya, adding that what Cairo wants is not applicable. Akar’s statements came during a...

Arab states offered the late Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi a large sum of money to exclude Ennahda from the country’s democratic process, an official in the party said yesterday....

The current dispute between two important NATO members, France and Turkey, over their opposing views on Libya could be the beginning of the end for the alliance. If the...

Sudan’s Popular Congress Party (PCP) yesterday accused the country’s transitional government of “forcibly arresting opponent figures”. Since early June, the Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC) was reported to have...

Libyan forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) announced that 190 students from Tripoli Military College, which was bombed by the forces of renegade General Khalifa Haftar early...

Amnesty International on Saturday accused Morocco of launching a “smear campaign and the false claims” against it in an effort to “discredit solid human rights research”, it said in...

Libya’s High Council of State condemned overnight airstrikes on the strategically important al-Watiya airbase, Anadolu reports. In a statement late Sunday, the council said the attack was an effort...

Algeria welcomed home the fighters’ remains on Friday after more than 170 years in France

The president of Algeria said Saturday he would welcome an initiative to end a decades-long cold war with Morocco, Anadolu reports. “If they think an initiative should be taken,...

The British Embassy in Libya’s capital Tripoli on Saturday said reports of foreign powers interfering with the country’s oil facilities are worrying, Anadolu reports. The embassy said in a...