Africa

Anti-narcotics police in Ecuador have seized 656.7 kilogrammes of cocaine concealed in a shipping container carrying bananas headed for Tunisia. According to the police, the drugs were dispersed among ten jute...

Sudan is experiencing a hot political winter now that the relationship between the civilian and military members of the Sovereignty Council has reached a dead end. The civilian forces...

Tunisia's trade balance deficit rose 27 per cent in 2021, to reach 16.2 billion dinars ($5.8 billion). The National Institute of Statistics in Tunisia said yesterday that the trade deficit...

Egypt's president has criticised Europe for refusing to take in refugees claiming that his own country has taken in millions of people. "I'm talking about huge numbers," he said...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) yesterday released a $1.9 billion Humanitarian Response Plan to support Sudan in 2022, Anadolu reported. "Today, we also launched the...

The Egyptian Public Prosecution Service accepted yesterday the petition filed by political activist Mamdouh Hamza against the inclusion of his name on the state's list of "terrorists". The move...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has asked his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for help in opening contact channels with Israel, Al Arab Al Jadeed revealed yesterday. According to...

Basketball player Mahmoud Abu Arisha has moved for one year from an Israeli to a Moroccan team, Anadolu news agency reported yesterday. Speaking to the news wire, member of the executive bureau of Morocco's Association Michlifen Ifrane Basketball said 24-year-old...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday claimed that all human rights violations in the country highlighted by national and international rights groups are "lies", Anadolu reported. Al-Sisi's remarks came during a...

The current picture in the Maghreb is grey, turbulent and open to all sorts of readings and expectations. Matters fluctuate between an insistence on maintaining the status quo and...

Developments in Tunisia over the past month have deepened our already serious concerns about the deteriorating human rights situation there, the spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Liz Throssell,...

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, on Tuesday, discussed with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the Palestinian political developments as well as bilateral relations, Anadolu News Agency reports. Hussein Al-Sheikh,...

The first high-level detainee at the controversial US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been cleared for transfer with security guarantees, according to a recently published report and...

The Somali Ministry of Humanitarian and Disaster Management said, Tuesday, it sent the first shipments of aid to the drought-stricken regions of Hiiraan and Bakool, Anadolu News Agency reports....

Tunisia's Ennahda movement pledged to prosecute media outlets that publish and promote what it described as fake news aimed at defaming its leaders. A statement published by the movement...

The arrival of the political activist, the Egyptian of Palestinian origin, Ramy Shaath, to France, after he was deported from the Egyptian prisons, stripped of the nationality of the...

The Ambassador of the European Union to Tunisia, Marcus Cornaro, met the head of Tunisia's General Labour Union (UGTT), Noureddine Taboubi, yesterday to discuss the country's political developments. During...

Informed sources have told Arabi21 that dismissals of staff at Tunisia's Ministry of the Interior by Minister Taoufik Charfeddine is intended to "purge it of Ennahda-affiliated security leaders". Charfeddine's...

All Tunisia's political parties have been banned from entering state television buildings and taking part in talk shows, the head of the country's journalists' syndicate said today, describing the ruling...

The Tunisians for the State initiative yesterday announced that its members have started a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with the country's judicial authority and in defence of its...

On the afternoon of 30 December, security forces banged on the windows of Khartoum Teaching Hospital then fired tear gas into an emergency room packed with protesters injured in...

A preliminary court hearing for the reopening of the Giulio Regeni trial was held in Rome yesterday. Regeni was an Italian postgraduate student at Cambridge University conducting research in...

One of the most famous Egyptian human rights organisations has said it will suspend its operations and activities after 18 years citing the complete absence of the rule of...

Sudan's Sovereignty Council has welcomed the UN initiative to facilitate dialogue among all of the Sudanese parties to resolve the country's political crisis, Anadolu has reported. The announcement was...

The Saudi Export and Import Bank and the Tunisian Company of the Refining Industries (STIR) yesterday signed a $200 million agreement to support Tunisian imports of Saudi oil derivatives,...

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, on Monday, called for dialogue to resolve world crises and achieve peace, Anadolu News Agency reports. Sisi made the call as he opened a...

Egypt will be faced with disaster once the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is fully operational, the Human Development Report in Egypt for 2021 has said. The publication, issued...

Human rights organisations and activists yesterday welcomed Egypt's decision to release 15 female detainees after they spent two years in pretrial detention. The Belady – An Island for Humanity...

Libya's Chief of General Staff Muhammad Al-Haddad met on Saturday with acting general commander of the eastern-based Libyan National Army, Abdel Razek Al-Nadori, in the northern coastal city of...

Hundreds of members of Egypt's Maspero radio and television union organised a demonstration yesterday demanding their outstanding wages be paid immediately and that the head of the National Media...

Families of Egyptian prisoners at Abu Zaabal Prison have called for saving their sons from a "slow death" as a result of the treatment they are being subjected to...

The death penalty has become rampant in Egypt, reports Madr Masr, with executions in 2020 tripling to over 130. In just one month, October of that year, 53 people were...