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Moroccan and Algerian officials at the United Nations exchanged criticism regarding the disputed Western Sahara region and the Polisario Front on Monday evening. This came during the United Nations...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday praised Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for supporting Egypt as it struggles to contain the economic crisis resulting from the Russia-Ukraine...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday called on citizens to be "patient" as the country goes through tough economic conditions. "When Egypt's income reaches $1 trillion a year, hold...

Libya's oil output is 100,000-150,000 barrels per day (bpd), a spokesman for the Oil Ministry said on Tuesday, and a fraction of normal levels due to the shutdown of production and export facilities...

Israel and Arab countries that share their worries about Iran should build up their military capabilities under Washington's aegis, the Israeli Defence Minister said on Tuesday, ahead of a...

Britain's first scheduled flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda was set to depart on Tuesday, with the government warning that anyone who avoided it through last-minute legal challenges would...

Asylum seekers sent from filthy, dangerous Libyan detention centres to Rwanda say their new quarters are a huge improvement but they still want to reach Europe – raising questions...

The UN human rights chief has said she appreciates the "positive steps" taken by the Egyptian president "to advance human rights." The quote was published in state-run Egypt Today and has...

Algerian Foreign Minister, Ramtane Lamamra, held talks over the phone with his French counterpart, Catherine Colonna, on Tuesday amid a crisis between the North African country and Spain, Anadolu...

The UN World Food Program (WFP) on Tuesday suspended food assistance to South Sudan, citing insufficient funding as the sole reason, Anadolu News Agency reports. The WFP's decision will...

Tunisia's Ennahda movement insisted yesterday that the former leader of the movement, Imed Hammami, no longer represents it in any matter. "Ennahda does not bear the responsibility for his...

The Egyptian Revolutionary Council has called on the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to "withdraw" from the Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians in Sharm El-Sheikh due to be held tomorrow. Condemning the IPU's "deplorable"...

Member of the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) in Tunisia, Judge Habib Rebai, yesterday announced his resignation from the ISIE in support of his colleagues, the judges striking...

Journalists in Morocco have categorically rejected media normalisation with Israel, describing it as a "crime against the Palestinians, Moroccans and humanity". This came in a joint statement signed by...

Policies implemented by the Egyptian government at the Rafah border crossing to Gaza have "exacerbated" human rights conditions, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. Omar Shakir,...

An appeal court judge has refused to stop a Home Office flight carrying asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda from leaving this evening. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal...

Tunisia's President Kais Saied announced at the beginning of May the launch of a "national dialogue" to help resolve the political deadlock in the North African country which followed...

Egypt's yesterday released 15 prisoners who had been held in pretrial detention Human rights lawyer, Tarek Al-Awadi, said the detainees included "Islamist activist Magdy Korkor and producer Moataz Abdel-Wahab."...

Turkiye's Presidency, on Monday, submitted a motion to Parliament on extending troop deployment in Libya for another 18 months, Anadolu News Agency reports. The motion was submitted in light...

The father of a Moroccan man sentenced to death by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on mercenary charges said his son should be treated as...

Morocco's former Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane has reminded the people of Algeria that Moroccan kings supported them with weapons as they fought for independence from France. The Secretary-General of...

The fund aims to invest in several sectors, including agriculture, fishing and mining

London courts will hear two last-minute legal challenges to block the British government's policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda before the first removal flight scheduled to leave tomorrow, Reuters reports....

Human Rights Watch has written an urgent letter to the Home Secretary urging the government to rescind their plan to expel people seeking asylum in the UK to Rwanda....

Poet Qais Bin Al-Malouh loved his cousin Laila Al-Amriya and was called "Al-Majnoun" because of his intense love for her, especially after his uncle refused to let him marry...

British-Egyptian writer and political activist Alaa Abdelfattah has spent over 70 days on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison demanding that he receives a consular visit. Alaa's sister Mona...

The military judiciary has detained and opened an investigation against a Tunisian journalist after he made statements to an Arab TV channel about the Tunisian army, according to his...

A Saudi Arabia-bound ship carrying around 16,000 sheep has downed off Sudan's Red Sea coast, the Sudanese Exporters' Association said. A Sudanese port official, who spoke on condition of...

Morocco's Royal Basketball Federation said Sunday it signed a cooperation agreement with the Israeli Basketball Association (IBBA), Anadolu reports. In a statement, the Moroccan federation said the deal aims...

UN Special Adviser on Libya Stephanie Williams on Sunday urged the country's rivals to establish a constitutional framework within one week for holding elections in the conflict-ridden nation, Anadolu...

Moroccan authorities have banned a controversial British film about the daughter of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the Moroccan Cinematographic Centre (MCC) said "The Lady of...

An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced a man to death over the murder of a Coptic priest in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria in April at a popular seaside promenade....