Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab terrorists on Sunday set off a large blast at an airport in central Somalia, flattening buildings and killing one person and injuring three, officials confirmed, reports Anadolu...

Turkey's first lady this Monday will introduce her book on her travels in Africa for the first time at the Turkish House in New York, reports Anadolu Agency. Emine...

Amid growing opposition to the measures taken by President Kais Saied, five political parties, on Friday, issued a joint statement calling on the army and judiciary to respect the...

Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated in the capital, Tunis, on Saturday to demand an end to President Kais Saied's "exceptional" measures, Anadolu Agency reported. Several activists, politicians and human rights defenders took...

Algeria's longest reigning president Abdelaziz Bouteflika will be remembered as the man who helped Algeria transition from a brutal decade-long war, and reshaped the country's international standing after years...

The Egyptian National Railways Authority has announced raising the price of train platform tickets by 300 per cent on all lines, Al Khaleej Online reported on Friday. The National...

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the ex-president of Algeria, passed away at the age of 84.The announcement was made by the country's presidency, which gave no further details, Anadolu Agency reported. Having come to...

Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed today accused neighbouring Djibouti of illegally detaining his national security adviser, a criticism which appeared linked to a destabilising row between the president and...

French armed forces have killed the leader of Daesh in the Greater Sahara in what President Emmanuel Macron has hailed as "another major success" in the fight against terror...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday denied the existence of any human rights violations in Egypt, following a recent report by the Human Right Watch condemning the government's "continuing...

Just months ago, Cameroonian migrant Wilfred Christopher had a home and stable job as a pastry chef in Abu Dhabi. Now, the 26-year-old fears for his life after authorities...

An Egyptian engineering delegation arrived in the occupied Gaza Strip yesterday to follow up on the enclave's reconstruction process. An official source told Safa that the Egyptian delegation would...

The famed Algerian resistance fighter Saadi Yacef, who fought for his country's independence from French colonialism, died on 10 September; he was 93. When FLN leader and speaker of...

Russia and Egypt have reached a "principled understanding" on compensation for the families of the victims of a plane crash in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in 2015, the Russian Foreign...

The head of Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate delivered an invitation from President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi last month for Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to visit his country. This was...

The United Nations' political mission in Libya is being blocked by Russia, threatening the country's unity ahead of a presidential election due to be held on 24 December, diplomatic...

Forces loyal to Libya's renegade General Khalifa Haftar said yesterday that they are now facing armed confrontations with their former allies, Chadian rebels, who took refuge in southern Libya...

Tunisia's Ennahda movement said on Thursday that there is no solution to the country's crisis except through a comprehensive national dialogue. It called for the "exceptional measures" taken by...

The mere thought of having a colonial enterprise enjoying red carpet treatment within an anticolonial setting beggars belief. Even more so when that setting is the African Union, because...

Algeria is preparing a new investment law to improve its business climate and attract foreign investors with the aim of boosting the non-energy sector, Prime Minister Ayman Benabderrahmane said...

Egypt and Libya's unity government signed a series of cooperation agreements and several infrastructure contracts yesterday, Reuters reports. Though Libya's political prospects remain uncertain, the deals are the latest sign of...

The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) called on President Kais Saied to expedite forming a mini-government to confront economic, social and health issues, and ensure the continuity of the...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi today expressed his country's willingness and readiness to provide support for holding Libyan general elections on its scheduled time, on December 24. In his...

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed today suspended the prime minister's power to hire and fire officials, accusing him of taking "rush and hasty decisions", Anadolu Agency reports. This came...

The Tunisian presidency on Thursday announced the reopening of border crossings with Libya as of Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. President Kais Saied stressed the necessity of "total compliance with...

The judicial authorities in Egypt yesterday lifted conditional release measures in place against Professor Hazem Hosny since February. The Cairo prosecutor reduced the measures imposed on the professor of...

The next political role of Morocco's Justice and Development Party (PJD) will be in opposition to the incoming government, a senior party official said yesterday. Suleiman Al-Amrani told Alhurra...

Morocco's ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, announced on Wednesday that the Kingdom has agreed to the appointment of Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura as the Secretary-General's envoy...

Algeria's special envoy to the countries of the Maghreb and Western Sahara, Ammar Belani, yesterday denied reports claiming the Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan had discussed the dispute...

Last week marked 22 years since the African Union (AU) replaced the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) which was created in 1963 with only 32 members. The other 22...

Five Tunisian parties on Tuesday expressed their rejection of "calls to suspend the constitution" and "the state of combining power and monopolising decisions". A joint statement made by the...

An Islamic scholar turned freedom fighter, Omar Al-Mukhtar is best known for leading an armed revolution and guerrilla campaign against Italian colonisers for the last two decades of his...