The leaders of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan agreed yesterday on the need to support technical talks on Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam. According to a statement by the Egyptian presidency, this...

Egypt’s Prosecutor-General has referred two defendants to criminal trial on charges of embezzling 19 million Egyptian pounds ($1.08 million) from the state-owned Egyptian Electricity Holding Company. The investigation has...

The Sudanese security services have released 11 journalists who were arrested while covering the country’s anti-government protests. The release came days after Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir pledged to release...

Human rights researcher at the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms, Ahmed Attar, has revealed that the government has executed three members of the opposition on the charge of...

Egypt’s annual inflation rate has reached 12.2 per cent in January, with an increase of 0.8 per cent compared to 11.1 per cent in December 2018. These figures were...

Sudanese security forces used tear gas on Sunday to break up a crowd of hundreds of people, mostly young women, demonstrating against the detention of women arrested at previous...

The Arab Parliament’s speaker, Mishaal Al-Salami, yesterday renewed its calls to the United States, demanding the removal of Sudan from the American terror list. Speaking at a session held...

The chairman of the African Union Commission on Sunday called for an international conference on Libya to chart the way forward for the troubled country. In spite of African...

Eastern Libyan forces loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar carried out four air strikes near the El Feel oilfield as a warning to a rival commander, a field engineer said...

Algeria’s energy earnings rose 15.27 percent in 2018 from the previous year due to higher global oil prices, the government said on Saturday. Stronger revenues helped to reduce the...

A Tunisian court jailed seven people for life on Saturday for their involvement in two deadly militant attacks in 2015, one on a museum in Tunis and the other...

Algeria’s ruling party FLN has picked President Abdelaziz Bouteflika as its candidate for the April 18 presidential election, party leader Moad Bouchareb said on Saturday, reports Reuters. Bouteflika, 81,...

Tunisia has been ranked top of the freedom index in the Arab world in 2018. Tunisia – which ignited the Arab Spring in 2011 – was described by US...

Libyan forces loyal to Commander Khalifa Haftar have imposed a no-fly zone in the south of Libya, which was seized a couple of days ago. A statement posted on...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday condemned the Egyptian authorities’ execution of three coup opponents, stating that they were tortured into confessing. The three men – two of whom were...

Morocco has recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia for consultations, indicating apparent cracks in relations between the traditional Sunni Muslim allies over Yemen, Qatar and Western Sahara, Moroccan media said...

Sudanese authorities will release all detained journalists “in the coming few hours”, according to a Sudanese official on Saturday. “All journalists held during recent incidents will be released in...

Former foreign minister and presidential candidate Amr Moussa has called for national dialogue on proposed amendments to Egypt’s constitution. “I call for a wide national dialogue on the amendments,”...

Twenty-four-year old Ayatollah Ashraf was arrested from her home in the Qalyubiyah governorate of Egyptian capital Cairo on 3 October 2018. Egyptian security forces broke into the family’s home...

A Cairo criminal court ordered the re-trial for Habib Al-Adly, who was interior minister prior to the 2011 uprising that ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, and other defendants in a...

Morocco has recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia and withdrawn its military from the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, government officials confirmed last night. Speaking to pro-establishment news website Le360,...

69 out of 120 councils may not hold elections in March 2019

Fatah is reported to have rejected official invitations extended by Egypt and Russia to host Palestinian reconciliation meetings, Resala.net has reported. According to informed sources, Egypt has proposed a...

Egypt yesterday denied reports that the government will lift bread subsidies in response to International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditions for loans which Cairo has obtained. The Ministry of Supply and...

The Sahrawi population in Tindouf camps, Algeria, have risen together against the Algerian government to protest the disappearance of a Sahrawi intellectual, Ahmed El Khalil, since his 2009 abduction...

Responding to the news that a court in the city of Mascara has sentenced activist, Hadj Ghermoul, to six months in prison and a fine for “offending public institutions”...

Canada is willing to receive about 750 victims of slavery in Libya over the coming two years, including the 150 who have already been granted asylum in the country,...

The government of Tunisia has settled on a deal with the influential UGTT union to raise the wages of 670,000 public employees, Reuters reported today. The deal comes following...

Moroccan authorities on Tuesday stormed and shut down three headquarters belonging to the Justice and Spirituality Group, the largest Islamic group in the country, in several cities. A member...

For the last eight years, my home town of Bani Walid, 180 kilometres southwest of Tripoli, has become one of the favourite route for people traffickers and illegal migrants...

Egypt is reported to have led covert efforts to support Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in the upcoming presidential elections in Libya slated...

The Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Algiers, Louai Issa, said the Algerian authorities grant Palestinians who illegally enter the country “private status” that sets them apart from...