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The son of the late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is still being held in solitary confinement by the regime of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi following his detention in December 2016...

Women’s rights in Egypt are under the spotlight following a series of violent crimes against women including harassment and sexual violence

The European Commission set out a 20-point action plan on Monday designed to address surging migration in the central Mediterranean, ahead of an emergency meeting of interior ministers, Reuters...

The Turkish Foreign Minister and UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Libya met in Turkiye's capital, Ankara, on Monday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu shared a photo from...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shook hands with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for the first time on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the FIFA World...

Support for Palestine is common during sporting competitions across the world

A picture of Tunisian President Kais Saied in the process of "bowing" to French President Emmanuel Macron has sparked widespread controversy in Tunisia, especially after it was promoted by...

Algerian Public Prosecution requested, on Saturday, the death penalty against more than 70 people charged with torturing a man, burning him alive and mutilating his body on 11 August...

The Libyan Government of National Unity yesterday instructed its ambassador in Athens to issue a protest note to Greece to clarify the circumstances of its foreign minister's refusal to...

African fans unite in Qatar - Morocco fans meet a Senegal fan and pay tribute to Sadio Mane.

Tunisia and France have signed a 200-million-euro (about $206.9 million) deal to support the North African country's budget, Anadolu reports. The agreement was signed by Tunisian Economy Minister Samer...

At least 12 people were killed and 30 others injured on Sunday in a traffic accident in eastern Egypt, according to local media, Anadolu reports. The accident occurred when...

The UN and European Union on Sunday expressed their disappointment over the final declaration of the UN Climate Change Conference or COP27 on reducing emissions, Anadolu reports. "Our planet...

The Ministry of Justice of Libya's Government of National Unity said on Sunday that the Lockerbie bombing case has been "completely closed from a political and legal point of...

Four Arab teams, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the host nation Qatar will compete in the football spectacle

President of the Republic of Liberia George Weah arrived on Friday in Doha to attend the FIFA World Cup 2022 tournament, set to start on Sunday, at the invitation...

Horses flex their dance skills at 4th International Horse Racing Championship in Egypt's Giza

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is expected to attend the official opening ceremony of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which commences on Sunday in Qatar. Informed sources have confirmed to...

Thirty-one organisations and associations on Friday evening condemned the suppression of a peaceful protest by security forces stationed at the intersections linking Zarzis and Djerba. The people of Zarzis...

A suspected Israeli gang leader, arrested by South African police on Thursday in an affluent Johannesburg suburb, appeared in court on Friday for an extradition hearing, Reuters reports. The...

In November 2017, at the dawn of his first term, French President Emmanuel Macron made a commitment, in front of 800 students in the West African country of Burkina...

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced yesterday that dozens of Palestinian irregular migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea off the coasts of Libya and Greece. The...

Rasha Mohye El-Din is a teacher in her thirties who lives in the city of Kafr El-Sheikh in the extreme northern corner of Egypt. On the morning of 7...

Egyptian authorities have detained hundreds of people in a nationwide crackdown following calls for anti-government protests, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. Those arrested include journalists, a prominent...

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowed on Wednesday to protect the Amazon rainforest. Speaking at the UN climate change conference COP27 in Egypt during his first trip...

Tunisian President Kais Saied yesterday warned of attempts by some parties to overthrow the state, and asserted that whoever does this is deluded, adding that their place is in...

The moves taken by Tunisian President Kais Saied since 25 July 2021 have taken the country backwards, the Ennahda movement said yesterday. "Whoever is still not convinced, whether of...

Soon after arriving in Oslo, my taxi zigzagged through the city's well-organised streets and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Large billboards advertised the world's leading brands in fashion, cars and perfumes. Amid...

COP27 host, Egypt, is close to signing final agreements to build two wind and solar projects with combined capacity of a gigawatt (GW) to boost the country's lagging renewable...

Relatives of Egyptian-British activist, Alaa Abdelfattah, visited him in jail on Thursday for the first time in weeks, but said his health had deteriorated sharply during his recent hunger strike,...

In the winter of 2017, law graduate Mahmoud Al-Amir took a train from the governorate of Asyut to Cairo to apply for the job of assistant prosecutor. He was...

A number of Egyptian human rights organisations have today condemned the sexual assault of Omar Mohamed Ali while in detention on 2 October by members of the police and in...