The last time that Siham Serwiga spoke publicly was from her Benghazi home on 16 July, during a TV talk show. The following morning, she disappeared, apparently without trace....

Turkey will open a new military base in Qatar this autumn, daily Hürriyet reported yesterday. “A new Turkish base has been built near Qatar’s Tariq Ibn Ziyad military base,” Hürriyet correspondent, Hande Fırat,...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared that an “internal investigation” will be conducted to establish the circumstances of the attack waged on, Benghazi, which killed two United Nations and wounded...

26 candidates including two women for next month’s presidential election

'We call on the United Nations Human Rights Council to declare 14th of August 'International Day for the Victims of Mass Killings'

Six years ago today Egyptian security forces stormed the Rabaa Square sit-in where thousands had gathered to protest against the ouster of Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi....

The United Nations is holding a regional conference on torture in Egypt at the same time human rights organisations are criticising the country for torturing people to death in...

Sanaa Abdelgawad and her daughter Asmaa Beltagi were in front of Rabaa’s main stage when security forces advanced on the square. The area was immersed in smoke and Sanaa...

South Sudan announced that it would scale up its monitoring of the Ebola virus after an outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever was reported in recent months in the neighboring...

Tunisian women dressed traditional clothes to mark National Women's Day in Tunis

There has been an increase recently in Israeli projects seeking solutions to what it calls the “Gaza problem”. They have been focusing on Egypt’s Sinai, and appear to be...

Hussein Salem, one of Egypt’s most prominent businessmen and an ally of deposed president Hosni Mubarak, died in Spain on Tuesday, his niece and state media said. Reuters reports...

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday urged European countries to take 507 rescued migrants who are currently stranded in the Mediterranean Sea, reports Anadolu Agency. “Many are reportedly...

Want to learn how to be a proud Egyptian? Egypt's government is offering free courses to young Egyptian expats on how to dispel negative rumours on Egypt

Egypt today announced that a two-day meeting between Sudan’s Freedom and Change forces and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front had come to a close yesterday without revealing details of any...

On 14 August 2013, Egyptians were shot, burnt alive and suffocated with tear gas. Security forces blocked the entrances so that ambulances couldn’t get in to treat the wounded.

Drought and exportation increased the value of sacrificial animals during Eid al-Adha in Mauritania

Turkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) and a South African NGO on Sunday partnered to slaughter over 250 cows and sheep to be given to underprivileged communities in South Africa, says...

At least 16 al-Shabaab fighters were killed in Somalia after Somali special forces backed by Turkey trained forces attacked al-Shabaab positions in the region, state media said on Sunday,...

Flights were suspended Sunday at Libya’s Mitiga International Airport in capital Tripoli as Khalifa Haftar-affiliated forces violated the truce reached on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, Muslim religious holiday,...

Pope Francis urged governments around the world on Sunday to protect civilians caught in armed conflicts and spare places of humanitarian importance like hospitals and schools, Reuters reports. In conflicts from Syria to...

A car bomb explosion in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed three UN staff members and two other mission members on Saturday, the United Nations said, Reuters reports. The...

On 1 November 2016, some 25-30 masked men in uniform raided the home of Hemeda Ali Hemeda and arrested his son Kareem. For 42 days, Kareem’s family did not...

Sudan’s Transitional Military Council has decided to cancel death sentences against leaders of the north division of the People’s Liberation Movement. Spokesman for the Military Council, Shamsiddeen Kabbashi, said...

The number of candidacies for the Tunisian presidential elections yesterday reached 69, just hours before the closure of submissions at the headquarters of the Independent High Authority for Elections....

A body of political, civil, human rights and Islamic activists has been formed to warn the Moroccan government that conflict over the recently-passed Education Reform Bill will intensify in...

A report published recently by Egypt’s Ministry of Planning has revealed that the government has spent more than 1.3 trillion Egyptian pounds (around $3.7 billion) on social protection programmes...

Egyptian mother Umm Zubeida has questioned by she is being held in prison for simply searching for her daughter who went missing. In a statement released by We record,...

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An Egyptian court has extended the pretrial detention of prominent opposition member and former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh for another 45 days on charges of communicating with...

The University of Hertfordshire has become the latest British university to launch a branch in Egypt in what the British ambassador to Egypt has described as “a wonderful week”...

Adel Abdulwahab Abu Eisheh has died in Wadi Al-Natroun prison after being denied medical treatment for his liver disease and diabetes. Adel has become one of a number of...