Turkey and Egypt on Wednesday ended a second round of exploratory consultations by agreeing to continue the talks. A joint statement by the Turkish and Egyptian foreign ministries on...

A committee representing Sudanese miners who returned from Egypt after five months of detention in 2015 said the Egyptian authorities have not handed over $8 million worth of their...

The Moroccan Justice and Development Party (PJD) yesterday condemned what it referred to as "violations affecting the integrity of the elections." This came on the eve of legislative and...

Algeria is preparing to compete with Morocco across Africa, starting with the Western Sahara file and including the expulsion of Israel from observer status at the African Union (AU),...

Moroccans started voting today in a parliamentary election under new rules that were expected to make it much harder for the moderate Islamist PJD to remain as the biggest...

Sudan seized a shipment of weapons at Khartoum airport arriving from neighbouring Ethiopia, AFP reports. The weapons arrived on an Ethiopian Airlines passenger flight prompting an immediate investigation on suspicion the...

Protesters blocked oil exports at the Libyan ports of As Sidr and Harouge today, an oil engineer at each port said, although other engineers said production at fields that...

The Egyptian Ministry of Finance's decision to impose capital gains taxes on shares on the local stock market has increased losses, experts warned yesterday. The country's local stock market...

Young people in Tunisia have formed the Youth Alliance for Democracy, with the aim of working to resolve the political crisis in the country since the president of the...

Tunisia's democratic path will continue according to the will of the people, Tunisian President Kais Saied said yesterday. Speaking at a meeting with the Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias,...

Sudan summoned Ethiopia's ambassador to Khartoum to inform him that 29 corpses found on the banks of a river abutting Ethiopia were those of Ethiopian citizens from the Tigray...

The Secretary-General of Morocco's largest opposition party said on Tuesday that he expects it to win the parliamentary and municipal elections being held today, Anadolu has reported. Abdellatif Wahbi...

The trial of the director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has been postponed until November so that the court can "examine notes and documents." Bahgat was called...

Egypt's petroleum minister said today he hoped to export Egyptian gas as soon as possible to Jordan to generate power that will supply Lebanon, Reuters reports. The minister made his remarks...

Tunisian Member of Parliament, Yassine Ayari, yesterday launched a hunger strike in Mornaguia Prison where he is serving a two-month sentence for criticising the president. The Amal Movement to...

A ten-year-old disabled Egyptian girl has been killed by her uncle and aunt in what they say was a sacrifice to the jinn. Gulf News reported Shaimaa suffered from brain...

It seems that the clouds of the Afghan crisis will rain in Yemen and bring with them more disasters than they did with the government of Ashraf Ghani. It...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to set up an independent international mechanism to monitor and report on the human rights situation...

The cases of Egypt's former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, his son and 23 others have been referred to the Criminal Court following an order issued by the...

The International Judo Federation (IJF) has banned Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine and his coach from participating in any activities or competitions organised by the body for ten years after...

Tunisia's Ennahda movement yesterday urged the president to end the exceptional measures he imposed on 25 July and lift the parliament freeze. The party renewed its demand for the return...

Lawyers in Tunisia have called for the "immediate" release of their colleague Mehdi Zagrouba, who was arrested in what has been dubbed "the airport raid case". The demand was...

The ambassadors of the Group of Seven (the G7) countries yesterday called on Tunisian President Kais Saied to "appoint a new prime minister as soon as possible, and return...

Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has expressed his support for alternative trade routes to the Suez Canal in Egypt and the Silk Road used by China. "We need to...

Algerian police yesterday announced that they had arrested 27 individuals suspected of ties to a separatist group that Algiers considers a "terrorist organisation". "The defendants were arrested on charges...

Egypt's Interior Minister and National Security Agency officers have carried out unlawful extrajudicial executions in so-called shootouts, Human Rights Watch has said in a report. According to the publication, these...

Israeli National Security Adviser, Eyal Hulata, secretly visited Cairo and met with Egypt's Intelligence Chief Abbas Kamel and other Egyptian officials, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed revealed yesterday. According to sources, Hulata headed the Israeli delegation...

Trade between Israel and Arab states has increased dramatically this year since the normalisation of relations started last year, the Central Bureau of Statistics in the occupation state has...

Mauritanian authorities today announced the death of a child and the injury of ten others as a result of torrential rains and thunderstorms in the north and east of...

Merchants and their customers called on Othmani to “leave”

Egypt's foreign ministry yesterday expressed its sincere condolences for the families of the victims of the train and minibus collision in Turkey, which left six people dead and several...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday held a phone call with his Israeli counterpart, Isaac Herzog, during which they discussed "bilateral relations and files of common interest." The Egyptian...