Africa

An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced a man to death over the murder of a Coptic priest in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria in April at a popular seaside promenade....

Tunisia's powerful labor union on Saturday reiterated its rejection of conditions proposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for reforming the country's economic sectors, Anadolu Agency reports. "We will...

Prosecutors of the federal court in the US state of Virginia have recommended indicting Libya's warlord Khalifa Haftar for war crimes in absentia, Washington-based Libyan human rights defender Emadeddine...

The European Union, on Friday, said that Algeria appears to be violating the EU-Algeria Association Agreement by blocking trade and stopping financial transactions with Spain, Anadolu News Agency reports....

Algerian conjoined twins have been successfully separated by Turkish doctors in Istanbul, the hospital where the operation took place announced on Friday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Chifaa and Safaa...

Algeria suspended a 20-year friendship treaty with Spain this week and moved to limit trade with its northern neighbour, raising more questions about the potential impact on the long-established...

A blockade of Libyan oil output by groups aligned with forces in the east of the country expanded yesterday and today with the closure of two more export terminals,...

The British government's controversial plan to send migrants arriving illegally in Britain to Rwanda is unsafe and irrational, lawyers seeking an injunction to stop the first planned deportations told...

The European Commission has proposed a deal to EU member states with Egypt and Israel to boost imports of natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean, according to a draft...

Sudan's main civilian opposition coalition has begun an "unofficial" meeting with the military mediated by the United States and Saudi Arabia, two political sources said yesterday, according to Reuters. The...

The leader of Tunisia's powerful UGTT Union said on Thursday it was being "targeted" by authorities after it refused to participate in talks on a new constitution called by...

Tunisia's presidency announced that President Kais Saied received Lord Tariq Mahmoud Ahmad, State Minister for South Asia, North Africa, the United Nations and the Commonwealth at the Foreign, Commonwealth...

The administration of Egypt's national dialogue announced on Wednesday that it will hold its first sessions of national political dialogue during the first week of July, Al-Ahram Online reported....

Dozens of judges on Wednesday participated in a protest in front of the Court of First Instance in Tunis to object to the: "Indecent assault against judges, and to...

Algeria has with "immediate effect" ended its 20-year-old cooperation treaty with Spain after Madrid reversed its long-standing policy of neutrality on the Western Sahara conflict in March by backing Morocco's position. "Algeria...

Tunisia and Israel are exploring the possibility of establishing closer ties, Israel Hayom reported yesterday, adding that Algeria is attempting to "derail" their efforts. An official told the newspaper...

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is 58 years old this June, while the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 110th birthday last January. They are two of the longest...

An Algerian court yesterday sentenced journalist Ihsane El Kadi, director of M Radio, for six months after he published an article on the right to participate in the Hirak movement....

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) yesterday described President Kais Saied's decision to dismiss 57 judges, as a "new threat to freedom and the rule of law in Tunisia"....

On the fertile clay plains of Sudan's Gezira Scheme, farmers would have normally started tilling the soil weeks ago before planting out rows of sorghum, peanuts, sesame, and other...

Human rights groups said they had today submitted papers at the High Court in London to get an injunction to halt next week's planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, a...

Egypt has made a new record high in gas imports from Israel in the first quarter of the year. According to the weekly newsletter by the Middle East Economic...

Some 99 per cent of judges and judicial staff suspended their work on the second day of the week-long strike in rejection of President Kais Saied's decision to dismiss...

The Algerian army on Tuesday concluded night drills using live ammunition held on the border of Morocco and the disputed Western Sahara region. A statement issued by the Algerian...

The Indian monsoon depression has hit the Middle East causing high temperatures in the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Iran and Egypt. The city of Jahra in Kuwait recorded...

The United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Adam Abdel Mawla warned on Tuesday that Somalia was "on the brink of a deadly famine that could kill hundreds of...

An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced 52 defendants to prison and acquitted five others in a case known in the media as the "Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in." The state-run MENA news...

At least 28,670 people were on death row around the world at the end of 2021, Amnesty International said in a report released yesterday, with Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia...

The legal expert tasked with rewriting Tunisia's Constitution said yesterday that he will present a draft version, removing any reference to Islam in order to counter "extremism". The first...

The Sidi Mohamed Court in Algiers sentenced, on Monday, Said Bouteflika, the jailed brother of late President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to eight years imprisonment for corruption, Anadolu news agency reported,...

Head of the Tunisian National Salvation Front Ahmed Nejib Chebbi announced on Sunday that the front supports the formation of a "national salvation government", pointing out that its establishment...

Transcripts from a White House meeting during the Israeli war on Lebanon in 1982 showed Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin pushed for the expulsion of Palestine refugees from Lebanon to Libya or Saudi Arabia, Haaretz revealed yesterday. Journalist Ofer Aderet wrote...