The International Criminal Court (ICC) has confirmed that the complaint filed by the Freedom & Justice Party last year on behalf of the constitutional Government of Egypt is still...

A spokesperson for Tunisia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has accused the families of two Libyan citizens currently jailed in Tunisia of being involved in the kidnapping of two diplomats from...

A study conducted by Tomouh program in cooperation with the Egyptian Food Bank, the Armed Forces and PepsiCo Company revealed that the number of school dropouts across Egypt has...

The African Union’s Peace and Security Council rejected the union’s participation in monitoring the upcoming presidential elections in Egypt. The PSC recommended Monday that the AU does not dispatch...

Pope Tawadros II of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church supports a planned military operation on Libya, sources close to the Pope told Elshaab newspaper. According to the sources, the...

A report issued by the Desert Center for Studies and Consulting indicated that tensions are expected to rise between the Mauritanian Islamists and the government in the near future....

The Egyptian authorities have arrested 144 Palestinian and Syrian refugees who were, it is believed, trying to migrate to Europe, the Action Group for Palestinians in Syria has said....

Yahya Hamid, President Morsi’s Minister of Investment, has said that the anti-coup forces count not on any foreign factor but principally on the awareness and determination of the Egyptian...

Day after day, and as the date of the presidential elections in Egypt approaches, power struggle within the Egyptian military establishment intensifies. According to information circulating at the highest...

Brother of Mohamed Sultan, a detained American-Egyptian activist on hunger strike for more than 70 days, said his brother’s health is deteriorating and that he fears for his life....

Despite issuing a decree designating the Muslim Brotherhood “a terrorist organisation”, Dr. Hazem Al-Beblawi, the former Prime Minister, has described this decree as illegal saying: “This decision is a...

A number of Egyptian activists and movements announced they would hold a referendum on the army-backed roadmap and parallel elections coinciding with the upcoming presidential elections slated for May...

Dr Khaled Abdelrahman, member of the doctors’ strike committee at the Egyptian Doctors Syndicate said in a phone interview with Al-Jazeera Saturday that the strike will continue until the...

An Egyptian judge offered apologies to officers accused of shooting protesters to death during the January 25 revolution. Before announcing their acquittal, Judge Hassan Eissa told the officers: “you...

For the first time since the July 3 coup, thousands of Egyptian prisoners announced they would join an “uprising” against the politicization of justice in post-coup Egypt. In a...

The Egyptian military-appointed minister of transitional justice slammed the January 25 revolution as “a phenomenon” that fragmented the state and spread “double-citizenship”. In an interview with Tahrir channel on...

The Egyptian ministry of interior said Friday it arrested 29 Morsi supporters during anti-coup protests held in 5 governorates. According to a statement by MOI, police forces dealt firmly...

A lawyer in the defense team of ousted President Mohamed Morsi said in press statements that he expects defendants in the “Grand Espionage” case to be sentenced to death...

A coalition of Sudanese opposition parties has frozen the membership of the Popular Congress Party, led by Hassan Al-Turabi, for accepting an invitation for unconditional comprehensive dialogue with Prar...

The Egyptian army has announced the destruction of five new tunnels under the border with the Gaza Strip. A security official told the German news agency that as part...

Algerian television has broadcast footage showing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika casting his vote in the presidential election from a wheelchair. He has been sick since suffering from a stroke in...

Egypt is going through an unprecedented state of fear, unknown to the country even throughout the eras of tyranny, oppression and injustice it has witnessed many times in its...

In memory of an Egyptian commentator and revolutionary On 29th April 2014, aged just thirty one, the Egyptian analyst and writer Bassem Sabry passed away. As is appropriate for...

Last week the chairman of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council Paul Lolo Bulus recommended that the African Union (AU) should not send a delegation to monitor the...

There seems to be a consensus in the debates that I have heard recently regarding the current Egyptian issues. Many seem to believe that the revolutionaries made a critical...

Our national elites like to call relations between the Arab countries and Israel “normalisation”, but the truth is that what these countries are being subject to due to their...

The January 25th Revolution in 2011 represented a real challenge to the structure of tyranny in Egypt at all levels, especially to the dominance of the Coptic Church and...

For months, leading up to the climax July 3, 2013, the Egyptian theatre was being set for a melodrama no less sensational than the one that unfolded on the...

The difference between Gamal Abdel Nasser and Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi is as the difference between Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleon III, or Louis Napoleon as he was called. One can...

America is once again getting a lecture from a client state in the Middle East. This week’s lecturer is Egypt’s president-in-waiting, a man who should be before a court...

The South African police intervened on Sunday to prevent clashes between two rallies in the capital of Johannesburg, one organised by pro-Palestine supporters and the other by pro-Israel supporters,...

After less than a year of exceptional Egyptian-Turkish rapprochement, the events of June 30, 2013 ruptured this relationship. Similarly, when Egyptian and Iranian statesmen began to lower tensions and...