Poverty rates have increased in Egypt in the years since the ousting of former President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian official data showed. Some 26.3 per cent of Egyptians were classed...

An Ethiopian official has accused the Egyptian government of trying to make use of his country’s El-Nahda Dam project on the Nile for “calming its internal crises”. Dmqa Mekonnen...

Egypt’s former presidential candidate Amr Moussa said yesterday that Egypt’s political leaders should leave the door open for the banned Muslim Brotherhood to return to political life if they...

Sheikh Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, the head of the Islamic Tunisian movement Ennahda, revealed on Tuesday that he is currently overseeing mediation efforts between the Libyan parties that aim to resolve...

The Libyan General National Congress passed a vote of no confidence in Ali Zeidan’s government ousting it from power with 124 votes. The Libyan News Agency quoted sources from...

A diplomatic delegation from the European Union arrived yesterday at the police headquarters of the Institute of Trustees in Tora, located to the south of Cairo, in solidarity with...

Nine truckloads of construction materials were today permitted, by Egyptian authorities, to travel through the Rafah Crossing and in to the Gaza Strip to help with Qatari projects in...

Border officials in Tunisia have refused entry to twenty Israeli passengers of a Norwegian cruise ship, the Jade, which docked in La Goulette on Sunday. A spokesman for the...

Egyptian presidential hopeful and former Chief of Army Staff Sami Anan was the subject of a failed assassination attempt on Sunday evening, his press office said on Monday. However,...

A student has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail after being found guilty of rioting, being a member of a banned group and disturbing the...

The Libyan Navy intercepted a North Korean oil tanker carrying 350,000 barrels of crude oil worth $30 million while it exited Es Sidra port west of Sirte without government...

Former minister of investment and Mohamed Morsi’s adviser Yehia Hamed disclosed documents which list names and pictures of all officers who have been complicit in the deadly dispersal of...

Former Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces and presidential hopeful Sami Anan said during a Mubarak trial that the Egyptian army had not detected any infiltration of...

The unemployment rate in Egypt has soared to 25 per cent, said the former World Bank Middle East Director Khaled Ikram, although official estimates show that unemployment rate does...

Below is the text of the statement issued by the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. People who are denied their dignity and rights deserve the solidarity of their...

An opposition party in Mauritania accused the regime of implementing a “regional agenda” that targets the Muslim Brotherhood and all its social activities. In a press conference Saturday, Mohamed...

On Friday, after two months of discussions with the political parties in his country, Yemeni President Abed-Rabbu Hadi Mansour made a limited reshuffle in his government, Yemeni TV have...

A leader in the flagship pro-Morsi coalition said that the latest decision by Saudi authorities to outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood is an attempt to save the coup project in...

Pharmacists, medical doctors, and dentists have staged a partial strike since the early hours of Saturday in 514 hospitals run by the Ministry of Health in Egypt. The strike...

Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdel-Atti commended Saudi’s decision to label the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist” group, expecting other Gulf nations to follow suit. Abdel-Atti said in press...

The shipment of weapons seized by the Israeli occupation army on Wednesday was intercepted near the Eritrean coast near Hasmat port, a source from the Eritrean opposition said. The...

Egyptian stock indices fell at the end of Thursday’s trading due to the massive sale of blue chip stocks in the absence of any stimuli. The benchmark index EGX...

Algerian security forces arrested on Thursday dozens of demonstrators who are against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s decision to run for a fourth term in office. Presidential elections in Algeria are...

The Egyptian Ministry of Education will likely postpone the academic term for one more week after postponing it twice, ministry sources told Egyptian news media. However, counter reports from...

Egyptian airport authorities barred Wednesday 62 international female peace activists from entering Egypt en route to the besieged Gaza Strip for an International Women’s Day event. Some of the...

Gulf States should re-evaluate their position towards Egypt as Egypt’s freedom will enhance their status, the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) said. The Coalition which supports Egypt’s ousted...

Egyptian security agencies are currently carrying out investigations into 13, 757 Palestinians as a prelude to revoking their Egyptian citizenship allegedly granted to them during the rule of Mohamed...

A government-administered human rights report criticised police forces for their use of excessive violence during the dispersal of the Rabaa protest camp in Cairo, August 14, 2013. The report...

Egypt’s Defence Minister Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi believes the Egyptian people could revolt against him if he does not resolve their problems. “I believe the Egyptian people could...

Egyptian authorities took over a school chain owned by Muslim Brotherhood affiliates in the Upper Egypt governorate of Asyut. Dar Hiraa school chain is reportedly the largest school chain...

Hamid Seddik, an Egyptian legal expert, said in a press statement that he would file a lawsuit at the Court of Urgent Matters, which banned Hamas this week, demanding...

Head of the Tunisian Islamic party Ennahda Sheikh Rashid Al-Ghannouchi strongly criticised on Tuesday an Egyptian court’s decision to designate the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas a “terrorist organisation”....