Participants in the Tunisian national dialogue announced on Friday an agreement to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on separate dates. The political parties represented in the Tunisian constituent assembly...
The electoral campaign of presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi demanded the exclusion of the votes cast on the third day of elections, citing electoral fraud. In a statement Friday, the...
Vice president of the Shura Council of the Egyptian Islamic Group (Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya) Osama Hafez said that Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi's statements on the role of Islam in politics "aim...
The British idiom "pig in a poke" could aptly be used to describe the state of the latest Egyptian election. It comes from the Middle Ages when dodgy butchers...
A new study published including Moroccan lecturer Said Haddad confirmed that Military institutions in the Maghreb are not similar and each has its own independent relationship with the politics...
In the clearest indication of the shock felt at the low turnout at the Egyptian presidential elections, and understanding the limited popularity of the coup, an Israeli military and...
Newly appointed Libyan Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteg held his first parliamentary meeting with all the members of his government on Thursday. The prime minister's official page reported that Maiteg...
A video exclusive to Rassd Network, titled "The moment a police officer assaulted an elderly woman in front of a polling station in El-Mahalla El-Kubra", ranked as the number...
Egypt's newly elected President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi said he will choose "fighters" to bring about what he called "security and stability "in Egypt, following the election which has been...
Egypt's leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi yesterday conceded defeat in the country's presidential election after preliminary results revealed that former army chief Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi achieved a landslide victory. "I...
Some 10 to 15 million votes were cast for Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi in Egypt's presidential elections, Reuters quoted Western diplomats as saying, this is despite initial estimates indicating that...
Foreign ministers of countries neighbouring Libya yesterday expressed "grave concern" about the developments in the security situation in the country. In a statement issued following the meeting of the...
Egypt's leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi conceded on Thursday his defeat in the country's post-coup presidential election after preliminary results revealed that former army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi had achieved...
In the wake of the restoration of the concept of a Palestinian reconciliation including the combination of Hamas and Fatah fighters and the start of the formation of true...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that an "intense crackdown" on the opposition in Egypt is creating a "repressive environment that severely undermines the fairness of the elections."...
Experts and professionals from the world of broadcasting in Europe and the Middle East came together on Thursday for a Middle East Monitor-organised seminar in London on the issue...
A panel discussion at the University of London chaired by Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph brought together a range of critical views on the events in Egypt since...
A number of revolutionary groups are slated to hold a massive protest in Tahrir square after the coronation of Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi for president later this month, a spokesperson for...
A Lebanese court yesterday rejected a request from Tunisia to confiscate funds held in a Lebanese bank account that belongs to the wife of Tunisia's ousted president Zine El...
The Turkish news agency Anadolu said in a report Wednesday that unlike past elections where Egyptians impressed the world with their high turnout, they "confused" the world in the...
A statement by the campaign of Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi claimed he garnered 92.9 per cent of votes after counting ballots in 3006 out of 13,900 polling...
The repression that followed the ouster of Mohamed Morsi has severely undermined the fairness of the 2014 presidential elections in Egypt, said the international rights group Human Rights Watch...
Armed militants in oil rich Niger Delta yesterday accused Israel of wanting to confront the armed group Boko Haram to free the girls they had detained and which the...
It appears that the calls for boycotting the Egyptian presidential elections found great resonance, larger than expected by its owners. The turnout at the second day of the elections...
The Egyptian presidential election candidate Hamdeen Sabahi did not respond to pressure from his supporters to withdraw from the presidential elections. Instead, he decided to continue his campaign despite...
Egyptian mass media rebuked the Egyptian people on Tuesday for not going out to cast their votes in the presidential election that coup leader Abdul-Fatah Al-Sisi is largely expected...
Tanzania has called for the Comprehensive Framework Agreement signed by upstream Nile basin countries in 2010 and known as the Entebbe Agreement to be reviewed, the Anadolu news agency...
The columnist Mustafa Bakri, editor of Elaosboa journal said: "The presidential candidate, Field Marshal Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, may issue an apology in accepting the presidency after succeeding due to...
Egyptians continued to vote in "limited" numbers in the afternoon of the second day of the presidential elections, while reports showed a distinct lack of young voters, Anadolu news...
A young Tunisian man died after being attacked by a swarm of bees in the town of Sidi Thabet in the Ariana Governorate in northern Tunisia. The Secretary General...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is deeply concerned by the recent developments in Libya, in particular "the growing military mobilisation in and around the capital Tripoli", according to a...