Africa

Sudanese media outlets have reported that a Sudanese-Ethiopian investment forum is scheduled to take place in Khartoum on Saturday. The Ethiopian news centre Walta reported that the forum is...

President of the United Arab Emirates and Abu Dhabi Ruler Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Alnahyan is said to be sending a private jet on Thursday to transport Pope Tawadros...

When US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Israel could possibly be turning into an apartheid state, it was pointed out that many senior Israeli politicians and officials...

  An agreement reached with Libyan rebels in control of oil terminals in eastern Libya is being challenged by the continued political instability in the country. The rebels said...

Mohamed Soltan, son of a Muslim Brotherhood figure, has been on hunger strike for just over 100 days and is the only dual American-Egyptian citizen detained in Egyptian prisons....

They do not have a political agenda or a presidential candidate, nor are they planning to make the parliamentary elections lists. They vowed to live free and bare-chested and...

The new Algerian government is living in "isolation" after the latest presidential elections, the country's Al-Nahda Party said. In a statement, the party said that the absence of the...

The 101st Port Sudan Marine Division celebrated the return of troops stationed in Halayib after the forces finished their assignment there, Sudanese news agency SUNA reported yesterday. SUNA reported...

Britain's Foreign Office denied claims that Egypt's Justice Minister asked the British ambassador to Cairo to freeze the Muslim Brotherhood's funds in Britain and return them to Egypt. Media...

Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front (IAF) Hamza Mansour and the Deputy Comptroller General of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Jordan Zaki Bani Irsheid have met with the...

Egypt's former army chief and presidential candidate Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi hinted that he will not receive an Israeli prime minister if Israel does not provide concessions to the Palestinians...

The owners of an Israeli offshore gas field said they are in the process of signing a 15-year deal to export 4.5 billion cubic metres of gas to a...

A Cairo court banned, on Tuesday, members of the now-dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) from running in parliamentary, municipal or presidential elections. According to Al-Quds news website, the Cairo...

Tunisian parties are said to be divided over a proposal to hold the country's next presidential and parliamentary elections on the same day before the end of the year....

Aisha Al-Shater, daughter of the detained deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat Al-Shater said in press statements that Al-Sisi's attempts to link her father to violence is "unfounded"...

A blind sheikh has been accused by Egyptian prosecutors of sniping protesters in front of Al-Ittihadiya Presidential Palace, activists said. Rabei Abu-Eid was also accused of joining a terrorist...

Egyptian journalist and commentator Nadia Abou El-Magd said in an interview with Al Jazeera Monday that the televised interview of presidential candidate, Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, was empty and emotional....

Political Science professor at Cairo University Dr Seif al-Din Abdel-Fattah denounced the Al Sisi-for-president campaign, dismissing their program as one of "murder, repression and violence." In an interview with...

The Shihab Center for Human Rights holds regular press conferences to shed light on the suffering of political prisoners in Egyptian prisons, particularly those with medical conditions. In one...

  Egypt's Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat has ordered an investigation into allegations that US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime...

The oil producing Gulf States have so far provided Egypt with $6 billion worth of free oil since last July, the head of Egypt's General Petroleum Corporation revealed. Al-Mal,...

Scuffles broke out between supporters of the two rival presidential candidates in the Egyptian governorate of Gharbeya Monday, Aswat Masriya website reported. As soon as leftist presidential candidate Hamdeen...

Egyptian authorities are operating extrajudicial secret prisons which have been transformed into torture centres worse than Abu-Ghraib in Iraq, the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR...

Al-Jazeera correspondent Abdullah Elshamy, who has been held in a Cairo jail for nearly nine months without formally being charged, has lost about a third of his body weight...

The leader of the military coup Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has claimed that once he becomes president of Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood will not exist. This is despite the fact...

Libya's Parliament elected on Sunday businessman Ahmad Maitig as new prime minister with 121 votes, second deputy speaker of Parliament Saleh Makhzoumi announced. The opposition is reporting that Maitig...

A Saudi columnist wrote an apology to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan after a speech by the rector of Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University, in which he...

Chairman of the Salafist Nour Party Younis Makhyoun said in press statements that he submitted a list of 400 of jailed members of his party to the prosecutor general...

Algeria has agreed to give $200 million in loans and deposits to Tunisia's Central Bank, the Tunisian government announced on Sunday. The Tunisian prime minister's office issued a brief...

Owner of the pro-military Faraeen satellite channel lashed out at the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nabil Fahmi over his controversial remarks to NPR in which he described the relation...

This cursed time has its men and its women. These are the people who often form alliances with the government, the authorities or international organisations in order to protect...

Is there any difference between the forthcoming presidential elections in Egypt and Syria? The Europe Union apparently believes that there is. While the EU has dismissed the Syrian process...