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By Soumaya Ghannoushi The people have toppled a dictator. Now they have to forge a coalition of socialists, Islamists and liberals for real change Few Tunisians could have imagined...

Families of 11 supporters of the ousted president Mohamed Morsi said their relatives died in custody due to absence of medical care in prisons. According to Anadolu news agency,...

The spokesperson of the Salafit Nour Party Nader Bakkar said Saturday his party will support the former defence minister Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi in the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for the...

A Sudanese newspaper reported on Friday that 16 Egyptian soldiers were killed fighting with the South Sudanese army who were attempting to retake Ayod city in the state of...

Prominent Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leader Hamza Zawbaa has said that "current detention conditions in Egypt recall scenes of detention in Gaza and detention in the Iraqi prison...

Below is the translation of the interview with Brigadier General Muhammad Farid Al-Tuhami. Presenter: >If we go to the Egyptian American relations I must brief you on what the...

Political scientist Dr Hamed Quwaisi said in a Facebook post that the post-coup regime is using "terrorism" as a pretext for repression, and as a PR tool in favour...

Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Nabil Fahmy's statements to NPR regarding relations with the US have sparked widespread mockery and criticism among Egyptians, including those supporting the coup. In...

The Egyptian presidential hopeful, former Minister of Defense and leader of the July 3 military coup Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi said Thursday that the Egyptian army is capable of invading Algeria...

Hassan Shaheen, a founder of Tamarod movement, said Saturday that former Defence Minister and presidential hopeful Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi "used terrorism as a pretext to eliminate the youth." In a...

The secretary general of the international Muslim Brotherhood Ibrahim Mounir lashed out at the recent position by the International Criminal Court turning down a complaint by an international legal...

Sudan has harshly criticised the US State Department's annual global terrorism report, released on Wednesday, which names Sudan as a "state sponsor of terrorism". The Sudanese Foreign Ministry issued...

Egypt's higher committee for the presidential election announced on Thursday that it plans to take take legal action against presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi after he violated the presidential election...

Presidential candidate and coup leader Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has claimed that Egypt's population increase is one of the main causes of the country's problems. He pointed to the possibility...

Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party's international legal team has submitted complaints to the African Commission on behalf of the 683 detainees who were sentenced to death in the country...

Prisoners held in Zagazig prison in Egypt appealed to human rights organisations and the free world to help relieve their distress. The President of the Dahaya Centre for Human...

Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly, in a general meeting on Thursday, passed the country's new electoral law with 132 voting for it, 11 against it and nine abstaining. In attendance...

Below is a press statement from ITN Solicitors. On Friday 25th April 2014 the ICC prosecutor, Mrs Fatou Besouda, informed the democratically elected government of Egypt that the complaint...

It requires killing. I say killing, every terrorist who carries arms, or any terrorist, whether he has carried arms or not, should be killed. He should be killed. You...

The official Facebook page for Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs raised eyebrows on Tuesday when it published photos of a meeting between interim Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy and leaders...

Haitham Abu Khalil, an Egyptian human rights lawyer, said that 20,000 Egyptian political prisoners will extend their hunger strike which they started on Wednesday till Friday, in protest against...

Voting on the proposed electoral law at the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly has been suspended after heated arguments triggered by MPs' refusal of an article that bans candidacy of...

Leader of the April 6 Youth Movement Ahmed Maher said in a leaked letter from his jail that public figures' support to the coup leader Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi will not...

A foreign relations official at the Freedom and Justice Party, Mohmed Soudan, said that Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and coup leaders have recently hired two firms in the UK and US...

Families of three former Egyptian presidents have announced their endorsement of Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi for presidency. Family of Gamal Abdel-Nasser, who ruled Egypt between 1956 and 1970, announced...

A report on Terrorism published by the US State Department Wednesday hailed the performance of Palestinian security agencies as well as Egypt's efforts in countering smuggling of weapons to...

Egypt's interim Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi said on Wednesday that, despite its sensitive relations with Hamas, his country still supports the Palestinian national reconciliation if it reinforces the broader...

American military aid to Egypt lost Senate support in the wake of the mass death sentences issued by the Minya Criminal Court, American newspapers reported yesterday Chairman of the...

Gunmen attacked Libya's parliament on Tuesday forcing lawmakers to postpone the second round of voting to choose the country's new prime minister. In the first round of voting, businessman...

Egyptian activist and blogger Bassem Sabry has reportedly died after he went into a diabetic seizure and fell off a 10th floor balcony yesterday, social media reports claim. Sabry,...

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry called on the world to respect the independence of its judiciary. Badr Abdel-Atti, the spokesman for the ministry, said in a statement: "All countries of...

German newspapers condemned the mass death sentences handed down by the Egyptian Minya Criminal Court on Monday, dismissing them as politically motivated. The Zuddeutsche Zeitung newspaper stated that the...