Tanzania

Rich countries should stop throwing up roadblocks to poorer ones trying to secure energy supplies and do more to help them make the green transition, officials from Global South...

Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs travelled to Tanzania on Wednesday to attend the ceremony for the filling of the lake behind the Julius Nyerere Hydroelectric Power Project. Sameh Shoukry...

Tanzania said, on Monday, that it had signed an agreement with a Turkish firm, Yapi Merkezi, to build a $900 million modern railway line as part of the country's...

Tanzania's Maasai people have faced a violent crackdown from police over the past two weeks, amid plans to evict them from their ancestral homeland in parts of the Serengeti National Park...

The fund aims to invest in several sectors, including agriculture, fishing and mining

Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, has reportedly foiled multiple plans by Iran to attack Israeli tourists and businessmen in African nations, amid increasing tensions and covert activity between the two...

Physics, chemistry, biology, and computer laboratories built by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) were opened with a ceremony at a religious vocational high school in Tanzania on...

Turkish-German scientist, Ugur Sahin, has been declared "Man of the Year" in the Muslim world in an annual publication by the Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISSC), Anadolu...

Israel and Comoros are currently in talks for the purpose of establishing full diplomatic relations, citing a senior diplomatic source, the Jerusalem Post reports. Comoros is a Muslim-majority island...

Last week, the founder of Palestine Travellers, Ramzi Abbasi, posted a video on Instagram showing the moment when he and his friends held the flag of Palestine aloft at...

Israel's return to the African Union (AU) as an observer state has sparked a huge backlash in the continent with as many as 14 countries said to be ready...

Russia is temporarily suspending regular and charter flights with Turkey, Moscow announced Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. The suspension over COVID-19 concerns will last from April 15 to June 1, said Deputy...

Egyptian ministers yesterday celebrated the completion of the first stage of the construction of the first dam on Rufiji River in Tanzania, local media reported. It is the first...

World-renowned footballer and Liverpool forward, Mohamed Salah, on Tuesday called on the world leaders to ensure that every child receives a quality education, including refugees. Salah, who became the...

"I believe very strongly in unity," said Tanzania's founding President Julius Nyerere. "Sometimes, I am accused of supporting unity for its own sake but I believe unity is an...

The US Supreme Court dealt a legal setback to Sudan on Monday, ruling that the African nation cannot avoid punitive damages in lawsuits accusing it of complicity in the...

The State of Palestine attended the 85th annual meeting of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation (AALCO), Al-Watan Voice reported yesterday. According to the Palestinian news website, the meeting began...

As millions of Muslims don robes and flock to Makkah for hajj, a small counter movement to boycott the pilgrimage in protest at Saudi Arabia's politics has won limited...

As we approach the final days of 2018, we take a look at some of our favourite animals in the Middle East!

Tanzania yesterday chose Egypt's El Sewedy Electric Co. and Arab Contractors to build a $2.9 billion hydroelectric plant in a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The dam will be built...

The white sandy shore in the Indian Ocean in Tanzania

Jarah al-Hawamdeh, a Palestinian refugee in Jordan who lost one of his legs to cancer, has vowed to reach the summit of Mount Everest in hopes of saving his...

There are a number of obstacles facing the implementation of the Four Freedoms agreement between Egypt and Sudan, the Egyptian foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, revealed yesterday. Speaking in a...

The African Union has condemned the decision by US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's official capital, saying this could derail the Middle East peace process. African...

Tanzanian authorities have now dealt with the issue of taking over schools that were formerly operated by a group linked to a failed Turkish coup attempt last summer, a Turkish...