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The UN warned that hunger and displacement in Sudan are "spiralling out of control" amid ongoing fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, Anadolu...

Egypt's Red Sea Governorate has announced plans to establish the country's first underwater military museum, reported local media outlets. The announcement was made during a meeting on Monday held...

Somali netizens in the country and abroad have criticised national sports authorities for nepotism and corruption in the selection process for sending woman athlete, Nasra Abukar Ali, to the...

The Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday warned against resorting to foreign military intervention to restore constitutional order in Niger, where a coup has plunged the country into a...

Tunisian President Kais Saied last night sacked Prime Minister Najla Bouden and appointed a former official in the Central Bank, Ahmed Hachani, as her successor. No reason was given for Saied's...

Turkiye and Egypt have agreed to boost bilateral trade from $10 billion to $15 billion over the next five years, Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat said yesterday. This came after a...

Sudanese political forces met in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss the formation of a "civilian front" to stop the fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces....

Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Yisrael Katz sent a scathing letter to the Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, criticising the latter's failure to promote natural gas exports to...

Russia, on Tuesday, said it has evacuated personnel of its embassy in Sudan, as clashes between army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group continue, Anadolu Agency reports....

The UN, Tuesday, called for an immediate end to the expulsions of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers from Tunisia to the borders with Libya and Algeria, Anadolu Agency reports....

The Geneva-based NGO, Committee for Justice (CFJ), has said that Egyptian citizen, Mahmoud Abdel Jawad, has been tortured to death at Nabaruh police station. Mahmoud was on his way...

Security forces in eastern Libya have freed almost 400 Pakistani migrants who were detained in smugglers' warehouses, as human traffickers continue to run their operations in and from the...

The Tunisian parliament yesterday announced that the Committee on Rights and Freedoms had begun studying a draft law that calls for "criminalising" the normalisation of ties with Israel. The...

A look of admiration from behind bars, accompanied by hope for a better tomorrow that brings her and her life partner together. A life partner in whose cause she...

Libyan border guards have found the bodies of six African migrants in the desert, according to the Interior Ministry. The news comes just one week after a video circulated online of...

Political prisoners from the major Islamic political party in Tunisia, Ennahda, are facing "harsh conditions" in prison, their lawyers revealed on Monday. They made their comments during a press...

Tunisia's Union of Bakers announced yesterday the suspension of its bread-making activities in all their bakeries beginning today, Anadolu Agency reported. The decision came following a meeting of the Union's national executive bureau....

The Sudanese Army said in a statement yesterday that the head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, issued a decree admitting 23 officers that have...

The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) has agreed to extend a new loan of $615.8 million to Egypt, making it the latest such loan to the North African country. Signed...

Gambian authorities have reportedly repatriated a total of 127 Gambian nationals from Tunisia and Libya over the course of two days, AFP reports. According to the report, authorities in...

At least four Egyptian police officers were killed in a shooting attack yesterday at a heavily fortified security facility in the restive Sinai Peninsula, according to AP, citing two local...

Sudan, on Monday, extended the closure of the country's airspace until 15 August, amid ongoing clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, Anadolu Agency...

Irregular immigration into the European Union rose ten per cent in the first half of 2023 compared to a year ago, the bloc's border agency said today, with Mediterranean...

French-Congolese artist Gims has cancelled his concert in Tunisia because of how the authorities have treated black African migrants in the country over recent weeks. Je ne trouve pas...

The head of Egypt's National Council for Human Rights has compared the new prison complex in Wadi Al-Natroun to a five-star hotel. Ambassador Moushira Khattab told journalist Ahmed Moussa...

The Dominican Republic has recognised Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara, news sites reported on Sunday. In a letter, Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic, Roberto Alvarez, told his...

With the end of World War Two and the victory of the allies led by the US, it was only natural for it to assume the leadership of the...

Morocco's Bayt Mal Al-Quds Acharif Agency, a charity focused on the development of Al-Quds has entered a cooperation agreement with the Islamic Supreme Council of Al-Quds yesterday, aimed at...

In July 1949, upon the complete destruction of Palestine and the expulsion of its people, David Ben Gurion addressed his officers, who were not sure that the emptiness of...

'Resistance strategy' will be the top priority among three main topics discussed by Palestinian groups during a meeting Sunday, an official said on Saturday. The meeting will be held...

Somali authorities said Saturday that 14 people have been arrested for a deadly suicide bombing that targeted a military training facility in the capital of Mogadishu earlier this month,...

RSF leader Hemedti appeared  on camera for the first time since fighting broke out in Sudan in April 2023