Egypt foreign ministry rejects foreign condemnation of Al Jazeera verdicts
Egypt's foreign ministry has expressed its objection to foreign criticism of Egypt's judiciary and its rulings, following a verdict on Monday that sent three...
El-Sisi says will donate 50 percent of salary, wealth to Egypt’s...
Egypt's recently appointed President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Tuesday he will donate half of his monthly salary and half of his wealth in support...
Sudanese Christian woman rearrested while attempting to leave country
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian woman who was released from death row on Monday was rearrested on Tuesday at Khartoum airport while attempting...
Al Jazeera journalists: Egypt’s president will not interfere
CAIRO (Reuters) - Newly elected Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday he would not interfere with judicial verdicts, following an international outcry...
Tunisia began voter registration for legislative and presidential elections
Tunis - Tunisia began voter registration on Monday for heavily-delayed legislative and presidential elections due to take place later this year.
The elections would consolidate...
Libya to ‘protect’ foreign nationals after Haftar’s threats
Libya's Foreign Ministry said Monday that it had nothing to do with a warning issued earlier by a rogue army general to Turkish and...
Al-Jazeera journalists sentenced on terrorism-related charges
Egypt's judiciary has dealt a shocking blow to the principle of free speech after three journalists for Al-Jazeera English were sentenced to between seven...
Egyptian broadcaster suspended after live row with Ethiopia ambassador
An Egyptian broadcaster, Rania Badawy, has been suspended for arguing with Ethiopia's ambassador to Cairo during a live TV phone-in about Addis Ababa's ongoing Nile...
Libya’s detention centres accused of torturing refugees and migrants
Migrants at a detention centre in Zawiya, Libya. HRW says up to 6,000 migrants and refugees are detained in severely overcrowded conditions with dire...
Trial of 12 Tahrir Square sexual harassers to start on 25...
Cairo Appeal Court set 25 June for the trial of 12 suspects involved in five cases of sexual harassment incidents that took place in...
