Members of Al-Sisi’s own regime have joined Egypt’s opposition and the president is afraid, Director of the Egypt-based Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Bahey eldin Hassan has told an audience in London. This has [ More … ]
Sudan Two sides agree to establish ‘a sovereign council’ to be run on rotation, an AU mediator announces. Sudan‘s ruling generals and a coalition of protest and opposition groups have reached an agreement to share power [ More … ]
Israel has been rocked by widespread demonstrations decrying the fatal shooting of an Ethiopian-Israeli teenager at the hands of an off-duty police officer. Protests erupted after Solomon Teka, 18, who was unarmed, was shot by [ More … ]
Daughter of prominent imam Yousef Qaradawi was ready to go home after court ordered her release, but that hope was short-lived According to MEE , Egyptian prosecutors have levelled new charges against Ola al-Qaradawi, effectively [ More … ]
An air strike hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Tuesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 130, the United Nations [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities are attempting to normalize human rights violations by passing a series of laws to “legalize” their escalating crackdown on freedom of expression, association and assembly, said Amnesty International, six years since recently [ More … ]
The Egyptian government’s widespread violence toward the Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition parties is strengthening them. Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi fainted and died during an appearance in a Cairo court last month, part of [ More … ]
The day after the battle for the Libyan town of Gharyan, burnt-out cars were flipped on the side of the highway and only a few shop owners opened their doors to see if they could [ More … ]
Former Egyptian presidential candidate and critic of el-Sisi suffers two heart attacks in Cairo’s Torah prison, his son says. Egypt’s former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh has suffered two heart attacks in prison, his [ More … ]
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