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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 … ]
Six Turkish citizens held by illegal militia loyal to East Libya-based commander Khalifa Haftar Turkish Foreign Ministry on Sunday expected immediate release of six Turkish citizens held by East Libya-based commander Khalifa Haftar forces. “Holding [ More … ]
From the days of ancient Egypt over three millenniums ago when the pharaohs, the God-like Monarchs, ruled the country until the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic regime in 2011, Egypt had never known an elected, [ More … ]
Libyan government fighters discovered a cache of powerful American missiles, usually sold only to close American allies, at a captured rebel base in the mountains south of Tripoli this week, according to the New York [ More … ]
A Canadian lobbying firm has signed a US$6-million deal to seek government funds and diplomatic recognition for a notorious Sudanese military leader whose forces have been accused of massacring protesters in Khartoum, U.S. documents show, [ More … ]
Forces allied to Libya’s internationally recognized government seized the town of Gharyan south of Tripoli, home to the main supply base of eastern forces attacking the capital, witnesses and Tripoli officials said. The takeover of [ More … ]
Seven Egyptian policemen were killed in an attack claimed by the IS-local affiliate group known as “Sinai Province” in restive North Sinai. Four gunmen were also killed in the attack on police near the Sinai [ More … ]
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