AFTER THREE DECADES in power, Sudan’s Omar-al-Bashir was ousted following months of protests by the Sudanese. Speaking on State television 2 days ago, Defence Minister Awad Ibnouf announced Bashir had been removed from power and [ More … ]
Longtime president says he quit to let citizens ‘take Algeria to the better future they aspire to’. Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned with immediate effect, according to state media, ceding power in the face of massive street [ More … ]
The presidential elections in Algeria will be held on April 18. 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, whose candidacy has been an issue of debate for days, has announced his candidacy to take office for the fifth [ More … ]
Demonstrations in several areas over death of Abderrazk Zorgui who killed himself on Monday in protest over poor living conditions Clashes between protesters and security forces in an impoverished Tunisian city where a journalist burned [ More … ]
The Saudi elite uses the veil of religious piety for its own political ends, but the Khashoggi killing has underscored the regime’s complete disconnect from the followers of a great religion. Column By: Yehia HAMID* [ More … ]
Sisi crushes spirit of Arab Spring in Egypt: Activists ‘opened the gates of hell’ Just two years ago, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi celebrated the Egyptian masses who launched the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak, saying [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay Exactly seven years ago, the Arab world was shaken by the great social movement expressing freedom, democracy and honor generating from the deepest folds of society. The name ‘’Arab Spring’’ was given [ More … ]
Tensions between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and their ally deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh have reached boiling point in recent hours threatening to erupt into armed conflict between the two sides Tensions between Yemen’s Houthi rebels [ More … ]
BY: EMRE GÖNEN* The world’s news networks have been dominated by four major press agencies since the second half of the 20th century. These are Reuters, Agence France Presse, Associated Press and the United Press International. [ More … ]
Human-rights activists claim that some of the sentenced men were tortured and forced into making false confessions Saudi Arabia defended its decision to execute more than a dozen Shia activists involved in demonstrations during the [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* Exactly four years ago, the bloodiest and most savage military coup of the 21st century was perpetrated against Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president in its 4,000-year history. Morsi was sent directly [ More … ]
BY: Soumaya Ghannoushi* The Qatar-Gulf crisis is a battle rooted in the aborted first wave of the Arab Spring. So far, Arab despots have succeeded in curbing democratic change in the region, but their latest [ More … ]
Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Wednesday appointed a new head of government, replacing Abdelmalek Sellal in the wake of parliamentary polls Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Wednesday appointed a new prime minister to replace his confidant Abdelmalek [ More … ]
Morocco’s Secretary General of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP), Driss Lachgar, has stated that the protests in the country’s Rif region are the remnants of the “Arab Spring.” The statement of Driss Lachgar came [ More … ]
Bahrain’s government approved a constitutional change which will allow military courts to try civilians, the kingdom’s latest rollback on reforms made after Arab Spring protests in 2011. Bahrain’s military courts are now authorised to try [ More … ]
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