Banners line streets of Cairo telling citizens to vote to extend presidency of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi Polling stations across Cairo filled with people as Egyptians voted in a snap referendum expected to allow President Abdel [ More … ]
Turkey arrested two intelligence operatives in Istanbul on Monday who confessed to spying on Arab nationals on behalf of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of whom is suspected of having connections to the murder [ More … ]
Despite blocking, the campaign had attracted more than 500,000 votes online opposing constitutional changes For the seventh time round, the Egyptian authorities on Wednesday morning blocked the new site of the anti-constitutional amendments “Batel” electronic [ More … ]
Amid continuing pressure to transfer power to a civilian government, Sudanese protesters are rejecting support from Saudi Arabia and the UAE to the military regime. With Sudan in turmoil following the ouster of longtime President [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi blocked access to opposition websites, introduced draconian penalties and vowed to punish journalists ahead of vote As the world watches the peaceful revolution that is changing Sudan in awe and amazement, it [ More … ]
The Egyptian Parliament is expected to adopt earlier this week a constitutional reform that will eradicate the latest achievements of the 2011 revolution and allow Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to remain in power until. . . [ More … ]
Warlord also understood to have private support of Saudi Arabia and the UAE Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan warlord bombarding Tripoli in an attempt to oust the country’s UN-recognized government, has won unequivocal support from the [ More … ]
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is getting ready to apply to the Supreme Election Council (YSK) with its legal right to extraordinary objection to re-hold the municipal elections that saw a large [ More … ]
In the space of little more than a week, two long-ruling autocrats in the Arab world succumbed to people power. First, it was Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the wheelchair-bound figurehead of an entrenched regime who [ More … ]
The chief executive and a managing partner of the collapsed Dubai private equity firm Abraaj Capital Ltd were arrested on U.S. charges that they defrauded their investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a [ More … ]
Egypt has reportedly decided to pull out of a U.S.-led effort to create an initiative with key Arab allies, Reuters reported Wednesday. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that Egypt had announced its decision [ More … ]
US President Donald Trump welcomed Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to the White House on Tuesday, and bestowed on his ally what he most eagerly sought: a ringing endorsement of his strongman rule, according to Mark [ More … ]
One day before Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s visit to the White House, senators from both parties sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday urging him to address “the erosion of [ More … ]
Most of those killed in the attack were children, a spokesperson for the rebel-controlled health ministry said. Air raids by a Saudi-UAE led coalition in a residential area in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, have killed [ More … ]
In pursuit ond persecution of Egyptian opponents and their families both inside and outside Egypt, a pro-regime lawyer, Tariq Mahmoud, has filed a complaint to the Egyptian Prosecutor-General’s office, accusing TV anchor Moataz Matar and [ More … ]
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