The high licensing fees on businesses in Egypt may make the prospect of their full closure loom large in the horizon. More than two months ago, the government said owners of dozens of commercial and [ More … ]
Several human rights organizations have declared solidarity with the complaint of human rights defender Ramy Shaath and his wife Celine Lebrun with the African Commission against the Egyptian government’s violations Forty four human rights organizations [ More … ]
Lebanese leaders have already agreed a new government after a year of political feuding over cabinet seats that has exacerbated a devastating economic collapse, reported Reuters. The breakthrough followed a flurry of contacts from France [ More … ]
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has informed the country’s president that he can form a coalition government, a move that would bring an end to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12 years in power. Lapid, leader [ More … ]
Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has criticised what he considered to be a “fight for power” in the country between the president and the parliament, warning that this would negatively affect the country’s stability. In [ More … ]
Deadly fighting involving southern breakaway group follows breakdown in power-sharing talks in August Clashes between southern Yemeni separatists and pro-government forces in Yemen’s Abyan province killed 13 fighters, according to military sources. The infighting late on Friday between [ More … ]
A pro-government Algerian television channel showed people streaming into a provincial polling station on Sunday for a constitutional referendum backed by the country’s rulers, but on the streets of the capital there was less enthusiasm [ More … ]
Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Saad Hariri said he was a possible candidate to head a new government to stem the country’s economic collapse after a massive port explosion. French President Emmanuel Macron last month extracted [ More … ]
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut’s port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital if it [ More … ]
While the government tried to bury evidence of the outbreak of coronavirus all over the country, the Egyptian activists on the social networking sites forced it to confess, stated a report by Ola Salem in [ More … ]
Iraq’s new Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi took office after the country’s parliament approved a new government on Wednesday following nearly six months of political wrangling. Al-Kadhimi is viewed as pragmatic as well as having good relations with main [ More … ]
As part of efforts to take precautionary measures in the fight against the Coronavirus, the Egyptian Ministry of Health has recently started calling out for volunteers. ‘Be a Hero’ is the title of the central [ More … ]
The Lebanese parliament convened this morning to conduct a confidence vote for the new government, despite attempts by protesters to prevent the assembly from taking place. Speaker of the House, Nabih Berri stated that 67 [ More … ]
Iran’s interior minister says hundreds of banks and government sites were torched by protesters, estimated at up to 200,000 people who have taken part in nationwide disturbances sparked by a hike in petrol prices while [ More … ]
Sudan’s PM Hamdok says getting off US terror list and cutting military budget will revive country’s faltering economy. Sudan’s new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has said that he has talked to US officials about removing Sudan from [ More … ]
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