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 Algerian Constitutional Council said it would decide whether to move to remove the president The head of Algeria’s army, Ahmed Gaid Salah, called for Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be declared “unfit to rule” [ More … ]
Hundreds of female students at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University held a protest yesterday, accusing college officials of attempting to cover up the rape of a woman on campus the week before. Screams were heard at a [ More … ]
Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his withdrawal Monday from a bid to win another term in office and postponed an April 18 election, following weeks of protests against his candidacy. By: AFP Mr Bouteflika, in [ More … ]
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has submitted official papers confirming he will seek re-election, Ennahar TV said on Sunday, despite mass protests against the move. There was no official confirmation, but state news agency APS published [ More … ]
United Nations investigators reported on Thursday that Israeli forces who fired on Palestinians during the mass demonstrations on the border with Gaza, killing more than 100 people, may have committed war crimes. The report, by [ More … ]
Thousands of people gathered across Algeria on Friday to protest President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plans to run for a fifth term. Security forces in riot gear fired tear gas to block a march on to the presidential [ More … ]
The protesters were reportedly calling for women arrested during ongoing demonstrations against President Omar al-Bashir’s rule to be released. “We are fighters, we will complete our mission,” witnesses told AFP the crowd chanted, as women [ More … ]
The large-scale and wide geographic spread of protests in Sudan over the past few weeks pose a greater threat to the regime of President Omar Al-Bashir than ever before in his thirty-year grip on power. [ More … ]
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Sunday called on police to abstain from using excessive force against anti-government demonstrators – as the UN called for a probe into deaths during the violent protests. At least 19 [ More … ]
Sudan, the beautiful country of Africa where the Blue Nile and White Nile merges and surrounds it like a necklace, is going through hard days. The street movements which started in the Western parts of [ More … ]
Ten Protests have been killed in clashes with armed police in northern and eastern Sudan. At least 10 people have been killed in protests that have swept across Sudan this week amid rising public anger over soaring [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Egypt on Monday, the third leg of his first trip abroad since the murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey last month. Despite the [ More … ]
A new package of austerity measures was announced by the Egyptian government on November 7, in response to ballooning public debt. The measures included liberalizing the price of bread flour as of January 1, 2019, [ More … ]
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