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 … ]
Hashtag “Sisi Leave” in (Arabic) has been trending in the past few hours in Egypt with people urging Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to resign amid recent austerity measures carried out as part of economic reforms ordered [ More … ]
Palestinian protests on the Gaza-Israel border have dropped off over the past two days, amid reports that Egyptian officials intervened to restore calm after dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire. Gaza’s dominant Islamist [ More … ]
The Israeli army has killed at least 28 Palestinians and injured at least 1,600 others alongside the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. After [ More … ]
Egyptian police arrested 21 people for taking part in protests against the government’s surprise decision to hike fares on Cairo’s subway as part of austerity measures meant to restore the economy, officials said on Saturday. [ More … ]
Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel on Wednesday met with the head of Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, Nadav Argaman, in Tel Aviv, Israeli media has reported. Israel has charged the head of Egypt’s intelligence services, [ More … ]
Saudi Arabian forces have replaced Egyptian troops on Tiran Island, marking the first step in the handover over of two Red Sea islands ceded to the Persian Gulf kingdom in a 2016 border agreement, according [ More … ]
Dozens injured in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, and the West Bank, as casualties mount following violent clashes Four Palestinians were killed with dozens reported injured during clashes between protesters and Israeli soldiers in the second [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia announced its first project on Tiran and Sanafir islands, Egypt’s former islands. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has announced plans for a new economic zone in the kingdom’s northwest region with up to [ More … ]
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