Memories of 2011’s Arab Spring, and its fragile hopes, have been revived in the minds of many Egyptians as they’ve watched a strikingly similar dynamic play out in the United States. A brutal police killing. [ More … ]
State television says the prime minister is safe after a blast in the capital, Khartoum. Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt Monday after a blast went off near his convoy in the capital, Khartoum. [ More … ]
Toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak dead, the autocrat that was removed in the 2011 revolution has died at the age 91, receiving plaudits from Egypt’s presidency and military, as well as Israel’s Netanyahu Hosni Mubarak, [ More … ]
Despite Egypt’s improved macroeconomic indicators, the demands for bread, freedom and social justice remain elusive for most. Bloomberg on 11 February published an opinion article by Timothy Kaldas, an independent risk adviser and nonresident fellow [ More … ]
11 February, a date that tells Egyptians they are stronger,” says the Egyptian National Action Group in a statement The Egyptian National Action Group (ENAG), including opposition figures from a broad Egyptian political spectrum both [ More … ]
The Batel (Void) Campaign has called, in a statement, on all Egyptians at home and abroad to demonstrate on the ninth anniversary of the January 25 revolution The popular campaign called on Egyptians to take [ More … ]
Anti-government protesters take to the streets across Lebanon for the third day in a row as well as pro-government crowds rallying in favour of the embattled president. Thousands descended on Lebanon’s streets across the country [ More … ]
Reports of curfews in Iraq southern cities and nationwide internet access largely cut off as anti-gov’t rallies turn violent. At least three protesters and one policeman have been killed in Iraq‘s southern city of Nasiriya, according [ More … ]
Egyptians take to the streets demanding Sisi’s removal Thousands of pro-democracy protesters have marched in cities across Egypt to demand the resignation of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Videos posted on social media showed demonstrators chanting [ More … ]
Eight years after the Arab Spring transfixed the world, the Middle East has once again lit up with protest. In April, popular movements in Algeria and Sudan forced the ouster of two long-serving autocrats: Algerian [ More … ]
Egypt’s youth should find a way to put aside their differences in favour of becoming a unified front in the face of oppression, writes Karsen Breanne. In the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, the shabab [ More … ]
The ousting of former Sudan president, Omar Al-Bashir, has left various factions within the military battling for control of the state. Since the military ouster of Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir, early on Thursday, 11 April, after three [ More … ]
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 … ]
Much of the news these weeks could be about Iran — past, present and future. Forty years ago, the Islamic revolution was at its height. last week, there was a U.S.-organized ministerial meeting in Warsaw to discuss [ More … ]
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