One year after protests broke out in Sudan over soaring bread prices, celebrations are planned across the country today to mark the uprising that brought down Omar Al-Bashir. A year ago, on 19 December 2018, [ 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 … ]
International donors at a Belgian conference pledged $7bn to help Syrian refugees, falling short of what the UN said it needed on the eve of the eighth anniversary of the country’s uprising. More than 370,000 [ More … ]
A fresh round of Syria peace talks aimed at ending the six-year-old civil war may restart in Geneva next month, Staffan de Mistura said on Wednesday. A new round of Syria peace talks could take [ More … ]
Tunisian activists say they are frustrated by the slow progress on reforms to improve civil liberties six years after an uprising calling for more freedoms in the North African country. The 2011 revolution that toppled [ More … ]
A Bahraini appeals court sentenced three people to death on Thursday over bombings that targeted police patrols in a majority-Shia village, the state-run news agency reported. Three people were sentenced to death by Bahraini courts [ More … ]
Bahrain said Saturday that it had arrested 25 suspects accused of involvement in unrest in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, including a deadly jailbreak. Bahrain said Saturday that it had arrested 25 suspects accused of involvement in [ More … ]
During an interview with the editors-in-chief of the state-run Egyptian newspapers Al-Ahram, Al-Gomhuria, and Akhbar Al-Youm, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said that he may run for a second term in office, said Anadolu Agency. When he was [ More … ]
A recent field study for the Egyptian Center for Media and Public Opinion Takamol Masr found that 74% of the Egyptians refuse the continuation of the al-Sisi regime while 11% only wanted the regime to continue and [ More … ]
Researcher Michele Dunne has repeated the advice that was given by The Economist in one of its editorials calling al-Sisi not to run for the 2018 presidential elections. Dunne, the researcher at Carnegie, wrote on her twitter account,” Suggestion [ More … ]
By: Mohammed Al-Minshawi* No other country is comparable to Turkey in its geo-strategic importance to the United States’ interests around the world. Also, no other country, except for the U.S., can provide for Turkey what [ More … ]
Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog warned of what he called “growing hatred and racism” in Israel encouraged by right-wing politicians, adding that it could pave the way for further deadly violence, Hebrew-language news site NRG [ More … ]
Protesters have clashed with the police and paramilitary units at a demonstration in a town south of Amman, demanding jobs and better economic conditions for their region, Al Jazeera reported. Residents of Dhiban have clashed [ More … ]
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