Egyptian police raided the offices of an NGO affiliated with a leftist former presidential candidate, arresting three employees and confiscating computers, the group’s director said Thursday. The Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights, founded…
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South Sudan risks sliding into all-out civil war, analysts warned Thursday, after days of battles between rival army factions that began in the capital spread to other volatile regions. Fighting was sparked by what President Salva Kiir says was a coup…
An Egyptian court has acquitted Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister and presidential candidate, and two sons of ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, of corruption charges. Shafiq fled to the United Arab Emirates shortly after he narrowly lost to the Islamist…
The United States flew 120 people out of South Sudan on Wednesday in three plane-loads amid fierce fighting in the capital, US officials said. Two C-130 planes plus a charter aircraft took off from Juba “carrying non-emergency chief of mission personnel…
17 December 2013 – Amid reports of continued clashes today in South Sudan, senior United Nations officials are calling for…
Egypt’s military has arrested a jihadist suspected of involvement in an ambush that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers near the border with Israel last year, an army spokesman said Tuesday. Silmi Mohammed Masbah was arrested Monday in Sinai and is allegedly…
16 December 2013 – The United Nations peacekeeping in South Sudan is deeply concerned about a new bout of fighting…
Heavy fighting broke out overnight in South Sudan’s capital Juba, officials said on Monday, amid mounting political tensions in the newly-independent nation. Diplomats and security sources said the fighting appeared to have erupted in a barracks close…
Tunisian Industry Minister Mehdi Jomaa was chosen Saturday to head a government of independent figures aimed at pulling the country out of a months-long crisis, the principal mediator said. “Dialogue and discussions led to a vote and the choice of Mehdi…
Morocco plans to double the number of oil and gas exploration wells drilled next year to 20, the energy minister said Friday, as foreign interest grows in the kingdom’s potential energy reserves. The North African country, which currently imports virtually…