Egypt has rolled out a new law that allows authorities, through a judge, to order the blocking of websites that “constitute a threat” to the state, as well as...
Tunisia has confiscated the passport of a man suspected of being an Islamist militant who once served as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard to prevent him returning...
Kenyan authorities have arrested several senior officials on suspicion of corruption over their management of a flagship $3.2bn railway project. The National Prosecution Authority said in a...
A car exploded in central Cairo Monday after colliding with a microbus, injuring 13 people, the Egyptian Health Ministry said. Reuters reporters heard a loud blast...
At least three Somali soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afgoye district, a town 30 km to the north west of the capital...
Jawar Mohammad, an online activist and fierce critic of Ethiopia’s one-party government through his outlet Oromia Media Network, returned to the country on Sunday after 13...
Egyptian troops and security forces have killed at least 52 suspected militants in recent days, the army said in a statement Sunday, as authorities push ahead...
The Arab coalition fighting Yemen’s Shiite rebels conducted airstrikes in the rebel-held port city of Hodeida on Thursday killing at least 28 people and wounding at...
The head of Egypt’s Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II, has shut down his Facebook page, saying it was a “waste of time”, after the church ordered...
Egypt’s military says it has concluded several days of joint naval exercises in the Red Sea with the United States and other countries. It says in...
Tunisian authorities said Friday they had arrested two suspects in connection with a biological bomb plot thwarted by police in Germany in June. The two men...