Egyptians have been gripped by the dramatic start to their country’s unexpectedly early presidential election campaign. President Abdul Fattah al...
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The Algerian leadership has often advocated for Palestinian rights and causes, including the status of the Palestinian state at the UN. Algerian President...
Egypt’s health ministry says 38 people have been injured in a huge fire at a police complex in Ismailia. Twenty-four people have been treated in hospital...
UN Expert’s Visit an Opportunity to Press for Urgent Reforms, End Arbitrary Detentions Algerian authorities have crushed civic space over the past four years...
A student has cycled 4,000km (2,500 miles) across West Africa, enduring arrests and blazing heat, for a spot at his dream university. Mamadou Safayou Barry set...
A campaign using artificial intelligence to impersonate Omar al-Bashir, the former leader of Sudan, has received hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok...
Military coups were a regular occurrence in some parts of Africa in the decades after independence. Now, after a period of relative democratic stability, there...
The thoughts of one Moroccan schoolteacher immediately turned to her pupils when she felt the 6.8-magnitude earthquake strike a week ago. Nesreen Abu ElFadel...
The catastrophic earthquake in Morocco has destroyed entire towns and claimed almost 3,000 lives. In England, which is home to tens of thousands of Moroccans...
A dog called Colin scampers across the earthquake’s wreckage in Morocco’s remote mountain village of Douzrou. The bell attached to his collar rings...