Algeria's pro-democracy movement, which rallied every week for more than a year despite threats, security clampdowns and existential questions, having been stripped of its leverage — massive street protests — due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is now (...)
Mediterrania Capital Partners announced on Friday it has reached a €286 million ($317.3 million) final closing for its third fund for Africa, Mediterrania Capital III (MC III).
Mediterrania is a private equity firm focused on growth investments for (...)
Dubai's Emirates said on Monday it planned to operate limited passenger services to Algiers, Tunis, Jakarta, Manila, Taipei, Kabul and Chicago.
It did not say when the flights would operate.
The United Arab Emirates is permitting a limited number of (...)
Algeria will impose a curfew to combat the coronavirus in the capital Algiers from 7pm-7am and a full lockdown in the town of Blida, centre of the worst outbreak in the country, with both measures starting on Tuesday and lasting for 10 days.
The (...)
Ethiopia has recalled eight ambassadors back to Addis Ababa, including the ambassadors to Cairo and Khartoum, Ethiopian newspaper Addis Standard reported on Thursday.
The newspaper did not state a reason for the recall, only saying that Ethiopian (...)
Gabal El-Raml (“The Sandy Hill”), Randa Shaath, ElKarma Books, 2020
It is a long and truly breathtaking journey of so many going-and-coming-back trips that the author surrenders to under a stream of consciousness, whereby she is chasing her own soul (...)
Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi will host on Thursday the Egypt Super Cup between Al Ahly and Zamalek. This the fourth time the UAE is hosting the competition, having organised it in 2015, 2016, and 2017.
It will be Al Ahly's Swiss coach (...)
Ahly's Malian midfielder Aliuo Dieng has promised the Reds' fans that he will do his best to help the team defeat Zamalek in the Egyptian Super Cup, which is scheduled for Thursday in the United Arab Emirates.
"We promise Ahly fans in Egypt, the (...)
On 22 February, Algeria's protest movement, the hirak, will complete a year of weekly street demonstrations in the country that have been unprecedented in intensity and longevity since the 1954-1962 War of Independence from France.
This popular (...)
Thousands of Algerians marched on Friday, a year since the start of weekly protests calling for a complete overhaul of the ruling elite, an end to corruption and the army's withdrawal from politics.
"We will not stop," chanted a crowd in the centre (...)
"Making peace is harder than making war." The complicated political scene that the whole world is involved in nowadays proves the validity of this statement by the 23rd vice president of the United States Adlai Ewing Stevenson. The political history (...)
Egyptian author Youssef Ziedan has made it to the shortlist of the 13th International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), known as the Arabic Booker, for his novel Fardeqan – the Detention of the Great Sheikh by published by Dar El-Shorouk.
The (...)
While uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East have been quelled by deadly force, Algerian authorities are on the way to becalming a powerful protest movement without a shot fired - at least for now.
Thousands still march, but protests are (...)
Cairo is pursuing an array of diplomatic actions as it tightens security and girds itself militarily in response to developments in Libya to which Turkey is transferring jihadist mercenaries from Syria. Among them, according to the Syrian Human (...)
The Syrian quagmire is not enough for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He is apparently unfazed that Bashar Al-Assad, whom he had vowed to overthrow in a matter of months so that he could pray in Al-Umayyad Mosque, is still in power in (...)
Thousands of Algerians gathered on Wednesday for the funeral procession of the country's army chief, who fought for independence from France as a young man and this year became the country's de facto leader.
Lieutenant general Ahmed Gaed Salah died (...)
Tens of thousands of Algerians protested on Friday, rejecting the election of newly sworn-in President Abdelmadjid Tebboune as their mass movement debates a response to his offer of talks.
Protesters waved the national flag and chanted "Tebboune is (...)
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) revealed on Tuesday the shortlist of its annual award including two Egyptian novelists Youssef Zidan and Rasha Adly. The award, dubbed the Arab Booker, announced 16 fiction titles competing to win (...)
Algeria's twice-delayed presidential elections finally took place last week despite the rejection of popular protests. Out of the five candidates approved by a government appointed election committee, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 74, a former prime (...)
A former prime minister was elected Algeria's new president in a vote the authorities hope will end months of turmoil, but protesters who toppled his predecessor marched again on Friday, vowing their movement would not stop.
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, (...)
Algeria's electoral body said on Friday that former prime minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune had won Thursday's presidential election with 58% of the vote, according to preliminary results.
The final voter turnout was 40%, the electoral body's head said (...)
Polls opened in Algeria on Thursday for a delayed presidential election that is opposed by a mass protest movement which wants the vote put off until the entire ruling elite steps down and the military quits politics.
The army, the strongest (...)
Five candidates have their eyes on becoming the next president of Algeria _ without a leader since April _ as voting began in Thursday's contentious election boycotted by a massive pro-democracy movement.
The powerful army chief and his cohorts in (...)
Hundreds of people protested in central Algiers on Thursday against the presidential election hours after polls opened, with demonstrators calling for a boycott of a vote they regard as a charade.
Protesters also marched in towns in the Kabylie (...)
Major reports on international arms transfers to Libya show that the anarchy that had prevailed in the arms market following the revolution has given way to quasi systematic and sustained flows of arms into the hands of the paramilitary groups and (...)
