شاركت ناسا صورة غريبة لما كانت ذات يوم بحيرة أكبر من بحر قزوين في وسط إفريقيا، وتمتد هذه المساحة الضخمة من المياه، التي يطلق عليها Mega Chad، على مساحة 150 ألف ميل مربع عبر الصحراء الكبرى، ولربما كانت الأكبر على الأرض في يومنا هذا، وتعد بحيرة "تشاد" (...)
Addressing the opening session of the 33rd African Union ordinary summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi made a keynote announcement on finding more effective African solutions to African problems, most importantly (...)
Egypt hosted a meeting of the chiefs-of-staff of G5 Sahel countries and representatives of donor nations from 9 to 11 February.
Participants discussed ways to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation between G5 countries through mutual support (...)
Chief of Staff of Armed Forces Mohamed Farid headed a meeting of the Chief of Staffs of the G5 Sahel African Countries of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, which was headed by Farid, with the participation of representatives of the (...)
Africa shouldn't have to beg for help in addressing climate change, the president of the African Development Bank said Tuesday, adding that polluting global powers "have to pay.''
Akinwumi Adesina told The Associated Press in an interview on the (...)
Sudan has agreed to allow flights heading to Israel to cross its airspace, a military spokesman said on Wednesday, two days after Sudan's military head of state held a surprise meeting with Israel's prime minister.
The meeting in Uganda between (...)
Female genital mutilation (FGM) remains as prevalent as it was 30 years ago in a handful of countries, thwarting global efforts to eradicate it, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Thursday, the International Day of Zero Tolerance for (...)
Female genital mutilation (FGM) will take centuries to eradicate despite world leaders promising to end the practice by 2030, according to United Nations data released on Thursday.
FGM remains as common today as 30 years ago in Somalia, Mali, (...)
The countries that have suffered most from the blight of terrorism are struggling to rid themselves of terrorist groups fostered and supported by a number of nations, foremost among which are Turkey, Qatar and Iran which utilise terrorist groups and (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump issued on Friday an expanded version of a travel ban targeting prospective immigrants from Nigeria and five other countries
The move is expected to affect thousands of people and reignite debate on whether the policy is (...)
Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum told visiting envoys from other countries neighbouring Libya on Thursday that he hoped their meeting would strengthen a fragile truce in the country and help avert more foreign influence there.
"Libya's (...)
Egypt's Foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, asserted that the only settlement to the Libyan crisis is by forming an independent government, disarming the militias, and organising the army.
Shoukry's remarks came during a Thursday ministerial meeting (...)
The one-day summit held in Berlin on Sunday called for a comprehensive political settlement of the Libyan crisis through consolidating the ceasefire declared on 12 January. It urged the two warring parties — the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by (...)
In two weeks' time President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi is scheduled to hand the rotating presidency of the African Union to his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa. In the bilateral meeting that traditionally precedes the official hand-over (...)
Egyptian contracting firms are invited to participate in eight giant infrastructure projects in five African countries with investments reaching $650 million, a senior official in the Egyptian government said Saturday.
Located in Chad, Gabon, (...)
With the participation of 43 countries and 768 athletes, the Middle East and North Africa region of the Special Olympics (SO MENA) chose Egypt to play host for the first ever Pan-African Games that will take place from 23 to 31 January. The decision (...)
At least 24 people were confirmed killed after a camp for internally displaced people was attacked in Sudan's West Darfur, an international peacekeeping official said on Wednesday, as top officials arrived to try to calm the violence.
Krinding Camp, (...)
The Grand Imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb discussed on Thursday cooperation with Hamad Salem bin Kardous Al-Ameri, Director-General of UAE's Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, in Africa.
According to a (...)
The initiative “Silencing the Guns” was declared the theme of the African Union in 2020 and a roadmap to African peace and security. The announcement was made by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi during the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and (...)
The leaders of five African nations were supposed to meet with President Emmanuel Macron of France on 16 December at the invitation of the French president, but the summit was postponed after a terrorist attack against an army base in Niger — one of (...)
A global coalition of development partners has announced their commitment to fight against extreme poverty, with $82 billion for the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's fund for the poorest.
The financing, which includes (...)
The International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's fund for the world's less-privileged developing countries, announced its commitment to helping a number of countries in Africa with more than $53bn, out of $82bn allocated for the (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called on African leaders to exercise their responsibility in acting on climate change and to unite efforts to face challenges to establishing stability and peace in the continent.
Sisi's comments came (...)
Several leaders of African countries gathered on Wednesday in Egypt to attend the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development which was held on 11 -12 December.
President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou said during the first session of the forum, (...)
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 (...)
