Suspected militants from Islamist group Boko Haram killed at least 13 people and wounded eight others in a grenade attack in northern Cameroon on Sunday, a security source and a local official told Reuters.
The unidentified assailants threw a (...)
A delegation of at least three West African leaders will head to Mali this week to try to end a political crisis that has sparked widespread protests, cost at least 11 lives and led to calls for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to step down.
A (...)
International and regional powers agreed at talks on Tuesday to intensify a military campaign against Islamist militants in the West African Sahel region, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying victory over the jihadists was within (...)
Egypt's exports of iron, steel, and cement decreased 41.1 percent in the first five months 2020 to record $254 million compared to $431 million in the same period of 2019, according to a monthly Export Council for Building Materials report.
The (...)
It is expected that trade on the African continent will commence within the rules of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on 1 July unless otherwise decided amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic a year after its operational phase was (...)
Not surprisingly, terrorist organisations seized on the Covid-19 crisis to ratchet up their hate speech. The pandemic was “heaven sent” to take revenge against violators of God's law and inflict on them the worst punishment for their many sins, said (...)
The current Egyptian political order began in 2014, a year after the 30 June Revolution that overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood regime. The new order rectified and supported the process of transition and change that was launched by the January 2011 (...)
بعد ارتفاع سعر الليمون بشكل مبالغ فيه، زادت تساؤلات ربات البيوت على صفحات السويشال ميديا، عن بديل طبيعي لليمون لاستخدامه في أمور الطهي والتطهير التي لا تنتهي.
تقول أخصائية علوم وتكنولوجيا الأغذية المهندسة رقية حسن، أن البديل لتتبيل الأطعمة وعمل (...)
International collaboration with shared learning and experiences will help create resilient future, minister says
Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat took part in a roundtable discussion on 19 May, entitled "Resilient World: An (...)
It's been a Ramadan unlike any other for Abdourahmane Sall, far from the mosque during the Muslim holy month as coronavirus cases mount. With only a little over a week left, he decided joining thousands of others in tradition was worth the risk (...)
Water storage dams that provide water to satisfy the different uses such as agriculture, industry, drinking, tourism, etc. are usually designed based on three main capacities. The first is the dead storageallocated for trappingsediments, the second (...)
“It was very good news for thousands of Egyptians stranded in the Gulf that they will soon be returning home. The conditions they are facing, in the Gulf in general and in Kuwait in particular, are difficult.
All the uncertainties have led to (...)
To prevent Ethiopia from completing construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and begin operations without first reaching an agreement with Egypt and Sudan, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri has appealed to the UN Security Council to (...)
TP Mazembe were crowned champions of DR Congo for the second consecutive season and a record-extending 18th time on Wednesday after the football season was cancelled in the country due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Local media said the Congolese (...)
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Wednesday that the authorities will return more than 16,000 nationals stranded abroad in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The flights, quarantine and the medical tests from May 3 to May 9 have cost (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi on Wednesday attended with his African counterparts a virtual mini-summit held by the African Union (AU) to discuss joint efforts to combat COVID-19 pandemic in the continent, the Egyptian presidency said.
“In (...)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved $500 million to cancel six months of debt payments for 25 of the world's most impoverished countries so they can help them tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
The IMF executive board approved the (...)
Confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) infections have continued to grow across Africa, with the total number of infections reaching 15,249, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Of these cases, 816 have died, and 2,895 have recovered so (...)
Boko Haram militants killed nearly 100 Chadian soldiers and wounded dozens more in what President Idriss Deby described as the deadliest attack ever on the country's military.
The soldiers were ambushed on Monday in the island village of Boma in the (...)
Almost a month after walking out of US-brokered tripartite negotiations, Addis Ababa is working on another proposal for an agreement it said it will deliver to Egypt and Sudan soon.
“We won't subscribe to an agreement just because the US and the (...)
The spread of Covid-19 across the world, including the Middle East, has raised the question as to the impact of this pandemic on the fight against terrorism and on the Islamic State (IS) group in particular. Since governments everywhere are (...)
The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) joined the Africa Economic Zones Organization (AEZO) in a bid to strengthen cooperation with African and international organisations.
SCZone Chairperson Yehia Zaki said in a Sunday statement that the authority (...)
Niger hailed on Friday Egypt's efforts in the past years to reach an agreement over the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
During a meeting between Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, the (...)
Anxiety rose in Africa's richest nation Friday as South Africa said coronavirus cases jumped to 202, the most in the sub-Saharan region, while the continent's busiest airport said foreigners cannot disembark. State-owned South African Airways (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received on Tuesday a phone call from his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta, where the two leaders exchanged views on the latest developments of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) after the (...)
