Pakistan on Wednesday halted all domestic passenger flights to stop the spread of the new coronavirus after reporting nearly 1,000 cases in the country, just as Libya became the latest at-risk Mideast nation to report its first infection.
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Governments across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have taken amongst the most draconian steps globally to contain the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Yet, there will be much more economic damage than expected, Capital Economics said (...)
With the spread of the coronavirus globally, the most important advice given by the World Health Organization (WHO) to minimise risk of infection is to follow good personal hygiene habits, like washing hands constantly, which we may find boring, but (...)
It is the Sacred House of God.
For the nearly 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide, the images of shutting down Islam's most holy mosque in the city of Mecca, the standard-bearer of the ultra-orthodox Islam of Saudi Arabia, in order to stem the spread of (...)
Africa has received a much-needed coronavirus care package from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma.
A cargo flight containing more than 6 million medical items arrived Sunday in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. The supplies from Ma, the founder of China's (...)
The fourth Cairo Cinema Days kicked off on Wednesday with Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala's You Will Die At Twenty. The annual event, run by Zawya arthouse cinema since 2017, is dedicated to showcasing the latest award-winning and (...)
As the UN, with US support, continues to press for the implementation of the Berlin process set into motion by the international conference on Libya that took place in the German capital on 19 January, two other initiatives to resolve the (...)
Tunisia will impose a curfew from 6 p.m. To 6 a.m. starting Wednesday, Tunisia's president said on Tuesday, tightening the measures to counter the spread of coronavirus. Tunisia, which declared 24 cases of the virus, closed mosques, cafes and (...)
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile River meant to turn Addis Ababa into Africa's biggest power exporter, but Egypt fears the dam, which is under construction near Ethiopia's border with Sudan, would significantly diminish its (...)
A delegation from the Egyptian foreign ministry led by Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab Affairs Yasser Othman paid visits to Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania.
During their meetings with the foreign ministers of the three North African countries, (...)
Egypt's state-run construction firm, Arab Contractors has submitted a technical and financial offer to implement two projects in Tunisia and Kongo which ranked first among other offers from European companies, its head of African sector, Ibrahim (...)
Tunisia's land border with Libya has been closed due to the coronavirus, Transport Minister Anouar Maarouf said on Monday.
Tunisia, which has confirmed 20 cases of the coronavirus, has imposed restrictions on flights with some European countries and (...)
Egypt Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry headed on Tuesday to Bujumburathe, the capital of Burundi, at the beginning of hisAfrican tour that includes South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, Congo, South Sudan, and Niger, according to a Monday statement.
He will (...)
Tunisia will immediately suspend prayers in mosques, close cafes at 4pm every day, and ban all cultural, sports and economic gatherings to combat the spread of the coronavirus, Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh said on Friday.
The government (...)
To have a better understanding about the coworking market in Egypt, Daily News Egypt interviewed Tarek Abou-Zeinab, country manager at Regus for Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Gabon. Regus is a multinational provider of (...)
Egypt's two arch-rivals and powerhouses Ahly and Zamalek overcame their African contenders to book their tickets to the semi-final round of the African Champions League and will be facing two Moroccan giants in May.
The first leg matches of the (...)
Sports in Egypt have so far not been affected by the coronavirus with international and continental events being held in the country in the last two months. All have been incident free.
Since the coronavirus broke out, Egypt has hosted several major (...)
Picasso gallery in Zamalek presents a dual exhibition of paintings: “Forbidden Fruit” byHelmy Al-Toniand Intizar(waiting) bySoraya Fahmy.
Fahmy is an Egyptian contemporary artist. Born in Athens in 1968, she travelled the world and has been exposed (...)
Two suicide bombers used large amounts of explosives in a bombing near the US Embassy in Tunis, a Tunisian spokesperson for the judiciary's counter-terrorism office Sofiane Selliti said on Saturday.
He explained that the attackers' motorcycle was (...)
Egyptian giants Ahly got a taste of revenge as they held Mamelodi Sundowns to a 1-1 draw in Pretoria on Saturday to reach the semi-finals of the African Champions League on a 3-1 aggregate win.
The record eight-time African Champions managed to (...)
نشرت الفنانة التونسية لطيفة، تغريدة لها عبر حسابها الرسمي على موقع التدوينات القصيرة تويتر، كشفت من خلالها عن تعرضها لوعكة صحية مؤخرًا، ومكوثها في المنزل لفترة.
وعلقت، لطيفة، من خلال التغريدة قائلة: «انا صارلي اسبوع حابسه نفسي في غرفتي ولابسه (...)
Esperance vs. Zamalek
Stay tuned as match is due to start 21:00 Cairo time (GMT+2)
Venue: Stade olympique de Rades (Tunisia)
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At least one militant on a motorbike blew himself up outside the U.S. embassy in Tunisia on Friday wounding five police, local media reported, in the country's most serious apparent attack since the summer.
Embassy officials confirmed the attack in (...)
Two militants on a motorbike blew themselves up outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia on Friday, killing a policeman and injuring several others in the country's most serious attack in months.
The explosion took place near the embassy's main gate, (...)
African governing body CAF said it may consider holding continental matches behind closed doors, postpone or even cancel them due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus.
Known officially as COVID-19, the virus, which originated in China, has (...)
