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Woman journalist, two others killed in Cairo clashes

Fri Mar 28, 2014 22:15:32

Three people including an Egyptian woman journalist have been killed in Cairo as police clashed with Islamists protesting against ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's presidency bid, a security official says.

715 more Morsi supporters on trial for their lives

Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:10:10

Egypt's prosecutor general on Wednesday referred 715 alleged supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi to trial on capital charges, local media reported.

Protesters rally in Algiers against Bouteflika presidential bid

Sat Mar 22, 2014 19:29:41

People have demonstrated in Algiers calling for a change of government, as ailing 77-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika seek reelection next month.

UN warns: Torture, cannibalism, gruesome lynching in CAR

Thu Mar 20, 2014 22:52:22

The United Nations Human Rights chief Navi Pillay has warned about level of atrocities being committed in the Central African Republic (CAR) where people are being killed on a daily basis.

Car bomb kills at least eight at Libya army base

Mon Mar 17, 2014 16:29:52

At least eight people have been killed and 14 wounded when a car bomb exploded outside a Libyan army base in the eastern city of Benghazi, hospital sources and a security official said.

Israeli apartheid through South African lens

Thu Mar 13, 2014 21:35:21

In their book, Why Israel?, Suraya Dadoo and Firoz Osman compare Israeli apartheid with that practiced by the apartheid regime in South Africa and not only find striking parallels but also the extreme form Zionist apartheid has taken. The result is an exciting and informative book.

Ousted Libyan PM flees country after oil tanker escape

Thu Mar 13, 2014 08:01:27

Former Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan sought refuge in Europe on Wednesday after parliament voted him out for failing to stop rebels independently exporting oil in a challenge to Libya's fragile unity.

3-year long state of emergency lifted in Arab Spring birthplace

Thu Mar 6, 2014 19:38:20

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has lifted a three-year long state of emergency which was set at the time of 2011 revolution in the North African country.

The last Muslim of CAR’s Mbaiki killed by radical mobs

Tue Mar 4, 2014 20:21:02

The last Muslim in the Central African Republic town of Mbaiki was killed by radical Christians who have been attacking, killing and mutilating Muslims in the town everywhere they find them.

Christian mobs besiege Muslims in Central African Republic

Sun Mar 2, 2014 11:50:37

The Muslim community in the Central African Republic (CAR) is under siege amid the failure by the French and allied troops to disarm violent Christian mobs in the country.

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