Browsing: North Africa

Years of planning have gone down the drain as Algeria’s president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, on Saturday ruled out a visit to France. A number of unresolved historical…

An alarming New York Times investigation has exposed how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is sneaking weapons into Sudan through Chad under the guise of humanitarian…

Egypt is home to some half-million registered refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan, according to the UN. Egypt does not place its refugees in camps.  Instead,…

54 years ago today, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser’s passed on to the ancestral realm. A pan-Africanist and pan-Arabist, Nasser had ambitions of returning all of…

Early on 26 September, the Sudanese military launched a major offensive to regain control of the capital of Khartoum, which it had lost to the paramilitary…

In this video, the founder of the Sudan Updates Instagram page, Ameen Mekki – speaking to the @mediastormpod – explains how Sudan’s exploitation by global powers…

Two Sudanese men typify the war-torn country’s unbowed spirit as the 17-month-long conflict rumbles on. British outlet Channel 4 News featured Rasheed Ahmed and Mohammed Bannaga…

In this viral clip, Libya’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Taher EL-Sonni, accused his Israeli counterpart, Danny Danon, of deploying double standards on the question…

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan have looted the country’s National Museum in Khartoum, smuggling artefacts across the border to South Sudan, according to reports…

Zahi Hawass, archaeologist and former Egyptian minister of antiquities, has launched an online petition calling on Germany to return the famous bust of the ancient Egyptian…