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Arab ministers meet in Baghdad ahead of league summit
Arab foreign ministers met in Baghdad on May 15th to prepare for the 34th Arab League Summit set on May 18th, The New Arab reported. Attendees included ministers from Jordan,...
Press freedom crumbles in North Africa
Tunisia, once the beacon of Arab Spring democracy, has plummeted 30 places in global press freedom rankings as North African journalists face imprisonment, censorship, and digital surveillance at rates unseen...
Ethiopian political ban threatens to destroy Tigray peace deal
Ethiopia's opposition party The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), has called on the African Union to provide assistance due to the Ethiopian federal government’s decision to revoke its legal status...
60 years of diplomatic ties between Germany and Israel
The leaders of Germany and Israel marked the ongoing ties between their nations on May 12th, six decades after diplomatic ties between the countries started, according to Al-Monitor. Germany’s president, Frank-Walter...
Algeria’s floods kill five and injure over 100
Algeria's floods have left five dead and over 100 injured after heavy rainfall caused severe flooding across multiple regions, according to the nation’s civil defence service on May 15th, The...
Sudan extends opening of Adré border for aid to Darfur
Responding to international scorn, the Sudanese government has extended the opening of the Adré border crossing with Chad for another three months. The corridor is a critical channel for humanitarian...
Geopolitics
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Mauritania’s former president jailed for corruption
Mauritania’s former president has been jailed for 15 years and fined three million dollars on charges of corruption. The move may mark a pivotal shift...
Spy Chief Disputes Netanyahu Dismissal
Israeli Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar has submitted a scathing affidavit to the Supreme Court. He claims Netanyahu tried to dismiss him after he refused...
Sarkozy faces prison over alleged Libyan cash
Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, faces prison over alleged Libyan financing of his campaign in 2007. According to AP News, the financing of the...
Prosecutors demand 20-year jail term for ex-Mauritanian president
Mauritanian prosecutors have demanded an appeals court impose a 20-year jail sentence on former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz for abuse of office and embezzlement,...
Morocco falls further down corruption index
Transparency International reported in its 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index, published on February 11th, that Morocco lost a point and dropped to 37 out of 100,...
Politics
Press freedom crumbles in North Africa
Tunisia, once the beacon of Arab Spring democracy, has plummeted 30 places in global press freedom rankings as North African journalists face imprisonment, censorship, and...
Ethiopian political ban threatens to destroy Tigray peace deal
Ethiopia's opposition party The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), has called on the African Union to provide assistance due to the Ethiopian federal government’s decision...
Tunisia’s democracy faces breaking point
The future of Tunisian democracy hangs in the balance after former Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh was sentenced to 34 years in prison on the 2nd...
Algeria-France relations reach “totally blocked” state
Algeria is set to expel more French diplomats, with France ready to respond with its own expulsions. The relationship between the two countries continues to...
Burkina Faso strenghtens ties with the Taliban
Burkina Faso's controversial leader Ibrahim Traoré’s pivot from the West continues, now deepening relations with Afghanistan’s Taliban regime. The unexpected alliance might be an attempt...
Algeria orders repatriation of French personnel as diplomatic row escalates
The Algerian authorities have demanded immediate repatriation of several French personnel, deepening tensions that threaten to unravel months of attempted reconciliation efforts between the two...
Tabloid
Trump claims China talks as Beijing denies negotiations
US President Donald Trump claimed in an interview published on April 25th that tariff negotiations with China were under way, although Beijing swiftly denied that...
Pope Francis has died, the Vatican announced
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced, after his final address on Easter Sunday, April 20th. “Dearest brothers and...
Vatican announces the death of Pope Francis, aged 88
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced, as dedications and obituaries flood in. “At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop...
Ex-HTS leader Al-Sharaa named in Time’s 100 influential list
Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s interim president and former Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader, was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2025, the only...
French film star Depardieu begins trial on sexual assault charges
French film star Gérard Depardieu, famous both inside and outside of France and the highest-profile figure in French cinema to face allegations of sexual assault...
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