North Africa

In Tunisia, civil society figures condemn the words of an Islamist deputy who justified the assassination in France of history professor Samuel Paty. Coming from academia, research, or the art world, about forty of them have signed an unequivocal petition to condemn dumb remarks and demand justice. The signatories, primarily from progressive and modernist academia, find it scandalous that a member of the nation can afford to justify death by beheading of French teacher, reports our correspondent in Tunis, Michel Picard.…

Former Sudanese Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi on Saturday issued an announcement saying President Donald Trump that Sudan would start normalizing ties with Israel. Al-Mahdi, who's the nation's final democratically elected premiere and leads the nation's largest political occasion, mentioned he withdrew from a government-organized non secular convention on Saturday within the capital Khartoum, in protest of Friday's announcement. "This assertion is opposite to Sudan's nationwide regulation ... and…

Donald Trump introduced with nice fanfare the normalization of ties between Israel and Sudan. The US president took the chance to deal with one other challenge that Sudan and Egypt cherished, the massive dam on the Nile that Ethiopia has begun to fill with out the prior consent of its neighbors and regardless of threats from Cairo. Donald Trump went additional by guaranteeing that Egypt needed to blow…

Ethiopia on Saturday condemned "war-threatening threats" over the massive dam it has nearly accomplished on the Blue Nile River, a day after US President Donald Trump stated downstream Egypt would "blow up" the challenge it has known as an existential menace. With out naming Trump or america, the assertion from Prime Minister…

Egyptians started voting Saturday within the first section of a parliamentary election, a vote prone to produce a toothless home of representatives stuffed with supporters of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The election comes because the Arab world's most populous nation faces a slight improve in coronavirus instances, and…

Covid-19 pandemic has contaminated greater than 40 million folks, claiming not less than 1.1 million lives around the globe. Listed here are updates for October 19:

US President Donald Trump on Friday, October 23, introduced the normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and Sudan and warranted that the 2 international locations had entered into "peace". After the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the Hebrew state will normalize its relations with a 3rd nation. Israel and Sudan…

The UN announced this Friday 23. October a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire in Libya between the Khalifa Haftar camp in Benghazi and the government of national unity based in Tripoli. The warlords signed an agreement after five days of talks in Geneva. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday welcomed the ceasefire…

Three years ago, FC Pyramids wanted to shake the hierarchy beyond the Egyptian championship, that is, at the continental football level. Against the Moroccans from the sporting renaissance Berkane in the Confederation Cup final on Sunday 25 October in Rabat, the bet could already be a success. At the Prince Moulay Abdallah…

Libya's fighters signed an settlement on "a everlasting ceasefire in all areas of Libya," the United Nations Assist Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) stated in a Fb submit on Friday. Following mediation led by UN envoy Stephanie Turco Williams this week, the Joint Army Fee reached 5 + 5, what the UN referred to as an "essential turning…