Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood organised on Thursday a kilometres-long rally to support its candidate in next week's presidential election, displaying the potent network of activists it counts on to win....

In an article in the New York Times Frank D.Worth examines the scourge of torture in Libya's illegal militia prisons and its after affects as those who inflicted the torture under the Gaddafi regime...

Mohammed Fawzi Eissa, a lawyer for several ministers from ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime on trial for fraud, said he now supported Mussa as the next president of Egyp, APS reports.. Egypt...

African countries should rebuild their fiscal buffers and diversify their economies away from commodities in order to protect themselves from another possible global downturn, says Nigerian Finance...

The despair over unemployment that sparked the Arab Spring continues to dog graduates in the region. David Matthews reports from a British Council conference in Morocco that aimed to find solutions...

Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh A leading Islamist candidate in Egypt's presidential election has branded Israel a "racist state" and said a shared 1979 peace treaty was "a national security threat" that it...

Egypt’s administrative court on Saturday ruled that this month’s presidential election should be held on time, overturning a lower court’s ruling, judicial sources said. A provincial administrative...

Egyptians are for the first time getting a taste of how it is to choose a president— with groundbreaking presidential debates, face-to-face encounters with candidates on the campaign trail, and...

Libya is nearing a key moment in its democratic transition with upcoming elections, the United Nations envoy for the North African country said today, while adding that the polls are just one part of...

The tendency to resort to the arms which ousted Moamer Kadhafi poses a roadblock to democracy in the new Libya, analysts warn, while recognising the government's growing capacity to defuse crises....

Thousands of Mauritanian opposition activists staged a march and sit-down protest in Nouakchott Wednesday evening, calling for former coup leader President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to step down. The...

Two of the top contenders for Egypt's presidency are confronting a similar challenge on the campaign trail: their past. Leading Islamist Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh and veteran diplomat Amr Moussa are...

Libya began its first civilian trial of alleged supporters of Muammar Gaddafi's regime on Tuesday, officials said, as five men accused of planning to create instability by "terrorist acts" appeared...