The Egyptian police arrested Tuesday businessman and ex-owner of Mehwar satellite channel Hassan Rateb on accusation of funding unlicensed excavation of antiquities, a crime amounting to life imprisonment. Rateb has been named in an investigation of former lawmaker Alaa Hassanin who was also arrested last week and accused of leading a gang to dig for […]
Africa’s Sahel region has become the global epicenter of terrorism, with extremist groups now responsible for over half of all terror-related deaths worldwide in 2024, according to the latest Global Terrorism Index (GTI). This marks a significant shift from previous years, as the region’s death toll rose to 3,885, accounting for 51% of the global […]
UN Under-Secretary for Political Affairs has underlined the world body’s commitment to democratic elections in Libya, after field Marshal Khalifa Haftar declared that the oil-rich country is not ready for democracy and that he would overrun the country should reconciliation and proposed elections fail to go rightly. Jeffrey Feltman was in Tripoli Thursday where he […]
