Mohamed Al-Kasas, member of the Revolution Youth Coalition, submitted candidacy papers for activist Asmaa Mahfouz for the constituency of New Cairo to the higher committee of parliamentary elections Sunday.
Kasas submitted the "The Ongoing (...)
Hosni Mubarak's publicly broadcast trial has evoked a sense of sympathy towards the bedridden and frail ousted president, while garnering deep popular support for the country's military rulers.
Cairo's streets were emptier than usual Wednesday (...)
Dozens of protesters surrounded the Manial police station in Old Cairo on Monday night to protest the alleged killing of a teenager in the area by a policeman.
The boy's family sat in front of the police station along with his body, demanding that (...)
Authorities at the city of Mahalla, an Egyptian laborers hub west of Cairo, beefed up security at the city's entrances on Tuesday in anticipation of labor protests.
Meanwhile, political groups in the city circulated leaflets urging citizens to stage (...)
KHARTOUM: Leaders of Sudan's two most powerful neighbors will be meeting with the president in Khartoum Tuesday to discuss the future of the country ahead of a referendum that could well split Africa's largest nation in two.
The meeting comes (...)
Amid deep divisions and clashes between members, the executive bureau of the liberal Wafd Party, Egypt's largest licensed opposition party, decided on Thursday to bow out of the parliamentary contest before Sunday's runoff elections. Wafd officials (...)
KHARTOUM: Sudan's president opened a conference on the Darfur conflict Thursday with a call for a national vision for peace in the desert region, though his rebel foes were absent from the gathering.
Rebel groups in the western Sudanese region (...)
KHARTOUM: The filing of genocide charges against Sudan s president at the International Criminal Court is unfair and politically motivated, said a senior member of Sudan s ruling party Monday.
One of the rebel groups fighting the government in (...)
KHARTOUM, Sudan: An Al-Jazeera cameraman released from US custody at Guantanamo Bay returned home to Sudan early Friday after six years of imprisonment that drew worldwide protests.
Sami Al-Haj, along with two other Sudanese released from (...)