Social & Human Affairs Bound

Nine people drowned and at least four were missing Tuesday after a boat chartered for a family fishing trip capsized near Egypt's second city Alexandria, a security source said. State newspaper Al-Ahram said a six-month-old infant was among the family members drowned...

By Aymen Jamli - Lotfi Jlassi stood facing Mecca beside the ambulance carrying the body of his brother, who died of Covid-19, and said a prayer -- one of the few rites still allowed in Tunisia's pared back funerals. In the North African country, hit hard by the...

Tunisia will receive its coronavirus jabs in March, postponing the expected start of its vaccination campaign, a health official said Wednesday. The government had previously announced it was expecting an initial 94,000 doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca-Oxford jabs to...

The Moroccan authorities dispatched police reinforcement to the northern city of Fnideq, where protests have erupted over social and economic despair among the population. Moroccan media reported rallies as having erupted because of the closure of the border with the...