Social & Human Affairs Bound

Dissident Egyptian songwriter and poet Galal al-Behairy, who has been on hunger strike for three months in protest at his prison conditions, stopped taking water Thursday, a rights group said. Behairy, who began his hunger strike in March after five years in custody,...

One person was killed and five others were injured Thursday when a billboard collapsed in a major thoroughfare as a result of a sandstorm that swept through Egypt's capital, state media reported. The storm "crushed" four vehicles on the October 6 motorway in the...

Tunisia's President Kais Saied on Thursday proposed taxing the North African country's wealthiest citizens as a way of avoiding what he has called the "diktats" of the International Monetary Fund. Despite reaching an agreement in principle last October on a bailout...

The Mauritanian government cut internet access for mobile phones Wednesday, a day after protests over the death of a young man after a brief period in police custody. Despite the loss of internet access for mobile phones, fixed lines were still functional and business...