Politics Bound

Egypt on Thursday sentenced Mahmud Ezzat, the 76-year-old top leader of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of "terrorism", the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported. "The Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced Mahmoud...

The prime ministers of Italy and Greece on Tuesday joined a growing number of foreign leaders visiting Libya as it seeks to end a decade of post-revolution chaos under a UN-sponsored peace process. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, whose country was the former...

(Photo: Ultra-hardliner Justice Minister Belkacem Zeghmati)  The Algerian regime backed away from issuing a controversial law that would have stripped political opponents abroad of their Algerian nationality. he draft law was presented Wednesday, 3 March by the...

By Boureima Hama - Elite troops in Niger thwarted an "attempted coup" early Wednesday, a security source said, just two days before the historic inauguration of Mohamed Bazoum as president of the chronically unstable Sahel nation.  Residents earlier reported hearing...