The runner-up in Tunisia’s 2019 presidential election, Nabil Karoui, has been placed in pre-trial detention in neighbouring Algeria, accused of “entering the country illegally”, local media reported Sunday. Karoui and his brother Ghazi, an MP, had faced a hearing before a magistrate in the northeastern city of Constantine, the Ennahar newspaper wrote citing “judicial sources”. […]
A court in Egypt on Sunday sentenced eight foreigners and two Egyptians to death on charges of smuggling in over two tonnes of heroin by sea, a judicial source said. Authorities seized the drugs brought in via the Red Sea, worth around 2.5 billion pounds ($159 million), in 2019. Seven Pakistanis, two Egyptians and an […]
Twelve people were killed on an Egyptian highway early Sunday when their bus overturned on their return from the popular Red Sea resort Sharm El-Sheikh, medical and security sources said. Thirty-four other passengers were injured and transported to the port town of Suez for treatment, the medical source added. No specific cause for the accident […]
Saadi Kadhafi, a son of Libya’s late dictator Moamer Kadhafi who was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising, has been freed from jail, said the interim government. Saadi — the strongman’s third son, now aged 47 — was known for his playboy lifestyle and briefly played as a professional footballer in Italy. “Saadi Moamer […]
One of Morocco’s leading political parties was on Friday fending off a chorus of accusations of illegal campaign spending, days ahead of September 8 parliamentary elections. The National Rally of Independents (RNI), led by billionaire businessman and agriculture minister Aziz Akhannouch, said it “rejected categorically” the claims from its rivals. Another of the three parties […]
Egypt said Wednesday it plans to manufacture one billion doses a year of China’s Sinovac vaccine, claiming it would become the Middle East and Africa’s “biggest vaccine producer”. Under the deal with the Chinese pharmaceutical company, a factory in Cairo will produce more than 200 million doses per year to cover “national needs”, Health Minister […]
