Egypt has announced a 15-percent increase in petrol prices, which will come into effect on Friday, as part of a reform package requested by the International
Monetary Fund to proceed with a $5 billion loan to the cash-strapped
government.
Reporting by AFP said the announcement comes ahead of an IMF meeting on Monday to review the April payout package, unlocking $820 million in funds after Cairo received another such tranche of the loan in late June.
Lawyers for Abir Moussi, leader of Tunisia’s Free Constitutional Party, have launched an appeal against charges that could lead
Russia is strengthening ties with eastern Libyan warlord General Haftar to disrupt European energy supplies and expand its influence in
France expressed growing alarm Friday over the detention of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in Algeria. The 75-year-old novelist, a vocal
A new report published by the UN Sanctions Monitoring Team for Somalia warns, that the Islamic State’s Somali branch,
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