[East African] Following a stalemate in the Nile dam talks in Kinshasa, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has suggested that further talks be held at heads of state level.

[The Conversation Africa] The Egyptian author, physician and activist Nawal El Saadawi's recent death has brought her writing back into the public eye.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Board of Directors of the Tunisian Federation of Newspaper Directors (French: FTDJ) expressed "deep concern" over the recent events at TAP news agency following the "unexpected" appointment of new CEO Kamel...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The House of People's Representatives (French: ARP) passed at a plenary on Thursday a bill approving a memorandum of understanding and loan agreement between Tunisia and the European Union (89 votes in favour a...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The project People and cork "Improving the values of the cork oak cultural landscape in favor of local community development in the cork forests of the Kroumirie-Mogods region" was launched Thursday by WWF Nort...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) Marouane El Abassi, Thursday, handed to President of the Republic Kais Saied the 2020 report on the bank's financial statements as well as the report of the statuto...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The General Union of Secondary Education, on Thursday, called on the Education Ministry to take the decision to immediately suspend school classes for ten days.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A package of exceptional measures designed to break transmission chains and contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kasserine was announced by the regional committee to fight coronavirus considering the ...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The House of People's Representatives (French: ARP) adopted during a plenary session held on Thursday, a bill on the authorisation of the state to subscribe to the seventh general capital increase of the Africa...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- President Kaïs Saied met Thursday at the Carthage Palace with President of the Supreme Judicial Council (CSM) Youssef Bouzakher who handed him the second annual report of the CSM for the period 2018-2019.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- In the governorate of Sfax, six people died from the Coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing to 761 the total number of deceased linked to the pandemic in the region.

[HRW] Dear President Renaud-Basso,

[HRW] As it prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary on April 15, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is boasting about its commitments to sustainable development, democracy, and equality.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Bureau of the House of People's Representatives (ARP) decided at its meeting Thursday to postpone the discussion of the bill amending and supplementing the organic law No. 50-2015 on the Constitutional Cour...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- "The Mechichi government fell the moment the first police officer raided the Tunis Afrique Presse TAP news agency on April 13, 2021," said vice-president of the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) Ami...

[Egypt Online] Egypt vehemently condemned Houthis' continued attacks against Saudi Arabia, the latest of which was carried out by a number of ballistic rockets and explosive-packed drones targeting civilian areas and civilians in Jazan.

[Egypt Online] Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa and the workers at Awqaf Ministry lauded the role and efforts of the Armed Forces in sanitizing the major mosques.

[Egypt Online] Egyptian Ambassador in Vienna Mohamed el Molla discussed with Austrian Minister of Economy and Digital Transformation Margarete Schramböck ways of enhancing cooperation in the investment, trade and business domains.

[Egypt Online] The Gazette out Thursday 15/4/2021 published a presidential decree approving an agreement facilitating a loan between the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) and JP Morgan Europe Ltd, JP Morgan Chase Bank NA London branch and other fi...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Health Ministry said 16.5% of those who registered on Evax.tn platform were vaccinated till April 7.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The COVID-19 death toll in schools from September 15, 2020 to April 13, 2021 hit 42 and the infection tally 9,471, including 8,941 recoveries, according to data released Thursday by the Ministry of Education.

[Algerie Presse Service] Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad on Wednesday chaired a Government meeting on several issues, including the draft executive decree modifying and completing the executive decree No. 20-227 dated August 19, 2020, setting the con...

[Algerie Presse Service] Algiers -- The partial lockdown restrictions, from 11 p.m. until 4 a.m. the next day, haves been renewed for a further 15 days, as of Friday April 16 in nine provinces of the country.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- " Tunisian authorities should respect the independence of TAP news agency and refrain from using security forces to interfere in the agency's personnel issues," the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said.

[RSF] As Omar Radi and Suleiman Raissouni, two Moroccan journalists who have been held provisionally for months, continue hunger strikes to press their demands to be freed, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Moroccan authorities to stop sub...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The national carrier Tunisair on Thursday recalled in a press release, the entry conditions to the Tunisian territory, in the context of the COVID-19 health crisis.

[Nation] General Service Unit (GSU) men's volleyball team right attacker Kelvin Omuse will make his debut at the African Volleyball Clubs Championship that gets underway on Friday in Tunis, Tunisia.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA) in Tunisia on Thursday launched a new program, called #UpTunisia by FIPA, which relies on Tunisians abroad who number more than 1.5 million people, to promote inve...

[NexTVAfrica] Viu has announced its exclusive line-up of new TV series for Ramadan 2021. The nine original TV series will be available for free to all Viu subscribers throughout the holy month. The line-up will include Welad Nas, Al Maddah, Al Deek A...

[Ethiopian Herald] GERD, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, is bound to be the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa with a capacity to generate more than 6,000 megawatt of electric power. It is the flagship project of Ethiopians who have raised all ...