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Egypt
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Society
11/22/2021 5:04:17 PM
Heavy rain continued to batter the streets of Alexandria on Monday, causing traffic jams and forcing the northern governorate to announce a continued state of emergency.
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World
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International
11/19/2021 6:40:51 PM
The EU's drug watchdog on Friday started reviewing Pfizer's Covid pill for emergency use by member states as Europe grappled for ways to tackle a sudden spike in coronavirus cases.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
11/17/2021 8:08:48 PM
An Egyptian emergency state security misdemeanour court sentenced lawyer and former MP Ziad El-Eleimy to five years in prison on Wednesday for spreading false news on social media among other charges
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Egypt
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Society
11/17/2021 5:32:36 PM
Egypt’s Alexandria governorate declared a state of emergency on Tuesday in anticipation of the seasonal El-Maknasa rainstorm.
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World
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Africa
11/17/2021 5:28:25 PM
Ethiopia's human rights watchdog said Wednesday it had been barred from visiting detainees rounded up in mass arrests under a wartime state of emergency.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
11/17/2021 2:09:00 PM
A state of emergency has been announced in Aswan and surrounding areas following severe flooding.
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World
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Africa
11/16/2021 3:48:32 PM
A gas explosion in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, on Tuesday killed at least five people, including a child, an emergency services official told The Associated Press.
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World
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Africa
11/16/2021 1:57:00 PM
The UN voiced alarm on Tuesday at surging arrests in Ethiopia since the country introduced a state of emergency on November 2.
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World
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International
11/14/2021 4:04:29 PM
Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are considering asking NATO to hold emergency talks as they struggle to manage a tense migration standoff on their borders with Belarus, the Polish prime minister said Sunday.
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World
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International
11/13/2021 5:36:19 PM
A bomb exploded on a mini-bus Saturday on a busy commercial street in a Kabul neighborhood mainly populated by members of Afghanistan's minority Hazara community, emergency workers and the bus driver said. At least one person was killed and five wounded.
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World
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Region
11/10/2021 11:03:58 AM
The Troika (Norway, Britain, and the United States) on Tuesday urged the General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan not to take "unilateral action," the three countries said in a statement.
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World
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Africa
11/9/2021 9:21:22 PM
The United Nations says at least 16 of its local staff members have been detained in Ethiopia's capital days after the government declared a state of emergency as the country's yearlong war escalates.
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World
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International
11/6/2021 9:32:19 PM
Rescuers supplied around 800 migrants on a charity ship off Italy with emergency food and warm blankets Saturday, as their appeal for a safe port went unanswered and they braced for another night at sea.
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World
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Africa
11/6/2021 8:52:23 PM
The US said on Saturday it had ordered all of its non-essential diplomats and their families to leave Ethiopia, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed urged people to make sacrifices to fend off rebels threatening to advance on the capital.
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World
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Africa
11/6/2021 6:14:44 PM
Ethiopia must be ready to make "sacrifices" to "salvage" the country, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Saturday, as fighting in the north intensifies between government forces and Tigrayan rebels who threaten to advance on the capital.
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World
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Africa
11/3/2021 9:14:18 PM
The European Commission (EC) said Wednesday it has allocated emergency humanitarian funding of 2 million euros (about 2.3 million US dollars) for those affected by recent floods that have caused havoc in South Sudan.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/3/2021 3:35:41 PM
The Egyptian embassy in Addis Ababa called on Egyptian expats to excercise their “utmost” caution after the imposition of a state of emergency across the East African country.
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World
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International
11/3/2021 3:33:38 PM
The World Health Organization has granted an emergency use license to a coronavirus vaccine developed in India, offering reassurance for a shot the country's regulators authorized long before advanced safety and efficacy testing was completed.
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World
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Africa
11/2/2021 6:10:36 PM
Ethiopia's cabinet on Tuesday declared a nationwide state of emergency after Tigrayan rebels seized two crucial towns in an apparent push towards the capital, state-affiliated media reported.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
10/29/2021 6:57:00 PM
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ended on Monday a four-year state of emergency nationwide, which was declared after two terrorist attacks on churches in April 2017.
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