22 November 2017 : Federal Security Minister Mohamed Abukar Islow is set to present the anti-terrorism and the arms control bills before the parliament. Both bills were previously endorsed by the Council of Ministers. Both bills were prepared and tabled ...
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21 November 2017 : Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan discussed with visiting Somalian President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo how to boost bilateral ties and cooperation in fighting terrorism. Sheikh Mohammed, also deputy supreme commander of the United Arab Emirates ...
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15 November 2017: a South Giza criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence against a man convicted of killing Coptic Orthodox priest Samaan Shehata in Cairo last October. The court has referred the case to the country’s Grand Mufti for a ...
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14 November 2017: an Egyptian military court has referred the files of 14 defendants to the country’s top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, seeking his approval of their execution. The defendants have been convicted of violence and allegedly killing a ...
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13 November 2017 : the Egyptian Supreme Military Court of Appeals rejected the appeals filed by defendants in case number 45/2013, Partial Military Offences in North Sinai, attached to case number 411/2013, Military crimes in Ismailia. All 16 defendants are ...
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13 November 2017: the state of emergency established in Tunisia two years ago after a series of bloody jihadist attacks was again extended, this time by three months, according to the Tunisian presidency. “After consultations with the Prime Minister and ...
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8 November 2017: newly appointed head of the prison of Rabta, Leila Jdidi delivered to the newspaper Assbah, an interview on the conditions of prisons in Tunisia. It should be noted that Jdidi is a psychologist, she had previously held ...
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7 November 2017: the Court of Cassation cancelled the execution verdict of one defendant and the 10-year jail sentences of six others and ordered their retrial over forming a terrorist cell to carry out anti-government activities, official MENA news agency ...
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6 November 2017: Somalia’s Islamist al Shabaab insurgency shot four men accused of spying in a public execution that underscored the insurgents’ control of swathes of the country’s southern region, even as the government girds up for an offensive against ...
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25 October 2017: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said Egypt is keen on adhering to human rights obligations. During a press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, Sisi expressed his keenness on establishing a modern civil democratic state in ...
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