North Africa

Protesters in Tunisia on Wednesday clashed with police in a mining town in the southern part of the country as they demand jobs and development.

A court in Egypt has banned transportation tech company Uber and one other riding app Careem after complaints from Taxi drivers.

A former President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy is facing questioning over allegations that he received campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.

Egyptians living abroad have voted in their country's presidential elections expected to take place locally between March 26 and 28.

Officials in Libya have issued arrest warrants for over 200 Libyans and foreigners believed to have been involved in a smuggling syndicate abusing African migrants trying to get to Europe.

Tunisia's public TV channel Wataniya threatened on Monday to stop broadcasting football matches after two of its journalists were wounded during weekend unrest.

Hundreds of women took to the streets in the Tunisian capital on Saturday to demand equal inheritance rights as men, a subject often seen as taboo in the Arab world.

Egypt’s parliament has approved a government bill to introduce the death penalty for terrorist, state television reported on Wednesday. 

Saudi Arabia and Egypt set up a $10 billion joint fund on Sunday to develop a planned mega-city, committing more than 1,000 square kilometres in the south Sinai, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo.

At least 10 people were killed and 15 others were injured in a train crash on Wednesday in Egypt’s northern province of Beheira, the health ministry said.