A consortium including Saudi Addis Holding Company has won a “services agreement” to operate and raise the productivity of two aging oil fields in Egypt, Addis announced on Wednesday.

The Algerian Ministry of Transport announced on Tuesday, December 12, the resumption of flights to both Syria and Lebanon.

“The speed at which hunger has risen over the past year is alarming. More and more people are struggling to eat a basic meal a day, and unless things change there is a very real risk they won’t even be able to do that,” said Eddie Rowe, WFP Country Director in Sudan.

Egypt concluded on Tuesday the three-day voting in the presidential election as the vote-counting process started immediately, according to the National Election Authority (NEA).

Libya and Tunisia have reached comprehensive and permanent solutions on the issues plaguing the joint border crossings, Libyan Interior Minister of the Government of National Unity Emad Al-Trabelsi, said on Tuesday, affirming that the Ras Ajdir point is now fully under the state’s control.

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali al-Sadiq has revealed that Chad has requested an apology from Sudan over accusations that it supported the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in their ongoing conflict with the Sudanese army. But he maintained that his government would not apologize.

Haroun Medikhar, advisor to the leader of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces confirms that Sudan’s army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, changed his mind about meeting with the leader of Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo

Saudi cartoonist, Fahad Al-Jubairi, sparked widespread controversy on social media, after he drew a cartoon in which he accused the Palestinian factions of stealing humanitarian aid.

The Egyptian Minister of Culture, Nevine Al-Kilani, opened the plastic art exhibition “Egypt has the world”, which is held in cooperation between the General Authority for Culture Palaces, headed by Amr Al-Bassiouni, and the plastic arts sector, headed by Dr. Walid Qanoush, and in the presence of a group of ambassadors of a number of countries.

The Algerian professor of fine arts, Nasr El Din Ben Tayeb, published a French-Arabic arts dictionary in Algeria, which includes more than 3,700 words.

Russia introduced a temporary ban on durum wheat exports until May 31, 2024, with the publication of a government decree on Dec. 11 in an effort to ensure the country’s food security and stabilize prices, Reuters reported.

Somalia has received a much-needed shipment of 25,000 tons of aid from Russia to address the country’s flood crisis.

Among the nations condemning Israel’s war in Gaza, one has stood out — Russia had built a growing friendship with Israel, but that dalliance is over, analysts said, erased by the shifting sands of Middle East geopolitics.

More than 1,000 local, Arab and international publishing houses are displaying their products at the fifth Jeddah Book Fair launched on Thursday by the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission under the slogan “Ports of Culture.”

Egypt’s 2024 presidential elections commenced nationwide on Sunday, marked by a significant voter turnout and queues forming outside polling stations across the country.

The United States vetoed a United Nations resolution Friday backed by almost all other Security Council members and dozens of other nations demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. Supporters called it a terrible day and warned of more civilian deaths and destruction as the war goes into its third month.

Nigerian Victor Osimhen claimed respective African Footballer of the Year honours.

Protestors condemned Western support for Israel which they blamed for a deadly strike on a Gaza hospital on Tuesday.

US State Department has warned Libyan military general Khalifa Haftar against collaborating with Russian President Vladimir Putin to establish a Russian military Legion in Africa.

Al-Saidi: “We have suitable ground to establish this project, which is primarily a peaceful nuclear energy project, and we are opening the door to the Russian authorities today and tomorrow.”