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Jul 13, 2015

Top News: US Wants Drones to Combat Islamic State in Libya; US Confirms Tunisia’s “non-NATO ally” Status

By MENASource

The United States is in talks with North African countries about positioning drones at a base on their soil to ramp up surveillance of the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) in Libya. It would be the most significant expansion of the campaign against the extremist group in the region.

MENASource

Jul 13, 2015

Top News: One killed, Ten Injured in Car Bomb Blast at Italian Consulate in Cairo

By EgyptSource

A powerful blast left at least one dead in front of the Italian Consulate in downtown Cairo Saturday, the second car bomb attack in the Egyptian capital in less than a fortnight.

MENASource

Jul 13, 2015

EconSource: Tunisia Sees Growth at 1 Percent This Year

By EconSource

Tunisia’s economic growth is expected to slow to about 1 percent this year, compared with 2.3 percent in 2014, Finance Minister Slim Chaker told Reuters.

MENASource

Jul 10, 2015

Top News: Sisi Approves New Parliamentary Election Law

By EgyptSource

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ratified amendments to an election law regulating electoral constituencies, paving the way for setting a date for long-delayed parliamentary elections, according to state news agency MENA.

MENASource

Jul 10, 2015

Egypt’s New Anti-Terror Law: An In-Depth Reading

By Sonia Farid

The assassination of Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat—the first attempt on a senior official’s life since a bombing targeted the Interior Minister in 2013—came as a shock. With the attack taking place in highly secured area in Cairo —the Military Academy neighborhood—the threat suddenly felt much closer to home for many. One of the government’s first […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 10, 2015

Top News: Humanitarian Pause Reached in Yemen

By MENASource

The United Nations has announced an “unconditional humanitarian pause” in the Yemen conflict starting at midnight local time Friday and is seeking commitments from all parties to stop all violence.

MENASource

Jul 10, 2015

EconSource: IMF Further Cuts Saudi Growth Projections

By EconSource

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday further cut its growth projections for Saudi Arabia’s oil dependent economy despite a rebound in crude oil prices.

MENASource

Jul 10, 2015

A Look at the 2014 State Department Human Rights Report on Egypt

By Amy Hawthorne and Elissa Miller

Four months after the congressionally mandated due date, the US State Department finally released its 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.  The report on Egypt paints a disturbing picture of the human rights crisis afflicting the country since the military ousted former president Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood on July 3, 2013, following […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 9, 2015

Top News: UN Says More Than Four Million Refugees Have Now Fled Syria

By MENASource

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported on Thursday that more than four million Syrians have fled abroad since the civil war began in 2011 and an additional 7.6 million people have been displaced from their homes within Syria.

MENASource

Jul 9, 2015

Top News: Egypt to Buy Border Surveillance System from Pentagon for $100 Million

By EgyptSource

Egyptian officials want to buy high-tech American border surveillance equipment, the Pentagon said Wednesday, citing Cairo’s desire to better monitor its borders with Libya specifically and other countries, as well.