One hundred days after jailed British-Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah should have been freed – and as his mother continues ...

Abdel Fattah's 66-year-old mother, Laila Soueif, has been waiting for news outside Wadi al-Natroun prison, in the desert north-west of Cairo, every day since he escalated his hunger strike.

That September, Abdel Fattah, Mohammed al-Baqer and Mohammed Ibrahim were among more than 2,000 people reportedly detained by security forces in response to protests against government corruption ...

Sudan’s leader said Sunday that "colonial powers" are fueling conflicts in Africa. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, made the remarks during his meeting with ...