Egypt has been working for mediating a prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian groups and is exerting more efforts in this regard, an Egyptian official source said Thursday.

The African Union on Tuesday maintained sanctions against Mauritania's junta, in defiance of the pan-African body's chairman Moamer Kadhafi, an official told AFP.

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) criticized the statement of Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Irene Khan, in which she said the Arab League has undermined international law by declaring that the Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir has immunity fr [ … ]

The Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) has backed the Arab Peace Initiative and the efforts to achieve intra-Palestinian reconciliation, in a recommendation addressed to the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) ministers and adopted at its Plenary (March 15-17).

The European Commission Representative, Mr. Christian Berger, today handed over the keys of 36 vans to the Deputy Chief of the Palestinian Civilian Police (“PCP”), Brig. Jehad Al Musaimy, part of an EU grant of equipment to the Palestinian Civilian Police worth a total of €5 million.

Algeria's president mingled with crowds of potential voters as he campaigned Friday for re-election in the restive Kabylie region of Algeria, a hotbed of terrorists and a stronghold of the leftist opposition.