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Red Sea

Locusts are seen in the Menabe region of western Madagascar, March 29, 2013. (Reuters)

Locust outbreak threatens Egypt, Saudi Arabia: UN

Egypt

Egypt's Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal (C) chairs a parliament plenary session to deliberate the proposed constitutional amendments to increase office term durations for the country's president from four to six years, in the capital Cairo on February 14, 2019. (AFP)

Egypt parliament approves extending presidential terms

Youth

Young Houthi militants sit on the side of a road in Sana’a. (Reuters)

It’s been eight years since Yemen’s ‘youth revolution’. So what are we celebrating?

Tariq Karman-44305

Mosque

A general view of al-Fattah al-Aleem Mosque in the New Administrative Capital (NAC), 45km east of Cairo. (Reuters)

Factoring in security, economics in building mosques in Egypt

Mohammed Abdul Hadi-9424

Palestine

Head of the Hamas Politburo Ismail Hanieyh speaks in Gaza City, February 1. (Mahmoud Naser)

Scepticism high in Cairo after Palestinian factions’ call for unity

Egypt

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks at the parliament meeting hall in Cairo, last June. (AFP)

Rifts emerge over Egyptian MPs move to extend presidential terms

Hassan Abdel Zaher

Great Mosque

A view of the destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul. (AFP)

Restoration of al-Nuri mosque sends a message

Egypt

A mother looks at her daughter’s work at the Il Penello Ceramic cafe in Heliopolis in northern Cairo. (Il Penello Ceramic)

The paintbrush is replacing the shisha in Egypt’s cafes

Mohammed Abdul Hadi-9424

Egypt

Labourers set up and fix a steel mesh at the site of a new twin-tube road tunnel under construction along the Suez Canal in Ismailia. (AFP)

Egypt hopes Suez Canal tunnels will jump-start Sinai’s development