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Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he was prepared to step down if allowed a dignified departure.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah said on Friday he was ready to cede power, the third Arab ruler who may be forced out by popular protests.
Embattled Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Friday he was ready to cede power to prevent more bloodshed, but only to "safe hands".
Top generals, ambassadors and some tribes threw their support behind Yemen’s anti-government protesters on Monday.
A security clampdown in the Riyadh kept a lid on a planned day of rage, while police in Kuwait and Bahrain appeared to deflate demonstrators’ zeal.
Bahraini troops and armoured vehicles on Saturday rolled out of a Manama square that had been a base for anti-government protesters.
Bahrain’s king has offered a national dialogue "with all parties" in a conciliatory move to resolve a crisis that has killed six people.
Bahraini security forces shot at protesters near Pearl Square on Friday and wounded at least 23, a former Shi’ite lawmaker said.
Several thousand Shi’ites turned out in Bahrain on Friday to bury three of those killed in a crackdown ordered by the state’s Sunni ruling family.
Police in the Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain attacked demonstrators camped out in the capital on Thursday, killing three.
Thousands of Shi’ite demonstrators, inspired by popular revolts that toppled rulers in Tunisia and Egypt, gathered in Bahrain’s capital on Wednesday.
Disputes between Gulf Arab states and the maker of the Blackberry over access to encrypted communications highlight nervousness over security threats.
Egypt is considering culling hundreds of thousands of pigs as a precautionary measure as swine flu nears the borders of the country.
An African Union summit on Tuesday tried to overcome divisions on how to deal with the re-election of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.
Zambia’s President Levy Mwanawasa was rushed to hospital in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday after a health emergency.
African states have been urged unite to reduce the impact of soaring food prices that have hit their citizens harder than the rest of the world.
Burned and looted huts stretch as far as the eye can see in Sudan’s oil-rich town of Abyei, now empty of civilians, the United States special envoy to Sudan, Richard Williamson,…
An Egyptian military court has delayed by a month a verdict on 40 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood who face charges of belonging to a banned group, Brotherhood…
An Egyptian court granted Baháí’s the right to obtain government identity papers on Tuesday, so long as they omit their faith, in an important ruling for members of unrecognised…
Egypt put the mummy of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun on display in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings on Sunday, giving visitors their first chance to see the face of a ruler who…
