coronavirus (COVID-19)

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday began discussing Egypt’s request for a new loan to counter the spread of…

CAIRO (Reuters) — Yemen’s emergency coronavirus committee declared Aden, the seat to Yemen’s internationally recognized government, an infested city early…

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Living in a slum built precariously on the banks of a sewage-tainted river in Lebanon, Faiqqa…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia announced Monday it was tripling taxes on basic goods, raising them to…

The Commercial International Bank (CIB) on Sunday donated seven million dollars to support Egypt’s efforts against the coronavirus, particularly in…

Egypt’s General Syndicate of Nursing announced the death of the fourth nurse to fall victim to COVID-19 in Egypt. The…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The coronavirus could “smolder” in Africa for years and take a high death toll across the continent,…

China said Friday it supports a World Health Organization-led review into the global response to the coronavirus outbreak, but only…

CAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — It is a Friday morning in Egypt’s City of the Dead, the day of the…

BEIRUT (Reuters) — One of the Arab world’s oldest universities faces its worst crisis since its foundation, with huge losses,…