Algeria president sets presidential election for Sept 7

Egypt’s annual inflation rate surged to 16.5 percent in May, up from 13.5 percent in April, according to data released by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). 

Ghana said on Thursday it views a Moroccan autonomy plan as the sole basis to settle the Western Sahara dispute within the framework of the UN, aligning itself with a growing number of Western, African and Arab countries that back Rabat's position on the dispute.

Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ministers of both countries said late on Wednesday, after an Egyptian court ruling last week cast uncertainty over its future.