The Anaheim City Council lent its full support to a legislative effort to properly categorize Middle Eastern and North African people when government agencies collect demographic data. Introduced by ...

This year’s delegation of Colorado legislators now has two people who fall into the ethnic group MENASA, which stands for Middle Eastern, North African and South Asian; Iman Jodeh, a state senator who ...

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claim they've seized the Sudanese army's last base in El Fasher, Darfur — trapping ...

As of 2020, the Middle East-North Africa region – the birthplace of Judaism, Christianity and Islam – is home to 440 million people, up 24% since 2010. Muslims make up the vast majority of the ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle migration — have ramped up expulsions of sub-Saharan Africans. By Elian ...

The Director-General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Amy Pope, said that Libya remains a dangerous ...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is entering a period of profound transformation, driven by three powerful megatrends: demographic, climate, and technological change. In MENA, their ...

In 2025, scientists achieved a remarkable breakthrough by sequencing the complete genome of an ancient Egyptian male whose remains were discovered at Nuwayrat, a site located about 170 miles south of ...

SWANA seeks to pull together the rich and incredible history, art, and culture of a region that has historically had labels (such as "Middle East") applied that frame other parts of the world in ...

Gen Z-led protests in two diverse African countries highlight frustration over years of poor governance. Fueled by social ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco — Flocks of sheep once quilted Morocco’s mountain pastures, stretched across Algeria’s vast plateaus and grazed along Tunisia’s green coastline. But the cascading effects of ...