Civil conflicts in four African nations helped push some 800,000 people to seek safe haven in foreign countries during 2011, according to the annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner...

Algeria, which normally imports 60% of its cereal needs, could reduce this burden because of the large harvest ever recorded. Algeria, which...

The world's fourth-largest mobile phone producer, ZTE, has entered the Tunisian market, the Chinese telecom giant announced at a press conference on Monday in Tunis....

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the cornerstone of the U.S. trade and economic relationship with sub-Saharan Africa, has seen an impressive growth in trade between the United States...

Gunmen on Monday stormed the Tunisian consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, diplomatic and security sources told AFP, without reporting casualties....

The Supreme Armed Forces Council(SCAF) has awarded itself new legislative and fiscal powers which effectively mean that it has taken control in Egypt. The new president will have no authority over...

Following frequent clashes between militias and tribal factions Libya's National Transititional Council (NTC) has deployed troops in the west of the country in Zintan,Mizdah and Shegayga and declared...

The Presidency of the Republic strongly condemned on Saturday as "irresponsible" the calls for the murder of artists "launched even in the mosques", reminding that "the freedoms of opinion,...

The French Socialist Party won an overall majority in the National Assembly obviating the need for a cooalition with the far Left and to Europe's immense relief Anonis Samaras's pro EU bail out New...

Algeria has made every effort to help refugees in the Sahel region, said Saturday Abdourrahmane Cisse, president of Mali Red Cross. "Algeria had taken the initiative to help destitute population...

Reporters Without Borders strongly deplores the two-year jail sentence that a Marrakech court imposed yesterday on well-known blogger Mohamed Sokrate on trumped-up charges of drug possession and...

As angry demonstrators gathered once again in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to protest what many are calling a “soft coup” by the military, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted that Washington...

It is becoming increasingly uncomfortable to be female or foreign in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, birthplace of the January 2011 Egyptian revolution....

The jobs of 30,000 Moroccan employees are threatened by a French government demand for call centres to be relocated to France and to be staffed by French expatriates....

The newspaper La Temps de Tunisie writes that the Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice did not hide his annoyancewhen he heard a journalist describing the recent troubles in Tunisia as...

In an editorial La Presse de Tunisie gives its reaction to the decision of the government to ban demonstrations in the wake of the serious violence that erupted in Tunisia this week....

The Moroccan government on Wednesday urged the UN to "do justice" on the Sahara issue that has been disputed by Morocco and the Polisario Front , the independence movement backed by Algeria since...

The 2012 Global Peace Index, which rates countries of the most peaceful to more violent in the world, Morocco is ranked 54th out of 158 countries under scrutiny,The ranking is produced annually by...

Algiers is a beautiful city, seen from the sea its white buildings rise up to the wooded areas of Hydra with its villas and the Medina could regain its charm and character after the events of 1992...