The Supreme Court has cleared Ahmed Shafik to take part in the presidential run off .It has also ruled that the elections for the Lower House were unconstitutional and a third of the seats were...

The 7th National Aissaoua Cultural Festival opened on Wednesday night at the house of culture in Mila with a festive atmosphere, also marked by the mystical aura unique to this ancestral heritage....

I love the poster of the opening night last Wednesday in Rabat, the European Jazz Ensemble whose musicians are five different nationalities, in addition to the quintet Greek Kostas Theodorou...

The curfew in Tunis and other areas has been eased from 10pm to 4 am,announced the ministries of Interior and Defence in a statement. They assures citizens and tourists that the curfew is a temporary...

Former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was sentenced yesterday in absentia to 20 years in prison for inciting disorder, murder and looting in Tunisian territory during the revolution,...

The Moroccan government on Wednesday urged the UN to him "do justice" to the Sahara issue. Morocco opposes the Polisario Front since 1975, the independence movement backed by Algeria....

Moody's Investors Service downgraded Spain's government bond rating to Baa3 from A3 yesterday, and has also placed it on review for possible further downgrade. Moody's expects to conclude the review...

A new World Bank project will help increase employment in Morocco by matching vocational skills and higher education systems with the needs of the labor market. A second project will strengthen the...

Women’s rights activists will forever remember the 10 May 2012 Algerian legislative elections as a turning point. That day, 147 women, out of 462 candidates, were elected to the National People's...

Walking down the street or going from house to house in my native Tunis reminds me how much Tunisians love to talk. Before the revolution, we talked about football. Since January 2011, we have been...

Casablanca Finance City, a financial centre designed to act as a catalyst for growth in north and west Africa, is attracting growing interest from companies from around the world. Amongst those...

Despite weakening global demand for exports, Morocco’s posphate mining sector has seen a promising first half to 2012, buoyed by gradually rising commodities prices....

Around 600 miners employed by Kinross, Canada's third largest gold miner, who had walked off the job on Monday 4th June returned to work on Saturday 9th June....

Since the end of the Libyan revolution weapons have continued to flood out of Libya, looted from depots and sold on the black market. Difficult to track and impossible to quantify, they move in many...

The World bank has warned developing countries that they can expect a prolonged period of volatility in world markets. Developing countries...

The United States reaffirmed its strong commitment to the people of Tunisia and their democratic transition by signing a sovereign loan guarantee agreement with the Tunisian government....

Tunisia has declared an overnight curfew in 8 administrative regions including the capital Tunis following serious rioting. Interior Minister Ali Larayedh said 153 people had been arrested and that...

Tuareg and Islamist rebel groups which seized control of northern Mali in March are trying to find common ground for the joint administration of the territory. Residents of the region fear that...

The first issue of the journal of archaeological studies devoted to North-African heritage has just been published by the Algerian Association for the Protection and Promotion of Archaeological...