Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signed a $100 million cash transfer agreement with Tunisia as part of the Obama administration’s efforts to support the country through its democratic...

Abdelbaset al -Megrahi died on Sunday. He was a Libyan secret service agent and the sole person convicted of the Pan Am Boeing 747 flight 103 bombing which exploded over the Scottish town of...

Captain Amadou Sanogo has agreed to drop his objections to an extention of the original 40 day mandate following ECOWAS's threat to reimpose sanctions....

David President Obama spoke of an emerging consensus that European countries must focus on jobs and growth.The leaders of France, Germany, the US, the UK, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia met at Camp...

Malnutrition is now affecting 6 million children in Niger and 18 million in the Sahel / Sahara region and a Save The Children spokesman has said that the "tipping point " has now been reached and...

The international community must invest in the economies of the Arab Spring, to foster their transition into prosperous democracies and bolster them against the threats of instability and...

On the eve of the Group of Eight (G8) summit near Washington, President Barack Obama on Friday unveiled a major new initiative aimed at shoring up food security and combating global hunger....

Hundreds of nurses and protestors from other professions gathered on Friday in Chicago to call on world leaders to adopt a Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street transactions as a way to raise hundreds of...

On 19 December 2011 Abdel Aziz Belkhadem, secretary general of the FLN said "all political parties of the Islamist movement would obtain between 35% to 40% of the vote, "or between 135 to 155 seats...

Morocco will launch a tender in the autumn to sell 4G licences in a move that may allow the entry of a fourth operator to the market, a business weekly reported on Friday citing the head of the...

More than 15 months after Egypt's Tahrir Square uprising and four months after free parliamentary polls, many Egyptians say that daily living conditions are worse now than they were in the Mubarak...

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Malian soldiers who overthrew the government on Mar. 22 have neither the right to remain in power nor the strength to deal...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should build durable ties with other key regional partners in the Middle East and North Africa such as Morocco, a report by US think tank Atlantic...

West Africa’s mediator for Mali has begun talks with the Islamist and Tuareg rebel groups who seized the north of the country after a coup in March, officials said on Thursday....

Looking for fresh ways to revitalise Morocco’s tourism sector, the minister of tourism has suggested several alternative measures be taken this year to boost revenues and tourist arrivals....

Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah, in Cannes with an Arab Spring drama, defiantly vowed on Thursday that the Islamists jockeying for power back home would never succeed in stifling art....

The specifications of the 3G and the three operators of mobile telephony "are ready" to launch this technology in Algeria, expected "in the coming weeks," even if the case of Djezzy persists, the...

Morocco said on Thursday it had lost confidence in the U.N. envoy to the contested Western Sahara territory, in the latest in a long series of setbacks in efforts to settle a decades-old dispute...

The rising spectre of terrorism in Syria shows that by clinging to power and refusing to implement meaningful reforms, Arab autocrats in Syria, Bahrain, and elsewhere are indirectly contributing to...