FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today warned of a major funding gap for activities planned by FAO in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa....

Less than half of Algeria's registered voters turned out for parliamentary elections on Thursday, for a contest billed by authorities as the freest in decades....

Voter turnout in parliamentary elections has reached 44.38% nationally, the Minister of Interior and Local Government, Mr. Daho Ould Kablia said on Thursday in Algiers. ....

About 4,000 people are still being held in militia detention centers in Libya, often in secret and many are tortured, a UN envoy said Thursday....

Libya is nearing a key moment in its democratic transition with upcoming elections, the United Nations envoy for the North African country said today, while adding that the polls are just one part of...

Sceptical Algerians abstained in large numbers from a parliamentary election on Thursday which the country’s ruling elite hoped would help them claw back credibility after Arab Spring revolts left...

Moroccan Head of Government, Abdelilah Benkirane, welcomed the results achieved in the telecommunications sector, which contributes to up to 4% of the GDP, and the significant increase in the...

Growing disarray on the streets and worsening political in-fighting are threatening to condemn post-revolutionary Arab states to a meagre economic harvest says the Economist Intellegence Unit (EIU)...

Who needs religious reform? To quote the American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson from Self-reliance: “Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist”....

Voting began across Algeria Thursday in the country's first polls since the Arab Spring swept the region, with the ruling party, its Islamist allies and the boycott camp all hoping to claim...

In Algeria's proud Kabylie region, a traditional opposition stronghold, few entertain any hope that Thursday's polls can spur a democratic uprising, and voters are a rare and discreet breed....

The tendency to resort to the arms which ousted Moamer Kadhafi poses a roadblock to democracy in the new Libya, analysts warn, while recognising the government's growing capacity to defuse crises....

Thousands of Mauritanian opposition activists staged a march and sit-down protest in Nouakchott Wednesday evening, calling for former coup leader President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to step down....

Despite a wealth of parties, low turnout is predicted as many Algerians see the election as a ‘foregone conclusion’ A woman complains about living conditions at her home in a shantytown near...

Algerian radical Islamist party leader Abdallah Djaballah said onTuesday there are signs of a plot to steal this week’s parliamentary elections, but that his party will win if the vote is clean....

President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika said on Tuesday in Setif he is confident that "young Algerians will stand up against the enemies of the country and will face the instigators of Fitna...

An Islamist group that abducted seven Algerian diplomats in Mali has warned Algiers that if it fails to meet its demands within 30 days, the hostages' lives will be in danger....

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) hopes to attract investment of 7.5 billion euros ($9.77 billion) a year into North Africa and Jordan, its president said....

Major changes that have swept both Turkey and its neighbourhood since the Cold War require Washington to forge a "new partnership" with Ankara, according to a new report released Tuesday by the...