Increasing numbers of Malian women are being raped by Tuareg rebels and armed groups that have swept across the north of Mali since the beginning of year, expelling all government troops from the...

Moroccan Minister of Education Mohamed El-Ouafa called Monday in Algiers for "more" rapprochement between Algeria and Morocco to make the Arab Maghreb region a "stable" region in political, economic...

An analysis by David Lewis of Reuters points out that in a matter of weeks Mali has gone from being a democratic state to a partitioned and fractured territory with the MNLA in the North...

Minister of Trade Mustapha Benbada underlined on Monday the necessity for the countries crossed by the 9,000km-Trans-Saharan road to adopt a comprehensive policy that would help make the...

A new initiative to promote Moroccan contemporary art in the key London market with its golbal connections has been born with the creation by the UK based Moroccan Fine Art of its website which is an...

Morocco will be at the 65th Edition of the International film festival in Cannes with the new film ”Les chevaux de Dieu” (The horses of God) by director Nabil Ayouch. The film will compete in the...

Linda Pappas Funsch is Adjunct Professor of Middle East Studies at Frederick Community College, Maryland USA. She has lived in in several countries throughout the region and traveled widely. She...

The Al Qaeda offshoot that claimed the abduction in the Malian city of Gao of the Algerian consul and six of his aides is willing to release them, one of the group's members said Monday....

Already boasting an incredibly close bilateral relationship, export volumes between the EU and Morocco look to grow even further as continuing liberalisation – in the guise of a pair of new trade...

Mohamed Shoeb, The head of the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company has said it has terminated its contract to ship gas to Israel because of violations of contractual obligations, a decision Israel...

Worldwide, women are largely responsible for managing family budgets, controlling 65 percent of global spending. But, women’s needs are often ignored when it comes to government budgeting, delegates...

A government plan to reform Morocco’s dilapidated justice system, the details of which are still a mystery to the general public, has become the subject of much scepticism, especially from justice...

Algeria cancelled a market arms deals with major U.S. corporations worth $ 3 billion in the second half of 2011, due to U.S. restrictions including halving the list of purchases and increased...

Support of 45 million euros from the European Union (EU) in favor of National Mining Company of Mauritania (SNIM) allowed the rehabilitation of the ore port of Nouadhibou (465 km north of...

Southwest Tunisia has some of the world's richest phosphate deposits, but a recent series of violent protests by jobless residents highlights the region's desperate unemployment problem....

Ambition, tyranny and violence - the key ingredients of William Shakespeare's bloody tragedy Macbeth. Though some 400 years old, the play is thoroughly modern to the film and theatre director Lotfi...

The festivities marking the end of the event "Tlemcen, capital of the Islamic culture 2011" stared Saturday evening in Tlemcen, by a a highly colourful show, offered by the national ballet....

Mali’s Red Cross shipped five tonnes of food and medicines to Timbuktu, in the country’s northwest, occupied by armed groups and threatened by a humanitarian crisis, a Malian official said on...

Since the coming to power of islamist governing parties in North Africa one of the most sensitive subjects is the possible affect on education and the fear that islamic sharia might be introduced...