Fitch Ratings says in a new report that the divergence in rating dynamics between Morocco (BBB-/Stable) and Tunisia (BB-/Negative) since the start of the Arab Spring in early 2011 reflects different...

Tunis - Tunisia on Wednesday arrested eight Islamists arriving from its troubled neighbour Libya and said they were planning attacks in Tunisia....

Rabat - Morocco's consumer price inflation was 0.4 percent year-on-year in April, the same as in March and February, the High Planning Authority said on Wednesday....

Rabat - Official from Morocco's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Ahmed Al-Tazi on Wednesday met with Qatar's ambassador to Morocco, Abdullah Bin Falah Abdullah A-Dosari, Qatar News Agency...

Algiers - Algeria said Wednesday it will re-open its border with Libya and embassy there as soon as the security crisis in the neighbouring country is over, Xinhua news agency reported....

Algiers, Algeria - Algeria's Cabinet has announced it will move forward with the exploitation of the country's large shale gas reserves. The...

Rabat - Minister of national education and vocational training, Rachid Belmokhtar, and U.S. ambassador in Rabat, Dwight L.Bush S., welcomed Wednesday in Rabat "the positive results" of "ITQAN"...

Tifelt - Five people were killed and 37 others injured, including five seriously, on Wednesday in a road accident near Tiflet (Province of Khemisset), said local authorities. The accident occurred...

Rabat - Morocco should ensure the safety of water supply due to climate variability, notably through setting up a national program for a more efficient use of water in all sectors, said a the report...

Rabat - The reform of the pension systems, in the medium and long term, requires the establishment of a public/private mechanism which leads into a single plan, supported by required and other...

Rabat, Morocco - There's a moment in the Moroccan film "Horses of God" when the protagonist and a friend successfully repair an old moped and cruise around the dusty alleys of the desperately poor...

New Delhi - Nadia Kaabi-Linke grew up in Tunisia and Ukraine, countries caught in political upheavals, but the artist has not expressed the complexity of these events through her craft. What, in...

Tunis - Tunisia will raise petrol prices by 6.3 percent in next few days to cut subsidies fuel and reduce the worsening budget deficit, the finance minster said on thursady. The finance minister...

Geneva - Morocco and Mexico moved a step ahead towards the global program of cooperation and expertize sharing in terms of health reform, capacity-building and access to health care....

Laayoune - A Sahrawi family from the Tindouf camps, composed of six members, currently in Morocco as part of the exchange of family visits between the camps and the Moroccan southern provinces,...

Dublin, Ireland - Circle Oil, an Irish exploration company with a focus on the Middle East, said Monday it started its third drilling campaign in Morocco....

Tunisia has formed a commission to investigate the abuses and compensate the victims of decades of dictatorship. Three years after the ouster...

Benghazi/Tripoli, Libya - The commander of Libyan army special forces said on Monday he had allied with renegade general Khalifa Haftar in his campaign against militant Islamists, highlighting the...

Algiers - The Algerian state energy firm Sonatrach has ordered its workers back from Libya over security concerns in the neighboring country, a source at the company said on Monday....