Pour bien accompagner l’évolution de la société, le Maroc a entrepris depuis quelques années d’importantes réformes institutionnelles dans différents secteurs. Parmi ceux-ci, la réforme de la gestion...

Dr Moncef Marzouki, President of Tunisia, and Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Ennahda movement in Tunisia, have been voted the joint winners of the Chatham House Prize 2012....

Syria became the first country in the history of the United Nations to be “protected” for an unprecedented third time by double vetoes cast by Russia and China in the Security Council....

A prisoner exchange enabled three European aid workers held hostage to be released on Wednesday in Mali, negotiators have revealed. "It was a...

The first new all-time national temperature record of 2012 belongs to Morocco, thanks to the 121.3°F (49.6°C) temperature measured at Marrakech on July 17, 2012....

China today announced a doubling, to $ 20 billion, of its loans to Africa. This gesture, which reflects the growing commitment of the second world economy towards the continent, aimed at supporting...

ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda received a delegation led by Minister of Justice, H.E. Malick Coulibaly. The delegation presented a letter by which the Government of Mali, as a State Party to the...

Algerian investment projects reported in the first half of 2012 rose by 9%, totaling 4,275 projects worth 410 billion dinars against 3,922 projects in the same period in 2011, described as "the...

Syria’s defence minister and interior minister are among those who were killed after a suicide bomber struck the National Security building in Damascus during a meeting of cabinet ministers and...

A joint statement by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), released on Monday in Tunis, notes that the unemployment rate for...

Morocco's trade with foreign countries amounted to more than 280.25 billion dirhams in late June against 265.45 billion dirhams, year on year, an increase of 5.6% (14, 80 billion dirhams),...

President Moncef Marzouki met with President Francois Hollande yesterday on a three day trip to boost relations which had suffered because of the perceived closeness of the Chirac and Sarkozy...

The Islamist Movement of uniqueness and Jihad in West Africa MUJAO, said they have freed three Western hostages, two Spaniards and one Italian, aid workers abducted 10 months ago by Polisario...

Les immenses et multiples chantiers structurants lancés au Maroc, depuis l’accès du roi Mohammed VI au trône, sont impressionnants. L’éventail en est presque inépuisable. La mise en route de tels...

Mali's interim prime minister Cheick Modibo Diarra on Tuesday presented a roadmap for rescuing his country from a post-coup crisis to the region's lead mediator....

The National Forces Alliance, led by former interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, has won 39 out of the 80 seats reserved for political parties, local media say....

Ahmet Saymadi slumps into a cafe, gives a limp handshake to some friends, and then stops at a computer to do some work. When he finally pauses for a tea break, he pushes a CD across the table,...

When hardcore Islamists linked to al Qaeda recently took over a region of the Sahara desert in northern Mali the size of France, I knew how they could be quickly defeated....

The 16th ordinary summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) ended late on Tuesday night following the momentous decision to elect its first woman as chairman of the...