Egypt's electoral commission announced the list of presidential candidates on Thursday. Ahmed Shafiq, the premier appointed by president Hosni Mubarak just before his overthrow last year, was...

A Cairo misdemeanor court dismissed on Thursday a complaint against Egyptian comedy actor Adel Imam and other artists for insulting religion, days after another one sentenced him to jail on the...

The mission will travel by train through Africa to promote the use of renewable energy as a vehicle for growth. The inauguration of the...

An extraordinary summit of heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), opened Thursday in Abidjan to try to defuse the political crisis through which...

300 CEOs from over 40 African countries, 100 bankers and investors and a large number of key African public sector decision makers will gather in Geneva for two days of debate and dialogue....

Minister of Industry, SME and Investment Promotion Mohamed Benmeradi said on Wednesday in Algiers that the French car maker Renault refused to locate its plant in Bellara (Jijel),which has delayed...

Qatar has offered Tunisia a $1 billion low interest loan to bolster its economy, the Tunisian presidential spokesman announced on Wednesday.....

Interim prime minister Cheick Modibo Diarra has formed a new government with a 24 member cabinet giving three military personnel linked to the coup key cabinet positions....

Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) has issued a new law that bans parties that are based on faith , tribe or ethnicity which will not be eligible to take part in the elections in...

The ninth version of the Consolidation of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on the best practices for advertising and marketing communications was launched on Tuesday in Algeria during...

The UN Department of Public Information issued the following statement yesterday.The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations mission in Western Sahara until 30 April 2013....

The establishment of autonomous control and coordination of exports (EACCE) program and the economic competitiveness of Morocco (MEC) of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),...

Divisions have emerged in Morocco's ruling coalition over media guidlines issued by the Minister of Communications and Government Spokesman Mustapha El Khalfi....

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...