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...

Minister of Interior Daho Ould Kablia said Saturday in Algiers that the passivity in northern Mali against terrorists on its soil was "of concern" for Algeria....

In the developed world the middle class often acts as a catalyst but this seems not to be happening in the Middle East.A poll by research company Booz and Co trys to find out why....

The UN cultural and educational agency UNESCO will celebrate World Book Day throughout the world, spreading the culture of reading and encouraging the protection of intellectual property and author’s...

A delegation of U.S. officials from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and the Commerce and State departments, shown here, met recently with the Tunisian government under the auspices...

US Treasury Secretary Geithner and Tunisian Finance Minister Dimassi Sign Declaration to Work Toward U.S. Loan Guarantee for Tunisia. U.S....

The 10th EU-Morocco Association Council, will take place on Monday in Luxembourg, The Association Agreement expired on in March with the dismantalling of tarrifs....

In a remarkably open article APS remarks that the election campaign is marked by a gloomy atmosphere and bad organization according to the national daily newspapers on Thursday stressed that a...