Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater.They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found...

Cheick Modibo Diarra has been named interim prime minister of Mali as a transitional administration takes shape, to guide the country back to full constitutional government. But despite agreeing to...

A verdict is imminent in the case of Charles Taylor, pictured below, the first former head of state to be judged by an international court since the Nuremberg trials....

Mali has a new interim Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra. The son in law of forme President Mousa Traoré he has had remarkable career as an astrophysist work on Nasa projects after studying in...

The Italian hostage Maria Sandra Mariani freed in Burkino Faso arrived back in Italy at Rome Airport on Wednesday. “Maria Sandra Mariani is...

The UK wishes to strengthen future cooperation with Algeria in particulary in the gas and renewable energy sectors, the British Ambassador in Algiers, Mr. Martyn Roper said on Wednesday ....

The Eurozone crisis and widespread protests against the global financial system present the $1 trillion Islamic the finance industry with a big opportunity to accelerate growth, Hussain Al Qemzi,...

Moroccan authorities should drop charges and release a rapper who has spent three weeks in pretrial detention on charges that he insulted the police in his songs and a video set to his music, Human...

Hundreds of federalism backers who massed in east Libya on Tuesday insisted on the region’s autonomy and challenged the framework for electing a constituent assembly....

The issue resurfaced after a long apnea. This time, it is the Association of the Regions of Morocco (ARM) that opens the hostilities, challenging the government on the progress of the project. In...

Prospects for the global economy are improving slowly but growth is expected to be weak especially in Europe with Unemployment in many developed countries remaining high.World output is projected to...

A memorandum of understanding to strengthen ties of cooperation between Morocco and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in supporting the efforts of socio-economic development in the Kingdom, was...

The kidnapping strongly suggests vengeance: Some 150 Tunisians, and even more, working for an oil company were kidnapped on Monday by armed rebels in the Libyan city of Zawiya near the border, on the...

Anyone who has been lucky enough to visit some parts of what is now the largest country in Africa after the splitting of South Sudan from the North knows that Algeria is a fascinating and diverse...

Algeria will invest $ 30 billion to produce 1,200 MW additional electricity per year by 2020, CEO of Sonelgaz Noureddine Boutarfa said on Monday in Algiers....

The NTC Chairman Mustapha Abdeljalil met with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Monday and signed an agreement for a road map to boost bilateral cooperation and the two issued a joind communique...

The Moroccan Bank Al- Maghrib reported in its latest April review that the number of tourists visiting Morocco fell to 7 per cent at the end of February ....

Foreign Office Ministers Alistair Burt and Henry Bellingham met Moroccan Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs Youssef Amrani on 16 April....

Mali’s putschists and politicians called Sunday for talks with rebels holding the north of the country, as Islamists holding key towns there signaled they were ready to open a dialogue....