A suicide bomber, driving a Toyota station wagon, blew himself up shortly before 8 in the morning on Saturday 3 March inside the territorial headquarters of the National Gendarmerie at Tahaggart,...

Fifteen films are nominated for the Gold Olivier, the highest honor of the 12th Amazigh Cultural Film Festival, scheduled from 24 March to 28 March in Tizi-Ouzou, the organizers said on Wednesday....

Algeria’s biggest opposition party,The Socialist Forces Front (FFS) said on Friday it would take part in a May 10 parliamentary election, ending a 15-year boycott and lending credibility to...

The Arab world is talking about a revolution; not just out on the streets but in films, in newspapers, in songs – using any means necessary to document events, expose the horrors of war and explore...

At the battered terminal of Tripoli’s tiny Mitiga airport, over 150 young men and women jostle to be repatriated home to Nigeria on Libya’s Buraq airlines. This journey to Lagos is one of hundreds...

Security in Africa continues to be influenced by external actors, and countering security threats in east and northwest Africa is the top concern for U.S. Africa Command, General Carter F. Ham told...

More than 100,000 Tunisians are residing illegally in Italy, not counting the 22,000 migrants who obtained the temporary residence permits, says a report on migration presented Thursday at a...

Increased food production and improved water management in the Middle East and North Africa are the focus of a new partnership between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the...

The United States has adopted a soft approach with respect to Algeria, an approach that was highlighted during the visit to Algeria last week by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Stephen...

The University Governance Program of the World Bank and the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), led by Adriana Jaramillo, Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank, examines the main...

Americans working for pro-democracy organizations who have been prevented from leaving Egypt will be allowed to go according to a statement from the attorney general’s office issued on Wednesday....

Following its mission in the Sahel region in December 2011, the UN delegation submitted a report which the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a copy to the President of the Security Council reports...

Saudi Arabia said yesterday it would honor a pledge of $3.75 billion in aid to Egypt after complaints by the Egyptian premier that donor countries were failing to respect their commitments, Arab...

One in five women, is abused at least once in her life reports La Presse de Tunisie.The first national survey on violence against women in Tunisia, conducted in 2010 by Onfp with support from the...

While in North Africa, Secretary of State Clinton met with the local advisory boards for the U.S. – North Africa Partnership for Economic Opportunity (NAPEO) and praised the work being done by...

Algeria needs to rethink the "logic of functioning and development" of its industry to meet the challenges imposed by the current international economic situation, the Minister of Industry, Small...

A member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party has been elected speaker of Egypt’s upper house of parliament. The move came...

Long one of the best performing segments in the Kingdom’s economy, Morocco’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector is continuing its rapid expansion but with a renewed focus, with...

Algeria has been plagued for months by the withering criticism of members of the National Transitional Council, in power in Libya due to the hosting of Gaddafi family members....