The food crisis in the Sahel and West Africa, could extend to 23 million more people without immediate help, warned the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC ) on...

The French Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Henri Raincourt, said on Monday on Radio France International (RFI) that a massacre of 82 Malian soldiers took place on January 24...

The first project of The Journalism Foundation, which was launched in December last year by former Independent editor Simon Kelner, gets under way today (13 February) in Tunisia ....

The cultural scene has "To help improve the arts and better present the experience on the subject, here is our first issue of the journal" Founoun Hiraf wa "(Arts and Crafts), a new creation that...

In an article on the Arab Spring economies The Economist reflects on the small traders of North Africa as an Egyptian fruit seller explains how he cannnot make ends meet, credit is hard to come by...

The leaders of the Arab Mahreb agreed to hold a summit in the Maghreb during the year, President Mohamed Marzouki announced Sunday evening in Algiers, APS reports....

The exhibition at Leighton House of the paintings of Marrakech by Sir Winston Churchill and Hassan EL Glaoui has been a great success. North Africa United talked to Hassan El Glaoui's daugher...

President of Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika called on Thursday evening politicians, unions and civil society to work together to mobilize voters ahead of parliamentary elections May 10, 2012....

In its Africa Report no 92 on the 31 March 2005 the International Crisis Group (ICG) asked the question "Islamist terrorism in the Sahel: Fact or Fiction?" and noted that the Pan Saharan...

The visit of brotherhood and work that is being undertaken Tunisian President Mohamed Marzouki, Morocco "augurs a promising future for the Maghreb Union," The Minister for Foreign Affairs and...

The declarations by Presidentf Marzouki on reviving the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) concerning a possible mediation between Algeria and Morocco seem to have attracted some gnashing of teeth in Algiers...

Three ferries sailing from Tangier were seized on 6 January due to the debts of their company.240 Moroccan seamen, including some women,are stranded on the car-ferry they can not leave,or they risk...

French carmaker Renault unveiled its giant plant in Tangiers on Thursday with an initial production capacity of 170,000 vehicles per year, it is a global leader in the automotive industry, firmly...

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, said that northern Mali, had been prey since January to fighting between Tuareg rebels and military and is "an area left free for terrorism", in an...

Experts from 10 countries of the western basin of the Mediterranean have adopted a series of measures for better control of the price volatility of agricultural and food products, and focused on...

total of 2,593 micro-projects were funded in 2011 in the wilaya of Tamanrasset through the National Management Agency for Microcredit (ANGEM), local officials of this organization said to El...

A Conference will be held on Saturday 11 February at St Anthony's College Oxford on the reforms initiated in the Maghreb countries in the wake of the Arab Spring ....

Gunmen have killed seven Libyan refugees at a camp in a Tripoli suburb, residents and hospital sources said.The attackers came to the gate of the makeshift settlement in a disused naval academy in...

The Minister of Energy and Mines Minister Youcef Yousfi, invited British companies to become more involved in investment and partnership in the energy sector in Algeria, said a ministry statement...