Libya’s interim interior minister, Fawzi Abdel-Ali ,returned to work Tuesday, two days after he resigned following attacks by hardliners on Sufi Muslim shrines as police watched, prompting harsh...

British Petroleum has announced plans to start its $2 billion deep-sea drilling program next year, under a joint exploration and production (E&P) agreement with the National Oil Corporation, Libya...

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi announced that he would not consider raising taxes or devaluing the currency in order to promote economic recovery, relying instead on investment, tourism, and...

Marrakech : Le défunt avait 44 ans et vivait et travaillait à la cité ocre en tant que gérant de restaurant. A 15h00 de l’après midi du Lundi 27 août, une femme de ménage, en rentrant au domicile de...

UK visitors to Tunisia more than doubled last month, with a 50.7% increase on July 2011. The resilient country saw a 7.2% increase on the country’s record-breaking visitors figures of July 2010...

Do political negotiations conducted by the Algerian authorities with the terrorist groups of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Mali have a relationship with the evolution of the situation of...

Algeria's jobless rate for 2011 was 10 per cent, the same as the previous year, even though unemployment among graduates dropped significantly, the National Office of Statistics (ONS) announced on...

Marrakech : Le bureau du procureur du Roi à Marrakech a ordonné que soit écoutée par la police judiciaire, une femme accusée d’avoir épousé deux hommes en même temps. Des sources médiatiques locales...

An Algerian hostage held by an Islamist militant group in lawless northern Mali has called on his country to save his life, according to a video seen by AFP on Sunday. An Algerian hostage held by...

UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Saturday told Morocco's monarch he would not give in to demands to change his peace envoy on the Western Sahara conflict, diplomats said....

Kidnapping of diplomats, attack Tamanrasset, Mujao (Movement for the uniqueness and jihad in West Africa present in northern Mali) has been the bane of Algeria forsometime. The Islamist group is...

Islamist fundamentalists destroyed the mausoleum of a Muslim saint in Tripoli with shovels and desecrated his grave in the aftermath of the destruction in the west of Libya's largest mausoleum of...

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Friday attacked his Islamist allies in the ruling coalition, accusing them of seeking to monopolise power, in a letter read at the opening of his Congress for...

Reporters Without Borders condemns an attack by police officers on Agence France-Presse correspondent Omar Brouksy as he was covering a demonstration by various groups and NGOs outside parliament...

 Marrakech : Les services de la police judiciaire ont effectué, mercredi, une descente à un appartement au quartier Hivernage à Marrakech, où ils y ont surpris en petites tenues, des...

The new national unity government of Mali held its first cabinet meeting on 23 August. Two major tasks for the government are the organization of free and transparent elections, but also that the...

The Minister of Agriculture, Aziz Akhnouch responded strongly to rumours circulating recently in Morocco about a wheat shortage, refuting any suggestion of a bread crisis in the kingdom....

Sidi Boussaid was the focus of attention of a cabinet meeting chaired by Hamadi Jebali to seek ways of restoring public services, jobs and investment to the troubled region around Sidi Bouzid....

Libyan government forces have confiscated 100 tanks and almost 30 rocket launchers from a militia loyal to former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and interior ministry spokesman said....