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Video claims Nigeria sect holds 7 French hostages

A video posted online Monday apparently shows seven French hostages kidnapped from northern Cameroon, with a masked militant claiming the radical Islamic group Boko Haram from neighboring Nigeria...

The holding ONA injects $ 900 million to boost Morocco's foreign exchange reserves

Casablanca: The amount corresponds to sales of products by the holding of Central Laitiere (Dairy) and BIMO buscuits respectively French and American operators....

Algiers Casbah: 30% of the buildings in a state of "advanced deterioration", one in six have disappeared

The Casbah has 554 buildings which are now in an advanced state of degradation including 188 in a state of "extreme degradation" which constitute a threat to their occupants, says a report by the...

L’Afrique fait son cinéma à Ouagadougou, le Fespaco démarre en musique

Ouagadougou - Un grand spectacle a donné samedi à Ouagadougou le coup d’envoi du Fespaco, incontournable festival du cinéma d’Afrique, qui pour sa 23e édition est dédié aux femmes puisque tous les...

Motorbikes in Marrakech's Medina

One of the great attractions of Marrakech is its ancient medina where tourists and Moroccans alike can enjoy wandering the narrow streets marvelling at the work of renowned artisans, jewellry,...

Government Project to Boost Morocco's Fishing Industry

The fishing industry in Morocco is considered the largest in Africa. It's the country's leading foreign exchange earner, accounting for over half of its agricultural exports. But despite being an...

Harlem Shake SweepsTunis as Education Minister Launches Investigation

Tunisian Minister of Education Abdeltif Abid has launched an investigation into a “Harlem Shake” video that was performed and filmed on Saturday “ in a Tunisian high school.The minister threatened...

Benkirane gives a positive assessment of his action

Abdelilah Benkirane said on Sunday his government's action is positive, and in agreement with King Mohammed VI, adding that he would leave office if this was not the case....

Democracy Tastes Bitter as Poverty Bites

On a recent Friday, coppersmith Alaa Moussa parked himself in the same spot where two years earlier he had stood defiantly with a handwritten banner addressed to then president Hosni Mubarak. His...

Malian Refugees Wanting to Return Home Face Difficult Choices

When northern Malian refugees fled their country for Niger in 2012, they expected they would be able to return home shortly afterwards. But despite the armed intervention by the French army in the...

Sonatrach: Exploration budget to increase threefold

National hydrocarbon company Sonatrach plans to increase threefold the exploration budget to boost national energy potential, the group’s CEO Abdelhamid Zerguine said on Sunday....

Mohamed Ghamizi: The museum is very little taught in Morocco

The museum is very little taught in Morocco, both at secondary and university cycles and a need arises in the training of young people, said the director of the Natural History Museum of Marrakech,...

U.S. Opens Niger Drone Base, Building Africa Presence - NYT

President Obama announced on Friday that 100 American troops had been sent to Niger in West Africa to help set up a new base from which unarmed Predator aircraft would conduct surveillance in the...

President Bouteflika refuses to ignore the scandals of the management of Sonatrach

President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika, said on Saturday that he could not "ignore" the scandals affecting the management of the national hydrocarbons company Sonatrach, while reiterating...

Ali Larayedh: The next Tunisian government will be for all Tunisians

Tunis - Consultations will be launched shortly with the different political parties in anticipation of the formation of the new government to be "that of all Tunisians", said Ali Larayedh charged...

Morocco:Continuing tourism investment

Morocco saw steady progress last year under its ambitious plan to help it gain entry to the top 20 tourism destinations worldwide, although it has had to struggle with the fallout from regional...

Mali: 13 Chadian soldiers killed and 65 jihadists in the Ifoghas mountains,

Thirteen Chadian soldiers were killed on 22 February in northern Mali in the Tessalit region, not far from the Algerian border. During the same operation about 65 jihadists were killed, according...

1,400 U.S. Marines in Agadir in April for Exercise African Lion.

1,400 U.S. Marines and 900 Moroccan soldiers will meet in April on the southern shores of the Atlantic for the joint training exercise African Lion that is part of the Pentagon program in North...

Five killed in Islamist car bomb attacks in north Mali

Five people were killed in a remote Malian town on Friday in car bomb attacks by Islamists on Tuareg MNLA rebels with close links to French forces, a spokesman for the Tuareg fighters said....

Morocco's Managem eyes annual gold output of 12 t in Sudan - Suna

KHARTOUM - Moroccan mining firm Managem expects annual gold production of 12 t at a mine in Sudan it launched on Thursday, Sudanese state news agency Suna said....