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Egyptian film "El Khouroudj li nahar" wins Golden Lion award at 6th Arab Film Festival of Oran

The film "El Khouroudj li nahar" (coming forth by day), by Egyptian Hala Lotfy won the "Wihr d’or" (Golden Lion) at the 6th Arab Film Festival in Oran (FOFA), which came to a close Saturday evening,...

Mali: Ansar Dine destroy more mausoleums in Timbuktu

Ansar Dine have destroyed more mausoleums in Timbuktu , promising to annihilate all of them.Further amputations were earlier carried out in Gao reported Jeune Afrique and these incidents come after...

Algeria, a country so rich its people so poor!

Algeria is certainly a very rich country, an economic powerhouse .. a truth that leaders are trying to hide from Algerians, but events such as the recent visit to Hollande in Algeria, shows this...

Egypt’s referendum: Going the wrong way – The Economist

Muhammad Morsi must accommodate the secular opposition; if necessary, the West should push him ,says The Economist. It looks likely that the...

Mali :Rival Tuareg rebels agree to suspend fighting

The armed group Ansar Dine and the National Movement of Liberation of Azawad (MNLA, Tuareg rebels) called, on Friday in Algiers, for a settlement, through dialogue, of the crisis shaking their...

Francois Hollande: Al-Qaeda linked group behind Nigeria kidnap

President Hollande told Europe 1 radio in France that the kidnappers of the French engineer were "probably linked to AQIM [Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb] or the groups which are today in Mali"....

Al Qaeda linked suspects arrested in Tunisia and training camp disbanded.

Minister of the interior Ali Laarayedh announced on Friday that The seven people arrested following the Kasserine incidents are affiliated with a terrorist group still under formation called the...

Egyptian Islamists and opponents clash ahead of referendum vote

Islamists supporting Mohammed Morsi clashed with secular opponents in Alexandria after Friday prayers with the ministry of interior reporting 77 inured according to Al Jazeera. Islamists wielded...

Obama nominates John Kerry as next Secretary of State

President Barack Obama on Friday nominated John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, calling the veteran U.S. senator the "perfect choice" for America's top diplomat as he began...

PM Jebali legislative elections late June and presidential elections early September 2013.

Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali suggested,on Thursday, that the legislative elections be held by late June, or early July, and that the first round of the presidential elections take place by early...

Tunisia receives first tranche of EIB loan

Mr Philippe de Fontaine Vive, Vice-President of the EIB (European Investment Bank), conducted yesterday in Tunis, the signing of seven loan agreements for a total value of 170 million euros (340...

Ansar Dine trying to marginalize AQIM

While the Security Council has given the green light for the deployment of an international force in Mali, Iyad Ag Ghali leader of Ansar Dine is trying to undermine the influence of his former AQIM...

France ‘supports negotiated and mutually acceptable settlement’ of Sahara issue

France “supports a negotiated and mutually acceptable settlement” of Sahara issue, “in accordance with the resolutions and parameters clearly outlined by the UN Security Council,” said French...

Le cadavre ensanglanté d’un français découvert à son domicile à Marrakech

Marrakech : La victime était accusée de pédophile par ses voisins. Un résident français de 62 ans a été découvert mort baignant dans son sang, à la chambre à coucher de son petit Riad à la vieille...

Marching Toward a Third Uprising?

While the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip hasn’t been so quiet for the past two decades, it’s now the turn of the occupied West Bank to show signs of eruption....

UN Security Council approves Mali military intervention

The UN Security Council has unanimously approved plans for an African-led military intervention in Mali aimed at reunifying the embattled North African state....

Moroccan Oil exploration activity increases

Gulfsands Petroleum announced it acquired Cabre Maroc Ltd., a subsidiary of British independent Caithness Petroleum, in a deal valued at around $19 million. Gulfsands said the company has "an...

Abdelouahab Rahim, president of the National Union of investors: "It is imperative to free investment"

The President of the National Union of investors (UNI), Abdelouahab Rahim pleaded Tuesday in Algiers, for the promotion and stimulation of investment at the national level, emphasizing the importance...

President Hollande acknowledges the suffering of Algeria under French colonial rule

The French presidentdenounced the colonial system s "profoundly unjust and brutal" introduced in Algeria during 132 years by France on the second day of his state visit to the former colony but he...

U.S. State Department security chief resigns post over Benghazi

A senior US security official,Eric Boswell has resigned and his deputies, Charlene Lamb, and Raymond Maxwell, deputy assistant secretary for the Maghreb, were among three others suspended after a...