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Sahel Terrorism: Jihadists self-proclaimed criminals at heart!

In northern Mali, jihadists use the pretext of sharia criminal to satiate their desires: sexual abuse, trafficking in women and drugs, conscription of child soldiers in jihadist units included in...

Algeria:"Some tribes are complicit with terrorists" -Major General Zerad Cherif

Major General Zerad Chérif, head of the Algerian army's department of enrolment and preparation warned against the growth of terrorist groups' activities in the Sahel at a seminar organised by the...

Morocco jails activist for 12 years

A Moroccan court has jailed an activist with the February 20 protest movement for 12 years for taking part in an unauthorised protest, a rights group said on Tuesday, slamming the ruling as an act...

Salafists destroy ancient Moroccan carvings: NGO

Stone carvings in Morocco's High Atlas mountains dating back more than 8,000 years and depicting the sun as a pagan divinity have been destroyed by Salafists, a local rights group said on Wednesday....

Tunisian journalists on strike to defend freedom of expression

Tunisian journalists are staging a strike during the whole day on Wednesday to demand the establishment of freedom of expression.trouble has been brewing between the Ennhada led government and...

Tizi Ouzou: Four terrorists killed and another captured

The security forces shot dead four terrorists yesterday in the wilaya of Tizi Ouzou, and captured another injured after two shot outs in Tadmait and Ain El Hammam,the daily newspaper El Watan reports...

Theatre opens up new worlds in Tunisia

The Tunisian city where I took my first steps is called El Kef. My first dreams and earliest ambitions were born in this city. Yet when most...

Obama and Romney second TV debate

The second TV presidential debate saw President Obama produce a far sharper and more focused performance against Governor Romney. The two openents attacked each other onthe economy,energy,taxation...

EU Moves Toward Military Training Mission in Mali

European Union foreign ministers have agreed to take steps toward sending a non-combat, military training mission to the country to prevent it from becoming a terrorist haven,writes the German news...

French business expresses anger and frustration with. François Hollande

France is sliding into a grave economic crisis and risks a full-blown “hurricane” as investors flee rocketing tax rates, the country’s business federation Medef has warned....

U.S. to train elite military unit in Libya

The Pentagon and U.S. State Department are rushing to help the Libyan government create an elite commando force to help combat extremists and rogue militias, according to internal U.S. government...

Tunisia :National Dialogue Congress opens

The President of the Republic, the National Constituent Assembly Speaker and the Prime Minister attended the opening of the National Dialogue Congress held at Tunis Congress Palace by Tunisia's...

Frost & Sullivan: The Moroccan telecom market will be worth $ 7.4 billion in 2018

Frost & Sullivan is an American marketing and market analysis, present through subsidiaries in 40 countries worldwide.The Californian group estimated the GDP telecom sector in Morocco by 2018,...

Bouteflika a candidate for Presidential elections in 2014 ?

FLN leader Abdelaziz Belkhadem reported to members of the majority party that Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will be a candidate for the presidential elections in 2014....

Fastnet Oil & Gas confirms govt sign off for Kosmos farm-out in Morocco

in another sign of increased oil and gas exploration activy in Morocco, Fastnet Oil & Gas have confirmed that the Moroccan authorities have approved a previously agreed deal to bring in Kosmos...

Al Judaida prison in Tripoli suffers mass breakout

120 inmates have escaped from the al-Judaida prison in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.The prisoners are said to be of various nationalities and officials say about 60 have so far been recaptured. It...

Fortress Algeria - Huffington Post

On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that the group responsible for the attack on the U.S. consulate mission in Benghazi, Libya may be...

Hillary Clinton takes responsibility for Benghazi US deaths

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a news conference in Lima on 15 October 2012 Mrs Clinton said she was focused on tracking down the killers of the US ambassador to Libya. This was her first...

HRW says Tunisia must confront extremist assaults

Human Rights Watch deputy director Middle East and North Africa Joe Stork said on Monday that the failure of Tunisian authorities to investigate these attacks entrenches the religious extremists’...

Govpinion.com: Launch of new website

After beta testing, and due to positive feedback from users, the Govpinion team is pleased to announce that the new version of the site Govpinion.com is finally online.Govpinion is an independent...