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Gafsa region in the south of Tunisia was once an oasis; today the phosphate industry has plunged it into a water crisis.“This summer for the first time we had water cuts on a daily basis,” says...

The UN special rapporteur on torture said on Saturday that the inhumane treatment of Moroccan detainees appeared to be "very frequent," and deplored the rise in the use of excessive force to quell...

Police protestors and army units stormed the heqdquarters of the Ansar al-Sharia brigade which has been accused of the attack on the US Embassy forcing them to flee. they also foced out the Sahaty...

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton met with Tunisia's Foreign Minister Rafif Abdessalem in Washington yesterday. it was their first meeting since the attacks on the American Embassy and the...

The President spoke on the 52nd anniversary of Mali's independence recalling the tragedy of the division of Mali with rebel forces in the North dividing the country and forcing Sharia on the...

Mustapha Ben Jaffar,Speaker of the Constituent Assembly and Rachid Ghannouchi head of Ennhada have condemned Salafist violence and reassured the Tunisian people and investors that the police will now...

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called on Thursday for a global action against the incitement to hatred after the screening of a movie and the publication of cartoons insulting Islam...

The dark rain clouds and circling military helicopter accentuated the mood of the small, sombre crowd gathered in Tripoli’s Martyr’s Square to commemorate Libya’s dead heroes....

The Moroccan employers association is engaging with government and called for a new deal for the growth and competitiveness with concrete and candid responses to the questions and problems posed to...

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on Wednesday criticized France for calling for the "invading" of northern Mali, saying that this could lead to "the deaths of the French hostages" and "further...

The deployment of a force in Mali by the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) is mired in disagreements between ECOWAS and the Malian authorities are still not on the same wave length....

Egypt’s general prosecutor issued arrest warrants on Tuesday for seven Coptic Christians and a Florida-based US pastor linked to an anti-Islam film that has sparked riots across the Muslim world....

The french Weekly satirical paper Charlie Hebdo has published provocative cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in its issue published on Wednesday on the inside pages, which, according to its director...

Françoise Larribe, a former hostage in the Sahel and wife of Daniel Larribe still held by AQIM, spoke on Tuesday to Europe 1 of the "endless wait" experienced by her husband. "This is an undated...

Darlington sisters, Pippa and Tara, Whiteparish, Salisbury The sisters had been on holiday in Morocco.Two sisters from Wiltshire have died in a car crash in Morocco....

Morocco began a strategic dialogue with the United States last Thursday, considered the culmination of a centuries-old relationship between the two countries in these times of great challenge...

It is utter madness that any hate-consumed or lunatic nonentity located anywhere in the world can turn the Muslim world into a seething cauldron of violence, negatively impacting geopolitical...

In her State Department briefing yesterday Victoria Nuland said that US Ambassador Susan Rice was giving the latest US assessment that the Benghazi consulate attack was not premeditated or...

While Tuesday’s killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other U.S. officials in Benghazi dominated the headlines here last week, the larger concern for most foreign policy experts here was...