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Libya’s assembly elects Mustafa Abu Shagur as Prime Minister

Members of Libya's national assembly have elected Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abu Shagur as the country's next prime minister.In a run-off vote he narrowly beat Mahmoud Jibril - who served as...

US-Arab Relations will be Defined by Reaction to Attack - Carnegie Foundation

Paul Salem Director and Senior Associate Middle East Center for the Carnegie Foundation for international peace writes that The killing of the US ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other...

Tunisian Newspapers Strike for Free Speech

Tunisia's government is accused of interfering in the mediaTwo of Tunisia’s leading newspapers, the Arabic daily Essabah and the French daily Le Temps, went on strike Tuesday to protest government...

Libya: US Ambassador and three other U.S. officials killed in Benghazi attack

The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, was killed in unclear circumstances during an attack which was carried out by radical Islamists against the Washington consulate in Benghazi, in the...

Protestors attack US Consulate in Benghazi over Film. One American dead and other injured.

Militiamen attacked the US Consulate in Benghazi tonight over the film “Mohammed’s Trial” which is said to have been made in the US by Coptic Christians and protestors say insults the Prophet....

Egypt protesters torch US embassy flag over anti-Islam film

Egyptian protesters on Tuesday took down the American flag from the walls of the US embassy in Cairo during a thousands-strong demonstration held to protest a short film produced by US based...

Algeria: SNTF to invest 127 billion dinars 2012-2015

A budget of 127 billion Algerian dinars has been allocated to the Algerian National Railway Company (SNTF).It is launching this ambitious investment program for 2012-2015....

Morocco launches 'strategic dialogue' with the U.S.

Thursday 13 September will see the first session of the strategic dialogue between Morocco and the USA, headed by the two, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the two countries....

Syrian Kurds Find the Language of Freedom

“I want to learn how to read and write in my own language,” says Manal, a young Kurd from Syria. Neither she nor any of Manal’s 30 classmates have ever been so close to achieving their goal....

Mali: Mujao amputates the left foot and right hand of five suspected thieves in Gao

The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao) , according to witnesses, cut off the left foot and right hand of a suspected thief, in Gao on Monday....

UN independent experts condemn destruction of Sufi religious sites in Libya

Three United Nations independent experts today strongly condemned the destruction of Sufi religious and historic sites in various parts of Libya, as well as the intimidation and excessive use of...

Marzouki: "Tunisia is not immersed in Islam"

In an interview with french journalists President Moncef Marzouki seeks to counter the negative image of Tunisia in the media and that islam is in large part soluable in democracy....

Rumour of President Bouteflika’s demise is premature.

A post on the blog of French journalist Alain Julles caused pandemonium in Algiers on Friday night. The journalist asserted that President Abdelaiz Bouteflika was clinically dead in a Swiss clinic....

16 moderate islamic preachers killed by Malian army

Sources report that 16 Mauritanian and Malian Islamic preachers from the Dawa sect were shot dead by the Malian army in Diabaly, 430 kilometers (267 miles) north of Bamako, when they were traveling...

Egyptian PM: IMF deal in 2 months

Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has said that the IMF loan for $ 4.8 billion should be completed in 2 months according to AFP. He is also looking for a joint loan from the World Bank and the African...

French hostages shown on video

Four French men kidnapped by al Qaeda militants in northern Niger almost two years ago appeared in a video on Saturday appealing to French President Francois Hollande and their employers to continue...

Tunisia : the divisions multiply

The draft constitution contains articles affecting women's rights, freedom of expression, a blasphemy law and whether there should be a presidential or a parliamentary system .These are the issues...

Morroco’s historically high unemployment

Morocco had a demographic population explosion in the 70’s and 80’s caused by in a high birth rate and one of the results was high unemployment.Many Moroccans sought to leave Morocco for Europe and...

Dioncounda Traoré’s request to Ecowas denounced by CNRDRE spokesman

A spokesman for the CNRDRE which represents the former Junta rejected the Malian President’s request to ECOWAS for 5 battalions to assist with retaking the North from islamists....

Libya: 3 dead following Sufi shrine clashes by Salafists at Rajma

Three people have been killed following the latest attempt by militant Salafists to destroy a sufi shrine, the interior minister has said.The incident took place yesterday in the eastern town of...