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Heavy Security precautions for the visit of Kerry Kennedy, President of RKF to Polisario Camps .

The visit of the President of the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation (RFK), Ms. Kerry Kennedy, which began in the Polisario camps in south west Algeria from August 29, 2012, was marked by extraordinary...

Tunisia investments down

In terms of regional development intended investments dropt 13.9% in the first 7 months of 2012reaching 954.5 million Tunisian Dinars (TD) as against 1,108.7 million TD in the same period in 2011...

Algeria FM : multilateral system reform and revitalisation at NAM Conference.

Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci underlined the importance of the " revitalization of the multilateral system, in his intervention in the ministerial meeting preparatory to the 16th Non-Aligned...

Egypt's trade deficit rises for fifth consecutive month

Imports continue to outstrip exports as deficit climbs an annual 10 per cent in March, state figures show.Egypt's trade deficit soared to LE19 billion ($3.1 billion) in May, 10.2 per cent higher than...

Montreal World Film Festival Previews Mohamed Zran's documentary "Dégage" 30 August

The last documentary feature film by Tunisian dircetor Mohamed Zran is to be screened on Thursday 30 August in a world preview at the 36th Montreal Film Ferstival which içs running from 22 August to...

Detention in Italy Better Than Home in Tunisia

A year ago Salim, a 23-year-old from the ancient Tunisian city Gafsa decided to leave his country using a smugglers’ network notorious for transporting desperate Tunisian citizens to Europe by boat....

Libya’s interior minister withdraws resignation

Libya’s interim interior minister, Fawzi Abdel-Ali ,returned to work Tuesday, two days after he resigned following attacks by hardliners on Sufi Muslim shrines as police watched, prompting harsh...

BP’s $2 billion offshore drilling activity in Libya set for 2013

British Petroleum has announced plans to start its $2 billion deep-sea drilling program next year, under a joint exploration and production (E&P) agreement with the National Oil Corporation, Libya...

Morsi rejects IMF Advice on Devaluation

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi announced that he would not consider raising taxes or devaluing the currency in order to promote economic recovery, relying instead on investment, tourism, and...

Un français résident à Marrakech se donne la mort par pendaison

Marrakech : Le défunt avait 44 ans et vivait et travaillait à la cité ocre en tant que gérant de restaurant. A 15h00 de l’après midi du Lundi 27 août, une femme de ménage, en rentrant au domicile de...

Tunisia doubles UK visitors

UK visitors to Tunisia more than doubled last month, with a 50.7% increase on July 2011. The resilient country saw a 7.2% increase on the country’s record-breaking visitors figures of July 2010...

Faced with Mujao ultimatum what can Algeria do?

Do political negotiations conducted by the Algerian authorities with the terrorist groups of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Mali have a relationship with the evolution of the situation of...

Algeria's unemployment for 2011 stays at 10%

Algeria's jobless rate for 2011 was 10 per cent, the same as the previous year, even though unemployment among graduates dropped significantly, the National Office of Statistics (ONS) announced on...

Marrakech : Une femme écrouée pour polyandrie

Marrakech : Le bureau du procureur du Roi à Marrakech a ordonné que soit écoutée par la police judiciaire, une femme accusée d’avoir épousé deux hommes en même temps. Des sources médiatiques locales...

Algerian hostage of Mali Islamists appeals for help: video

An Algerian hostage held by an Islamist militant group in lawless northern Mali has called on his country to save his life, according to a video seen by AFP on Sunday. An Algerian hostage held by...

Ban rejects Morocco calls to replace Western Sahara envoy

UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Saturday told Morocco's monarch he would not give in to demands to change his peace envoy on the Western Sahara conflict, diplomats said....

New Mujao threat to Algeria

Kidnapping of diplomats, attack Tamanrasset, Mujao (Movement for the uniqueness and jihad in West Africa present in northern Mali) has been the bane of Algeria forsometime. The Islamist group is...

Libya: Muslim shrines destroyed by radical Islamists

Islamist fundamentalists destroyed the mausoleum of a Muslim saint in Tripoli with shovels and desecrated his grave in the aftermath of the destruction in the west of Libya's largest mausoleum of...

Tunisia President launches attack on Ennhada

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Friday attacked his Islamist allies in the ruling coalition, accusing them of seeking to monopolise power, in a letter read at the opening of his Congress for...

Morocco: AFP correspondent attacked by police while covering protest

Reporters Without Borders condemns an attack by police officers on Agence France-Presse correspondent Omar Brouksy as he was covering a demonstration by various groups and NGOs outside parliament...