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The extreme summer heat leaves forests liable to the risk of fire. In America, France, Spain Portugal and the Canary Islands fires breakout and cause devstation. Global warming may be adding to the...

Dioncounda Traore is holding talks to form a unity government in line with Ecowas's demands. Perhaps for the first time all sections of the political spectrum in Bamako may be consulted. ....

Following the incident at Rafah and other armed confrontations President Morsi has acted decisiviely against islamic extremists and Bedouin tribes involved in the confrontation. He has sacked his...

The Minister Delegate for the Budget, after contradicted his Finance Minister Nizar Baraka, denying any crisis in Morocco, this time to attack, statements by the head of the Moroccan government,...

The FAO Food Price Index climbed 6 percent in July 2012 after three months of decline the agency announced today. this was the result of drought in difeerent countries brought on by adverse climatic...

Mustapha Abdul Jalil the National Transitional Council leader handed over power to the General National Congress on Wednesday evening. The oldest member of the 200 seat legislative assembly Mohammed...

The Syrian army has launched a ground assault on the northern city of Aleppo, sparking fierce clashes with opposition fighters in the frontline district of Salaheddine....

Pregnant women miscarrying due to mistreatment, detainees mainly from sub-Saharan Africa denied adequate food and water. Small cells crammed with 80-100 detainees subjected to arbitrary justice by...

The resort to load shedding in south-eastern region of Algeria will continue till the end of summer to preserve a balance between the demand and supply, said thed CEO of electricity and gas company...

Strengthening transitional institutions in Mali is a "necessity" and a "precondition" for the settlement of other problems in the country, said Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader...

For fear of the risks of economic crisis in the euro area, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, today announced its wish to withdraw funds from European banks. Shell has made a firm decision to place $...

A senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official called for Tunisia to send "positive signals" to the international community and foreign investors on Monday....

As government security forces continue a week-long siege of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, high-ranking Syrian officials have begun to defect from the regime in record numbers....

Faced with Islamist groups, such as Mujao, trying to impose Sharia law, a portion of the population resisted in Gao. Demonstrators prevented amputation of the hand of a thief. To overcome the lack...

The Consitutional Assembly is considering a draft bill for a temporary judicial council which Human Rights Watch (HRW) warns does not contain sufficient measures to protect judges against arbitary...

16 Egyptian soldiers and border guards at Rafah crossing were killed by armed attackers who then stole 2 armoured vehicles and attempted to enter Israel yesterday. One vehicle containing explosives...

Hundreds of children have been forced into armed groups in northern Mali, some serving as soldiers and others used as sex slaves, rights campaigners told reporters Sunday....

“It will collapse, and the collapse will be harder when it happens later,” says Tareq Sadeq, Palestinian economist and professor at Birzeit University, about the financial bubble building up in the...

In many areas, it seems to work backwards. Actually, we also come to see the disadvantages and shortcomings of the spontaneous, unorganized revolution. The period of euphoria has passed and all...