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Tunisia: State or Emergency renewed for a month

The Presidency announced in a communique that the state of emergency would be extended by one month to the end of August TAP reported. The...

U.S. Net Index Report on Algeria, One of the Most Underdeveloped Countries for Internet Connection

A survey conducted by a US company Net Index, on the speed of Internet flow in 175 countries around the world, ensuring a daily internet speed, between 24 January to 21 June 2012, showed that...

Sahara: Ban Ki-moon could personally take charge of negotiations

Ban Ki- moon may be close to taking on the role of mediator, to stimulate a solution to this dispute, which has lasted for nearly 40 years. UN sources have mentioned the high probability, that...

The monarchy has new clothes

It is a little over a year since the Moroccan people gave its approval for a new constitution.A new sacred law for the country, initiated by the Head of State, who laid out the broad lines in his...

Mali: AI calls for investigation into disappearances, killings and torture of Junta opposition

Amnesty International has called on Mali to halt its slide into human rights chaos and open investigations into dozens of cases of enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and torture...

Algerian Auto imports rise by 50% in H1 2012

Algeria imported 263,787 vehicles in the first half of 2012, against 176,901 over the same period in 2011, an increase by 49.12%, the Algerian Customs reported Monday....

Africa growing, political risks remain

Africa will continue its economic growth into the next year, but faces increasing threats from continued political instability, youth unemployment and the global recession dragging down oil and...

EU Commission adopts 2012 Action Programme for Morocco worth 112 million Euros

The European Commission announced on Monday its adoption of the 2012 Action Programme for Morocco with an overall budget of 112 million Euros....

Egypt Opening Doors to Gaza, Slowly

With the election of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi as Egypt’s first-ever freely elected president, the Gaza file – especially as it pertains to Egypt’s border with the besieged enclave – is...

Panetta offers Tunisia help in 'terrorism' fight

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday said the United States was ready to help Tunisia develop its defence capacities to combat Al-Qaeda, and urged closer AMU regional cooperation in fighting...

Morocco: Can the Third Way Succeed? Carnegie Foundation

In 2011 King Mohammed VI was the only Arab ruler to initiate a process of reform by amending the constitution with a referendum that approved the amendments. The ensuing legislative elections...

Tirs à l'armes à feu entre gendarmes et trafiquants de drogue à la région de Marrakech

Oulad Hassoun – Région de Marrakech : Les gendarmes était intervenus pour mettre fin à une altercation entre deux gangs de trafiquants de drogue avant de se retrouver visés par des tir de fusils....

Marrakech : Benkirane rencontre Sarkozy

Marrakech : Le chef du gouvernement a rencontré l’ex-président français, dimanche à la résidence royale Jnan El Kébir, sis en banlieue de la cité ocre. [Abdelilah...

Saidal seeks to build successful national pharmaceutical industry

Algeria’s public pharmaceutical group Saidal seek to take up the challenge of meeting the needs of domestic drug market, with a strategy of reducing imports through the development of a successful...

Lebanon Heading for Failed State Status?

Every day Lebanon is being plunged further into a state of general insecurity, as chaos from the war in Syria seeps across the border. Repeated...

ECOWAS Defence Chiefs call for international support on Mali

The Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) of ECOWAS Member States has endorsed the report and outcome of the Technical Assessment Mission (TAM) to Mali and called for international support for...

Morocco's 850 MW Wind Farm Project

Morocco's state-run power utility, ONE,invited companies to submit expressions of interest in five wind farm projects with a total power generation capacity of 850 megawatts in the energy-importing...

Algerian Hydrocarbons law

The cabinet will discuss next Wednesday a draft law supplemental to the Hydrocarbons law issued in 2006 which is set to introduce radical changes in the Hydrocarbons sector as well as in the types of...

Morocco celebrates Throne Day

Morocco is celebrating the thirteenth anniversary of the accession of His Majesty King Mohammed VI to the throne of his glorious ancestors....

Spain evacuates aid workers from Tindouf camps

Spain is evacuating all its aid workers and three other foreign nationals from refugee camps in Tindouf, western Algeria, due to "growing insecurity"....