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Climate Refugees – Today’s New Reality

The continued exodus of Somalis to Kenya and Ethiopia has fuelled the debate on a new issue of global concern: climate refugees, driven from their homes and across borders by extreme weather events....

Presidential Showdown Brings Egypt to the Brink

A week after Egypt’s presidential runoff between the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi and Mubarak-era premier Ahmed Shafiq, the military’s preferred candidate, both men continue to claim victory...

Algeria spends 560 million euros to modernise tourism industry

Algeria has set aside 56 billion dinars (560 million euros, $720 million) to modernise its hotels and thermal baths, the tourism minister said on Thursday, as the country seeks to boost sectors...

Morocco: Reforming education-OBG

Education reform remains a national priority for Morocco, which is working to reduce youth unemployment and provide studentswith better training to match job market offerings....

Mali PM: The preferred option is negotiation

Following trips to Algeria to meet President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and France where he saw Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Mauritania where he met President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, interim Prime...

Angry Young Tunisian Salafists threaten a peaceful revolution - The Economist.

The Economist noted the mix of international businessmen at the Tunisian investment conference at Gammarth on 11 and 12 June. Businessmen from...

Morocco is ranked 87th in the Foreign Policy Report on failed states

Morocco is the second safest country after Tunisia that despite the troubles of the Arab spring is the most efficient state in the Maghreb....

Abu Dhabi's TAQA signs $1.4bn deal for Morocco power

Abu Dhabi National Energy Co (TAQA), a state-owned oil explorer and power supplier, has signed a $1.4 billion financing arrangement for the expansion of its power plant in Morocco, it said in a...

RIO + 20 proclaims green economy but faces many critics

The Rio +20 summit pledged Friday to promote a "green economy" saving the planet's natural resources and eradicating poverty, while the critics homed in on its lack of binding targets and funding....

U.S. Drone Strikes Setting Dangerous Global Precedent

U.S. counterterrorism measures are under intense scrutiny from United Nations (U.N.) experts and civil rights groups declaring drone strikes illegal under current frameworks....

Mauritian Farmers Hooked on Fair Trade

In finding a way to survive a 36 percent cut in sugar prices, Mauritian farmers are not only exporting a variety of fruit and vegetables to the European Union, but they have also begun farming in a...

RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say Activists

When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers. The United Nations and the...

The Electoral Commission could consider a new Egyptian presidential election

Collapsing under more than 440 complaints about irregularities, the HCEP could call new presidential elections throughout the country. It was...

Best Companies to Work For in Morocco 2012

The registration for the 2012 program “The best Companies to Work For in Morocco” is still open. This program is an initiative organized...

Tunisia FDI's up 42.8 % in first 5 months of 2012

Foreign investments including FDI's and Portfolio's reached 942.3 million dinars at the end of the first five months of 2012 recodring a 42.8 per cent rise against th same period in 2011 and 14.4 pe...

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Libya's tribal clashes leave 105 dead

Recent tribal clashes in western Libya left 105 people dead and some 500 injured, the government has said. Government spokesman Nasser al-Manaa...

Libya judge who ordered arrest of ex-army chief Abdul Fatah Younes killed

Libyan judge Jumaa Hassan al-Jazwi, who ordered the arrest of Moamer Kadhafi's ex-interior minister after he defected to lead rebels last year and died in mysterious circumstances, was murdered on...

Luxury brands look for new African markets

In another sign of the growing affluence of Africa's booming economies luxury goods manufacturers are tagetting rich African millionaires who are eager to buy....