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Walking down the street or going from house to house in my native Tunis reminds me how much Tunisians love to talk. Before the revolution, we talked about football. Since January 2011, we have been...

Casablanca Finance City, a financial centre designed to act as a catalyst for growth in north and west Africa, is attracting growing interest from companies from around the world. Amongst those...

Despite weakening global demand for exports, Morocco’s posphate mining sector has seen a promising first half to 2012, buoyed by gradually rising commodities prices....

Around 600 miners employed by Kinross, Canada's third largest gold miner, who had walked off the job on Monday 4th June returned to work on Saturday 9th June....

Since the end of the Libyan revolution weapons have continued to flood out of Libya, looted from depots and sold on the black market. Difficult to track and impossible to quantify, they move in many...

The World bank has warned developing countries that they can expect a prolonged period of volatility in world markets. Developing countries...

The United States reaffirmed its strong commitment to the people of Tunisia and their democratic transition by signing a sovereign loan guarantee agreement with the Tunisian government....

Tunisia has declared an overnight curfew in 8 administrative regions including the capital Tunis following serious rioting. Interior Minister Ali Larayedh said 153 people had been arrested and that...

Tuareg and Islamist rebel groups which seized control of northern Mali in March are trying to find common ground for the joint administration of the territory. Residents of the region fear that...

The first issue of the journal of archaeological studies devoted to North-African heritage has just been published by the Algerian Association for the Protection and Promotion of Archaeological...

Algeria represents a "huge" market for UK investors, this potential is unfortunately not well known in the UK, the CEO of HSBC Algeria, Rachid Sekak said on Tuesday at the Middle East Association...

Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou and his Foreign Minister Mohamed Bazoum have stressed the crisis situation in Northern Mail and the danger internationally ....

Following the creatation of an Algerian Tunisian Business Council in February 2012 in Algiers Tunisian companies have the opportunity to study the advantages of setting up a business in Algeria....

Al Maabar, an Abu Dhabi developer whose partners include Mubadala Development Company, Aldar Properties and Sorouh Real Estate, is to begin the handover of units at its Bab Al Bahr project in...

A British Embassy convoy has been attacked in Benhghazi but a British Embassy spokeswoman said that tehre were no injures according to Reuters....

The initiators of the Great Green Wall of Africa are inspired by the Algerian Green Dam and its success in overcoming desertification.  The Great Green Wall of Africa is a 15km-wide belt of...

Hasankeyf, a small village in southeastern Turkey, has been under threat for 15 years. Home to approximately 3,000 people, the site is one of the oldest continuously inhabited human settlements, with...

Libya has announced that elections for a constituent assembly, the country's first national vote after four decades of dictatorship The election had originally been set to be held by June 19....

With the Senate already controlled by the Socialists, it appears that President François Hollande will also have a majority in the lower house possibly with the support of allies. This would give him...