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The special edition of the Literary Award 2011 Poulina, dedicated to works published after January 14, 2011 on the occasion of the Tunisian Revolution, included more than 20 publications that...

Tamanrasset is the venue for the third annual International Arts Festival of the Ahaggar from 14 to 19 February, Tin Hinan, Abalessa (FIAATA), held this year under the theme of "the relationship...

A Tunisian court cleared Libyan former prime minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi on Tuesday on a charge he had crossed illegally into Tunisia as he fled Libya last year, his lawyer said, AP reports....

An armed group that clashed with Tunisian forces in the south of the country this month had links to Al Qaeda, the interior minister said on Monday, AP reports....

The food crisis in the Sahel and West Africa, could extend to 23 million more people without immediate help, warned the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC ) on...

The French Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Henri Raincourt, said on Monday on Radio France International (RFI) that a massacre of 82 Malian soldiers took place on January 24...

The first project of The Journalism Foundation, which was launched in December last year by former Independent editor Simon Kelner, gets under way today (13 February) in Tunisia ....

The cultural scene has "To help improve the arts and better present the experience on the subject, here is our first issue of the journal" Founoun Hiraf wa "(Arts and Crafts), a new creation that...

In an article on the Arab Spring economies The Economist reflects on the small traders of North Africa as an Egyptian fruit seller explains how he cannnot make ends meet, credit is hard to come by...

The leaders of the Arab Mahreb agreed to hold a summit in the Maghreb during the year, President Mohamed Marzouki announced Sunday evening in Algiers, APS reports....

The exhibition at Leighton House of the paintings of Marrakech by Sir Winston Churchill and Hassan EL Glaoui has been a great success. North Africa United talked to Hassan El Glaoui's daugher...

President of Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika called on Thursday evening politicians, unions and civil society to work together to mobilize voters ahead of parliamentary elections May 10, 2012....

In its Africa Report no 92 on the 31 March 2005 the International Crisis Group (ICG) asked the question "Islamist terrorism in the Sahel: Fact or Fiction?" and noted that the Pan Saharan...

The visit of brotherhood and work that is being undertaken Tunisian President Mohamed Marzouki, Morocco "augurs a promising future for the Maghreb Union," The Minister for Foreign Affairs and...

The declarations by Presidentf Marzouki on reviving the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) concerning a possible mediation between Algeria and Morocco seem to have attracted some gnashing of teeth in Algiers...

Three ferries sailing from Tangier were seized on 6 January due to the debts of their company.240 Moroccan seamen, including some women,are stranded on the car-ferry they can not leave,or they risk...

French carmaker Renault unveiled its giant plant in Tangiers on Thursday with an initial production capacity of 170,000 vehicles per year, it is a global leader in the automotive industry, firmly...

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, said that northern Mali, had been prey since January to fighting between Tuareg rebels and military and is "an area left free for terrorism", in an...

Experts from 10 countries of the western basin of the Mediterranean have adopted a series of measures for better control of the price volatility of agricultural and food products, and focused on...