2012-05-16 Northern Mali residents are prepared to mount a resistance to the armed Islamist and al-Qaeda fighters that have occupied their towns for nearly two...Continue...

2012-05-16 Algeria on Tuesday (May 15th) announced the final results from the May 10th parliamentary elections, Tout sur l'Algerie reported....Continue...

2012-05-16 A Nouakchott appellate court on Tuesday (May 15th) upheld the death sentence of Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Ahmednah, convicted last year for the 2009 mur...Continue...

2012-05-16 Tripoli Military Council head Abdel Hakim Belhadj on Tuesday (May 15th) announced that he had resigned in order to participate in Libya's June 19th c...Continue...

2012-05-16 Tunisian authorities barred two Moroccan radical preachers from entering Tunisian territory, interior ministry spokesman Khaled Tarrouche said on Tue...Continue...

2012-05-16 Libya's High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) on Monday (May 14th) reported that voter registrations had exceeded 2 million....Continue...

2012-05-16 Mauritania's estimated GDP growth was four per cent in 2011, AFP reported, citing an International Monetary Fund (IMF) statement released on Tuesday...Continue...

2012-05-16 The fifth MENA Renewable Energy Conference opened on Tuesday (May 15th) in Marrakech, APS reported. Some 500 policymakers, experts and investors from...Continue...

2012-05-16 ES Setif claimed their fifth Algerian Ligue 1 championship on Tuesday (May 15th) following their 4-2 home win over CS Constantine. This is the second...Continue...

2012-05-16 Orange CAF Champions League title-holders Esperance Tunis will play fellow Tunisians Etoile du Sahel, Algerian side ASO Chlef and Nigeria's Sunshine...Continue...

2012-05-15 Malian citizens took to the streets of Gao on Monday (May 14th) to protest against the armed Islamists and other militants who seized their city afte...Continue...

2012-05-15 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday (May 14th) commended the people and the government of Algeria for the "peaceful conduct" of th...Continue...

2012-05-15 Almost half of Moroccans between the ages of 15 and 29 years are neither working nor in school, the World Bank announced Monday (May 14th) in a new r...Continue...

2012-05-15 Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali appointed a new governor for the oasis town of Kebili, Tunisia Live reported on Tuesday (May 15th)....Continue...

2012-05-15 After regional mediation failed to break the political deadlock in Mali, coup leader Amadou Sanogo on Monday (May 14th) urged interim leaders to choo...Continue...

2012-05-15 Specialist doctors rallied Monday (May 14th) outside Algeria's health ministry to demand better working conditions and higher compensation, Tout Sur...Continue...

2012-05-15 Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Wednesday (May 16th) will welcome his Italian counterpart Giorgio Napolitano for a two-day state visit, Tunisia...Continue...

2012-05-15 Morocco will host French side Montpellier for a friendly in Marrakech, Maroc Football reported on Monday (May 14th). Eric Gerets released a prelimina...Continue...

2012-05-15 Algerian Espoir and NA Hussein Dey defender Djameleddine Benlamri is expected to leave his club at the end of the season, DZFoot reported on Monday (...Continue...

2012-05-15 The Atlas Cubs chose the Netherlands for their Olympic training camp, the UNAF reported on Tuesday (May 15th). Several friendlies will be played agai...Continue...

2012-05-14 A candidate running in Libya's upcoming constituent assembly elections was found murdered Sunday (May 13th) near the southern oasis town of Awbari, A...Continue...

2012-05-14 Nigerian terrorist organisation Boko Haram last year received some 200,000 euros from an Algerian terrorist group, Nigeria's Premium Times reported o...Continue...

2012-05-14 A Nouakchott appellate court on Sunday (May 13th) resumed the trial of three men convicted last year for the 2009 murder of an American NGO worker, M...Continue...

2012-05-14 An Algerian court on Sunday (May 13th) convicted a visiting Salafist imam from Yemen of issuing a fatwa against voting in the May 10th legislative po...Continue...

2012-05-14 More than 2,000 Tripoli residents turned out Friday evening (May 11th) at al-Shuhada Square to call for unity and public involvement in restoring sec...Continue...

2012-05-14 The labour union for Tunisia's internal security forces organised a protest in Tunis on Sunday (May 13th) to demand legal protections during and out...Continue...

2012-05-14 Orange CAF Champions League title-holders Esperance Tunis drew away 1-1 on Sunday (May 13th) against Dynamos of Zimbabwe, advancing to the group phas...Continue...

2012-05-14 COD Meknès advanced to the Orange CAF Confederation Cup knockout stage following their barren home draw Sunday (May 13th) with ASEC Mimosas of Cote d...Continue...

2012-05-14 FIFA plans to help the Mauritanian football federation (FFRIM) launch a development programme, PANA reported on Sunday (May 13th). The announcement c...Continue...

2012-05-14 Algeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic called 26 players for the Greens' training camp that begins May 21st in Sidi Moussa, FAF reported on Saturday (May 12...Continue...

2012-05-13 Mediators from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) left Mali on Saturday (May 12th) after failing to reach an agreement with coup...Continue...

2012-05-13 Weapons smuggled into Morocco by terrorists were uncovered in several cities across the kingdom, the interior ministry announced on Friday (May 11th)...Continue...

2012-05-13 Armed Toubou fighters will be offered jobs as security officers for the Libyan interior ministry or other state institutions, Libya Herald reported o...Continue...

2012-05-13 A Casablanca court on Friday (May 11th) sentenced popular Moroccan rapper Mouad Belghouat, 24, to one year in prison for a YouTube music video, AFP r...Continue...

2012-05-13 Mauritanian anti-slavery activists rallied Saturday night (May 12th) in Nouakchott to demand the release of Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid, the jailed chi...Continue...

2012-05-13 Libyan Foreign Minister Ashour Ben Khayal and his Italian counterpart met Saturday (May 12th) in Rome to discuss the illegal immigration crisis, Liby...Continue...

2012-05-13 ASO Chlef advanced in the Orange CFA Champions League after beating Sudanese visitors Al Hillal 4-2 on Saturday (May 12th) in the 1/8th finals....Continue...

2012-05-13 Three goals by Chadian striker Ezechiel Ndouassel and another by defender Hamza Agrebi brought a 4-2 victory to Club Africain in their Orange CAF Cup...Continue...

2012-05-13 Olympique Beja named Kamel Zouaghi to replace sacked coach Fathi Laâbidi, TAP reported on Saturday (May 12th). Former player Faouzi El Ouerghi took o...Continue...

2012-05-11 More than one million Libyans have already registered to participate in the first national elections since the end of Moamer Kadhafi's regime, AFP re...Continue...

2012-05-11 Tunisia's Constituent Assembly president on Thursday (May 10th) proposed November 22nd as the date for the final adoption of the constitution, Mosaiq...Continue...

2012-05-11 More than two kilograms of cocaine were seized Thursday (May 10th) at Algiers' Houari Boumediene international airport, El Watan reported. The drugs...Continue...

2012-05-11 Libya's Minister of Religious Endowments (Waqfs) and Religious Affairs on Thursday (May 10th) appealed to "honest Libyans" to stand up against extrem...Continue...

2012-05-11 Gafsa citizens on Thursday (May 10th) staged a peaceful protest calling for social and economic reform in the region, Tunisia Live reported. Protesto...Continue...

2012-05-11 A European Union project funded the removal of 60 shipwrecks from the Mauritania's Bay of Nouadhibou, PANA reported on Thursday (May 10th). Fifteen m...Continue...

2012-05-11 The 9th Timitar Festival of Amazigh and world music will be held June 27th-30th in Agadir, MAP reported on Thursday (May 10th)....Continue...

2012-05-11 Morocco advanced to the second round of the 2012 Futsal World Cup qualifiers, following the withdrawal of Guinea Bissau, MAP reported on Thursday (Ma...Continue...

2012-05-11 Morocco international and Montpellier midfielder Younes Belhanda on Thursday (May 10th) was named the best African player of France's Ligue 1, Goal.c...Continue...

2012-05-11 Algerian side NR Chlef won their 2012 Women's African Clubs Championship Group A opener, beating Nkumba of Uganda in straight sets Thursday (May 10th...Continue...

2012-05-10 Libyan Interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim El Keib, cabinet ministers, NTC members, sheikhs, khatibs and private citizens gathered Wednesday (May 9th)...Continue...

2012-05-10 Morocco will host a regional summit on Sahel-Saharan security, AFP quoted Moroccan Interior Minister Mohand Laenser as saying on Wednesday (May 9th)....Continue...

2012-05-10 Thousands of Mauritanians on Wednesday (May 9th) participated in a Nouakchott protest march and sit-in. The Co-ordination of Democratic Opposition (C...Continue...

2012-05-10 A top Moamer Kadhafi aide sought on a criminal arrest warrant has turned up in Senegal, Dakar's RFM radio reported on Thursday (May 9th). Bashir Sale...Continue...

2012-05-10 Mauritania's Haratine imams have called on the country's oulemas to issue a fatwa against slavery, ANI reported on Thursday (May 9th)....Continue...

2012-05-10 Wydad Casablanca players and trainers leave Thursday night (May 10th) for Mali, ahead of their week-end clash with AS Real, Wydad.com reported....Continue...

2012-05-10 Esperance Tunis head to Zimbabwe on Thursday (May 10th) for their African Champions League 1/8 final clash against Dynamos, Koora.com reported....Continue...

2012-05-10 Morocco showed the biggest improvement among Maghreb clubs in the new FIFA rankings released on Wednesday (May 9th). The Atlas Lions climbed two plac...Continue...

2012-05-09 Al-Qaeda splinter group MUJAO on Tuesday (May 8th) issued a 30-day ultimatum for the release of the seven Algerian diplomats kidnapped in Mali....Continue...

2012-05-09 Libyan security forces on Tuesday (May 8th) repelled armed demonstrators who attacked the government headquarters in Tripoli, AFP reported. One secur...Continue...

2012-05-09 Libya's first civil trial of pro-Kadhafi fighters opened Tuesday (May 8th) at the newly fortified and renovated Az-Zawiya court complex....Continue...

2012-05-09 Canada on Tuesday (May 8th) rejected Belhassen Trabelsi's appeal for residency. The brother-in-law of ousted Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben A...Continue...

2012-05-09 Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Tuesday (May 8th) inaugurated a high commission for "comprehensive and profound" judicial reform, MAP reported....Continue...

2012-05-09 The 8th Amazigh Book and Audiovisual Fair will open on May 19th in Bouira, APS reported on Tuesday (May 8th). The five-day event will feature more th...Continue...

2012-05-09 Nearly 1,500 Jews are expected Wednesday (May 9th) at Tunisia's Ghriba synagogue, chief event organiser Rene Trabelsi told AFP. Hundreds of Tunisian...Continue...

2012-05-09 The Algeria Football Federation (FAF) on Tuesday (May 8th) refuted claims that the recent loss of three players suggests a crisis in the national tea...Continue...

2012-05-09 Tunisian Ligue 1 side Olympique Béja named former player Faouzi El Ouerghi to replace sacked coach Fethi Laabidi, ShemsFM reported on Tuesday (May 8t...Continue...

2012-05-08 Algerian security services on Monday (May 7th) found a homemade bomb outside a primary school in Issers, east of Boumerdes, Tout sur l'Algerie report...Continue...

2012-05-08 An international arrest warrant for financial crimes has been issued for Bashir Saleh, Tripoli sources on Monday (May 7th) quoted Libyan National Tra...Continue...

2012-05-08 Some 1,800 Moroccan magistrates on Monday (May 7th) signed a petition calling for judicial reforms, including independence from the executive branch...Continue...

2012-05-08 Algerians in Ouargla, Tindouf, El-Bayadh and Tamanrasset began voting Monday (May 7th) in the country's legislative elections, APS reported. Thirty-e...Continue...

2012-05-08 Tunisian citizens mounted a general strike in Kebili on Monday (May 7th) to demand government action on the region's chronic unemployment, Tunisia Li...Continue...

2012-05-08 Morocco is making great strides in its fight against transnational organised crime, Interior Minister Mohand Laenser told legislators on Monday (May...Continue...

2012-05-08 The 13th European Cultural Festival will kick off in Algiers on May 13th, APS reported on Monday (May 7th). The event includes performances of jazz,...Continue...

2012-05-08 Mauritania launched its first private radio station, "Mauritanides FM" (MFM), L'Expression reported on Monday (May 7th). Mauritanian Communications M...Continue...

2012-05-08 All remaining Orange CAF Cup home legs for Malian clubs will be played in Burkina Faso, Super Sport reported on Monday (May 7th). CAF made the decisi...Continue...

2012-05-08 With the end of the Botola season drawing near, competition is heating up between Moroccan league leaders Moghreb Tétouan, FUS Rabat and Raja Casabla...Continue...

2012-05-08 Moroccan Tarik Chaoufi on Monday (May 7th) won the first stage of the 3rd International Challenge Moulay El Hassan cycling race, MAP reported. Algeri...Continue...

2012-05-07 Algerian security services have arrested seven people for the March 3rd Tamanrasset suicide attack, El Watan reported on Sunday (May 6th). The suspec...Continue...

2012-05-07 Scores of armed fighters from Maghreb countries are now in northern Mali, a Malian defence ministry official told AFP on Sunday (May 6th)....Continue...

2012-05-07 Tunisia's National Fact-Finding Commission raised the toll from the Tunisian revolution to 338 dead and 2,147 wounded, Tunisia Live reported on Satur...Continue...

2012-05-07 Libya's High National Election Commission said Sunday (May 6th) that some 330,000 people registered for the June 19th constituent assembly elections...Continue...

2012-05-07 A Lebanese military court charged a Libyan man with international arms smuggling, the Libya Herald reported on Monday (May 7th). The indictment follo...Continue...

2012-05-07 Spanish director Alvaro Longoria's documentary "Children of the Cloud" won the 9th International Film Festival Film of Western Sahara on Saturday (Ma...Continue...

2012-05-07 Wydad surprised city rivals Raja Casablanca 1-0 on Sunday at their 112th derby, played on the 28th day of the Botola Pro series, Le Matin reported....Continue...

2012-05-07 The Tunisian women's U-20 team lost their FIFA World Cup qualifier 3-1 to visitors Ghana on Saturday (May 5th). The Tunisians will head to Ghana in a...Continue...

2012-05-07 ASM Rabat beat Stade Marocain 13-3 on Sunday (May 6th) to win the 6th international petanque tournament of Rabat, MAP reported....Continue...

2012-05-07 JSK defender Essaid Belkalem will join the Greens for their training camp near Paris, Le Buteur reported on Monday (May 7th). Algeria coach Vahid Hal...Continue...

2012-05-07 ES Setif, who are basking in glory after winning the Algeria Cup on May 1st, are now dreaming of achieving the double. On Saturday (May 5th), they to...Continue...

2012-05-06 Moroccan authorities announced Saturday (May 5th) that they dismantled a terror cell linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The network, r...Continue...

2012-05-06 An ANP lieutenant colonel and an army commander were killed in a terrorist ambush near Keddara, 25km southeast of Boumerdes, El Watan reported on Sat...Continue...

2012-05-06 Morocco has strengthened security at Marrakech's famous Djemaa El Fna Square, site of a deadly 2011 bombing, AFP reported on Friday (May 4th). The pl...Continue...

2012-05-06 A Paris court on Friday (May 4th) sentenced a nuclear scientist to four years in jail, after convicting him of plotting attacks for AQIM, AFP reporte...Continue...

2012-05-06 Nigerien Prime Minister Brigi Rafini made a surprise visit to Tripoli on Friday (May 4th), Libya Herald reported. His talks with National Transitiona...Continue...

2012-05-06 Algerians living abroad started voting on Friday (May 4th) in the country's legislative elections, L'Expression reported. The number of eligible vote...Continue...

2012-05-06 Morocco tied 2-2 with Mauritania in the second leg of the 2013 CAN U-20 first round qualifier, played on Saturday (May 5th) in Nouakchott. Morocco ad...Continue...

2012-05-06 A Boumerdes synthetic grass factory began exports at the end of last week, Goal.com reported on Friday (May 4th). Plantes Fleurs Distribution (PFD) m...Continue...

2012-05-06 The 6th international petanque tournament of Rabat kicked off on Saturday (May 5th), MAP reported. Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, Spain and France, as...Continue...

2012-05-06 Coach Djamel Menad will stay with CR Belouizdad until the end of the season, APS quoted club head Abdelkader Khiat as saying on Saturday (May 5th). M...Continue...

2012-05-06 Kenyan Ezkiel Chebil and Ethiopia's Yeshaneh Ababel won the men's and women's races of the 7th international semi-marathon of Bejaia on Saturday (May...Continue...

2012-05-04 The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed Thursday (May 3rd) at a crisis meeting in Dakar to send military forces to Mali upon th...Continue...

2012-05-04 German prosecutors charged four men with plotting to carry out an al-Qaeda attack with homemade bombs, BBC reported on Thursday (May 3rd). The allege...Continue...

2012-05-04 Libyan authorities on Thursday (May 3rd) granted immunity to ex-rebel fighters and unveiled legislation that cracks down on supporters of Moamer Kadh...Continue...

2012-05-04 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) head Thomas Mirow began a two-day visit in Tunisia on Thursday (May 3rd). This is Mirow's fir...Continue...

2012-05-04 Nearly 160 filmmakers, actors and journalists from Europe, Africa and Latin America are at the Sahrawi refugee camp in Dakhla for the 9th Internation...Continue...

2012-05-04 Eintracht Frankfurt striker Karim Matmour on Thursday (May 3rd) announced his exit from the Greens, Le Buteur reported....Continue...

2012-05-04 The Algerian football federation (FAF) officially asked FIFA to relocate the 2014 World Cup qualifier against hosts Mali, DZfoot reported on Thursday...Continue...

2012-05-04 The U-20 CAN qualifier between Libya and Tunisia will be played in Khartoum on May 11th, CAF announced on Thursday (May 3rd). The first leg in Tunisi...Continue...

2012-05-03 A year after the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the US on Thursday (May 2nd) released 17 documents from among a massive trove of fil...Continue...

2012-05-03 Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) splinter group MUJAO on Wednesday (April 2nd) issued ransom demands for the Algerian and European hostages hel...Continue...

2012-05-03 One week after kidnapping a Tizi Ouzou businessman, terrorists freed him in Ighil Oumenchar on Wednesday (May 2nd), Tout sur l'Algerie reported. Omar...Continue...

2012-05-03 Tamanrasset security services arrested a Malian national for attempting to enter Algeria illegally, El Khabar reported on Wednesday (May 2nd). The su...Continue...

2012-05-03 Libya's ruling National Transitional Council on Wednesday (May 2nd) criminalised the glorification of slain leader Moamer Kadhafi and his regime, AFP...Continue...

2012-05-03 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping met Wednesday (May 2nd) in Algiers to discuss the situation in Mali and...Continue...

2012-05-03 The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will meet in Dakar on Thursday (May 3rd) to discuss the political crisis in Mali....Continue...

2012-05-03 Moroccan journalist and Al Massae editor Rachid Nini on Wednesday (April 2nd) called for press law reforms to ensure "freedom of expression", AFP rep...Continue...

2012-05-03 CR Belouizdad coach Djamel Menad plans to leave the club before the end of the championships, Tout sur l'Algerie reported on Wednesday (May 2nd). Men...Continue...

2012-05-03 The French professional footballers' union (UNFP) on Wednesday (May 2nd) nominated Moroccan international and Montpellier midfielder Younes Belhanda...Continue...

2012-05-03 The 9th edition of Morocco's all-female rally "Les Colombes" kicks off Friday with a 163km stage between Temara and Settat, MAP reported on Wednesday...Continue...

2012-05-02 Libya on Tuesday (May 1st) opened 1,350 voter registration centres, including 220 in Tripoli, to prepare for the June 19th constituent assembly elect...Continue...

2012-05-02 A Sfax military court sentenced two Tunisian policemen for killing a young protestor last year, TAP reported on Tuesday (May 1st). Omran Abdelali and...Continue...

2012-05-02 Tizi Ouzou residents continue to exert pressure on the terrorists holding local businessman Omar Rabahallah, Tout sur l'Algerie reported on Tuesday (...Continue...

2012-05-02 The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will hold an extraordinary summit in Dakar on Thursday (May 3rd) to discuss the Mali...Continue...

2012-05-02 Algerian state energy company Sonatrach will resume operations in Libya next week, El Khabar reported on Tuesday (May 1st). Sonatrach reportedly agre...Continue...

2012-05-02 ES Sétif won the 48th edition of Algeria Cup after defeating CR Belouizdad 2-1 on Tuesday (May 1st) in Algiers, APS reported. Abderahmane Hachoud sco...Continue...

2012-05-02 CAF on Tuesday (May 1st) postponed the U-20 CAN qualifier between Libya and Tunisia for security reasons, Shems FM reported. The match was scheduled...Continue...

2012-05-01 Four Algerian police officers were killed Monday (April 30th) when Kabylie terrorists opened fire on their patrol vehicle in Mekla, near Tizi Ouzou,...Continue...

2012-05-01 Benghazi authorities arrested five alleged Kadhafi loyalists for the Benghazi courthouse bombing, Libya Herald reported on Monday (April 30th). At le...Continue...

2012-05-01 Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) offered to free a British hostage kidnapped in Mali if the UK deports radical cleric Abu Qatada to "one of the...Continue...

2012-05-01 The young Jijel street vendor who set himself afire Sunday in an act of desperation died Tuesday morning (May 1st) at hospital in Constantine, Algeri...Continue...

2012-05-01 Tunisia on Tuesday (May 1st) deployed security officers along Avenue Habib Bourguiba and Avenue Mohamed V to secure the two authorised International...Continue...

2012-05-01 Algeria captain and FC Kaiserslautern defender Antar Yahia, 30, decided to leave the Greens, DZ Foot reported on Tuesday (May 1st)....Continue...

2012-05-01 FIFA President Joseph Blatter on Monday (April 30th) made his first trip to Algeria in 10 years. On the first day of his visit, Blatter received Alge...Continue...

2012-05-01 Morocco won the 4th Arab Muay Thai Championships Monday (April 30th) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, MAP reported. The Moroccan kickboxers won a total of...Continue...

2012-05-01 The Tunisian men's basketball team will play in Group A for the 2012 London Olympic basketball tournaments, TAP reported on Monday (April 30th). Acco...Continue...