Hackers have briefly disrupted online voter registration for elections in Tunisia later this year, the election commission has said.

The Polisario Front is facing an unprecedented challenge to its leadership of the Sahrawi independence movement in Western Sahara.

Morocco has put its security services on high alert after intelligence reports revealed a “serious terror threat” from Islamist militants returning home after fighting in Iraq and Syria, the government said.

Israel may be preparing for a ground battle with the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas. Hostilities between Israel and Hamas militants have been escalating since the killing of 3 Israeli teenagers. The Israeli military is continuing its airstrikes...

Algeria has appointed three women army Generals, therefore becoming the Arab country with the biggest number of high-ranking female army commanders.

A new school of medicine will soon open its doors to young and future doctors.  Morocco will have its first multidisciplinary private medical school situated in the economic capital of Casablanca.

Morocco rejects the African Union’s decision to appoint a special envoy for the disputed North African territory of Western Sahara, the country’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

If Japanese commercial airlines started regular flights to Tanzania or any other Africa country, holidaymakers from Southeast Asian countries could boost tourism on the continent, according to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete.

Mauritania’s president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has won another term after getting more than 80 percent of the vote. The former army general, who is backed by the West, has led two military coups that toppled elected presidents.

 “Morocco always stands beside the Tunisian people for better or for worse,” King Mohammed VI of Morocco said on Saturday.