Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday sacked four of his cabinet ministers in the latest move of repositioning his team to achieve the transformation agenda in the West African country, according to presidency sources.

The Moroccan Sovereig King Mohammed VI agreed in principle to accept three cooperation requests to manage religious matters by Tunisia, Guinea (Conakry) and Libya which have sent such requests to the Moroccan Ministry of Endowments and Islamic...

As many as 76 people were killed on Tuesday when a C-130 Hercules military plane belonging to the Algerian Air Force crashed in the country’s eastern Oum El Bouaghi province, a security source told Media. The plane...

By A. Mahjar-Barducci is Research Fellow for North African Studies at MEMRI. The Mozabite people (Ait M’zab) are Amazigh (Berbers) who live in the M’zab valley in the northern Sahara in Algeria. The community, comprising some 300,000,...

King Mohammed VI received last Friday,  at the Royal Palace in Marrakech, Bilal AG Cherif, Secretary General of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), accompanied by the movement’s spokesperson, Moussa AG Attaher.

At least 11 people were killed in a fresh attack by gunmen on a church in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa, a local official confirmed here on Sunday.

The 22nd African Union (AU) Summit concluded at AU’s headquarters in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa on Saturday, with commitment of transforming agriculture and restoring regional peace.

New China News Agency Calm has returned to the old Algerian desert city of Ghardaia, after some 40 days of ethnic clashes, but everyone remains cautious.

The Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps have been transformed by the inhabitants in an arena of daily protests despite the violent repression, at a time the UN mediator for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, is touring the region.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation said Wednesday it will take the Mandela legacy to the United States next month.