AFP Egypt protest over military courts CAIRO (AFP) Several hundred activists took part in a one-day hunger strike in Cairo on Sunday to protest the ruling military…
AFP Algeria Islamist party won’t join gov ALGIERS (AFP) Algeria’s largest legal Islamist party on Sunday announced that it would turn down any offer to join the…
Al Arabiya Dina al-Shibeeb: Arabs and heritage, and why Islamists win In this picture dated 1956, shows female journalism students inside Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the chief center…
Lalla Essaydi on Boston’s art scene The artist will receive the Medal Award from her alma mater, Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts, on…
* Quake, strongest in Italy in three years, hit when most slept * Castle, churches, other cultural sites damaged * Up to 3,000 people may have…
By Tiemoko and Diallo BAMAKO May 20 (Reuters) – Mali’s caretaker president Dioncounda Traore will have his mandate extended beyond a 40-day period expiring Monday after…
BENGHAZI May 19 (Reuters) – People in Libya’s second biggest city, Benghazi, voted on Saturday in a local election that will test support for a proposal…
(Adds details, background) ALGIERS May 20 (Reuters) – Algeria’s soft and durum wheat imports in the first four months of this year were down 15.6 percent…