Confrontée à des difficultés économiques et pressée par le temps, la Tunisie veut changer son image pour sauver la saison touristique 2014 après trois ans d'instabilité, en misant notamment sur les réseaux sociaux.

Thousands of Algerian opposition supporters call for a boycott of next month's presidential election during an unprecedented mass rally.

The US says it has returned the rogue tanker Morning Glory - filled with oil at a rebel-held port - to Libya after a Navy Seals operation.

Plus de 1 200 partisans du président islamiste destitué par l'armée doivent comparaître à partir de samedi en Haute-Egypte lors du plus important procès depuis le début de la répression qui s'est abattue sur eux début juillet.

More than 1 200 supporters of Egypt?s ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi face charges in the country?s biggest trial since an August police crackdown, judicial sources say....

[ECA]Addis Ababa 20 March, 2014 (ECA) - The 15th Session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism-Africa Africa will be held in Abuja, Nigeria from 28-30 March 2014 on the theme: UN support to Africa's Integration in the Context of the African Union Agenda 2063. The session will be held in the margins the Seventh Joint Annual Meetings of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and the ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, which will also be hel...

Nigerian police said Saturday they had raided a home near Lagos where eight pregnant girls were staying with plans to sell each of their newborns for nearly two thousand dollars....

The US says it has returned the rogue oil tanker Morning Glory to the Libyan government. The North Korea-flagged ship had been loaded at a rebel-held port and evaded a naval blockade before being boarded by US Navy Seals south of Cyprus. Its evasion prompted...

TRIPOLI, Libya ? American sailors handed over control of a captured North Korean-flagged oil tanker to Libyan forces while in international waters Saturday, a spokesman for the Libyan navy said. Ayoub Qassem said that the tanker, Morning Glory, is now heading to the port at Zawiya refinery, 40...

The US navy has handed over to Libyan authorities an oil tanker it intercepted after the vessel took to sea with crude illegally loaded at a rebel-held port, the US embassy in Libya said. Earlier today, US forces turned control of the M/T Morning Glory over to the...

TRIPOLI, Libya ? At the heart of the Libyan capital, the open-air Fish Market was once a place where residents went to buy everything from meat and seafood to clothes and pets. Now it's Tripoli's biggest arms market, with tables displaying pistols and assault rifles. Ask a vendor, and he can pull out bigger machine guns to sell for thousands of dollars. Libya, where hundreds of militias hold sway and the central government is virtually powerless, is awash in millions of weapons with no control over their trafficking. The arms free-for-all fuels not only Libya's instability but also stokes conflicts around the region as guns are smuggled through the country's wide-open borders to...

[AlertNet]London -A Sudanese man working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was killed by a stray bullet in Sudan's western Darfur region where escalating violence has forced tens of thousands of people to flee....

[Dalsan Radio]According to residents in Lower Shabelle region, Somali government forces backed by the African Union forces attacked the town of Qoryoley early on Saturday morning....

[AlertNet]Goudebou -The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) counted up to three times the actual number of people fleeing conflict in Mali, data from camps in neighbouring West African nations has shown, raising questions about wastage of donor funds....

[Premium Times]The Nigerian military on Friday said it recovered weapons hidden in a church burnt earlier by terrorists in Kalabalge Local Government Area of Borno State....

Public secondary schools in Nigeria's northeast Borno state have been closed indefinitely following deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram Islamists....

[VOA]A Somali government official says troops have overpowered al-Shabab militants and regained control of Qoryoley, a town located about 100 kilometers south of Mogadishu....

[Garowe Online]Marka -The Somali Federal Government forces aided by African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers have seized Lower Shabelle region town of Qoryoley, about 120km south west of Mogadishu from Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab fighters on Saturday, making the 8th town to be liberated within four weeks, Garowe Online reports....

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) ? Libyan newspapers this week highlighted several issues, including the appeal by the government to the international community and the United Nations, especially, to back the fight against terrorism.
Press Review

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? Preparations for Mauritania's presidential election, set by for June/July, was one of the main issues highlighted by the media this week.
Press Review

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) ? A United States based firm, Seppro Energy, in partnership with the southern Nigeria Akwa Ibom State Government, has concluded arrangements to establish a fertiliser plant at a cost of US$100 million.
Economy

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? The coach of the Mauritanian U-19 football team, Sid?Ahmed Ould Khassoum, on Saturday released the list of 24 players to play Tunisia in the qualifying match for the 2014 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) U-19 tournament to be hosted in Senegal.
Sports

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissoner for Refugees (UNCHR) says it is gravely concerned about new tensions rising in South Sudan's volatile Upper Nile state following what it described as "tit-for-tat" attacks between locals and refugees sparked by food shortages.
Society

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ghana, already through to the quarter-finals of the 2014 FIFA Under-17 Women World Cup in Costa Rica, takes on Canada in a match on Saturday, which could send the Canadians home.

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - AS Kigali of Rwanda on Saturday defeated Difaa El Jadida of Morocco 1- 0 in the the first leg of the one-eighth finals of the 2014 CAF Confederation Cup match played in Kigali.
Sports

How have constitutional referendums shaped the transition to political democracy?

Judge to issue verdict on Monday in case against more than 500 Morsi supporters accused of committing acts of violence.

La justice égyptienne a ajourné à lundi le procès de plus de 1.200 partisans du président islamiste Mohamed Morsi destitué par larmée, le plus important depuis le début de la répression qui sest abattue sur eux début juillet, rapportaient samedi les médias officiels. La première audience, ouverte samedi à al-Minya, à 250 kilomètres au sud [&]

Ils sont aujourd?hui trois anciens premiers Ministres chefs de Partis politiques. Le quatrième a connu le même parcours avant d?être président de la République. De quoi méditer sur le sort de Tamtam Ly aujourd?hui poussé vers la sortie par les caciques du parti présidentiel. Zoumana Sacko, président du parti CNAS FASO HERE (premier ministre pendant [&]

Tous les anciens gouvernements de la troisième république  diront qu?ils ont lutté, certains oseront même dire efficacement, contre la corruption au Mali. Cependant aucun n?a été capable de mesurer le phénomène pour en connaître l?étendue, de procéder à des  mesures afin de déterminer l?ampleur des efforts qu?il aurait entrepris et de connaître les résultats de [&]