Morocco will launch a tender in the autumn to sell 4G licences in a move that may allow the entry of a fourth operator to the market, a business weekly reported on Friday citing the head of the...

Looking for fresh ways to revitalise Morocco’s tourism sector, the minister of tourism has suggested several alternative measures be taken this year to boost revenues and tourist arrivals. Both...

Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah, in Cannes with an Arab Spring drama, defiantly vowed on Thursday that the Islamists jockeying for power back home would never succeed in stifling art. "In a...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood organised on Thursday a kilometres-long rally to support its candidate in next week's presidential election, displaying the potent network of activists it counts on to win....

Warda El Djazairia died on Thursday in Cairo, at the age of 72, she suffered a heart attack, according to several electronic media. Her body will be repatriated to Algiers today, according to other...

The specifications of the 3G and the three operators of mobile telephony "are ready" to launch this technology in Algeria, expected "in the coming weeks," even if the case of Djezzy persists, the...

The successor to Mohammed Horani, Myriem Chaqroun Bensalah, president of the company Oulmès mineral waters, is the first woman to be elected head of the employers. The eldest  child of the late...

Morocco’s phosphates exports rose 15.7% to reach over 4.26 billion dirhams in April, against 3.68 the same period last year, Morocco’s foreign exchange regulator Office des Change said. Phosphates...

Mohammed Fawzi Eissa, a lawyer for several ministers from ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime on trial for fraud, said he now supported Mussa as the next president of Egyp, APS reports.. Egypt...

Qatar has revived plans to build a $2bn oil refinery in Tunisia after years of delays, Qatari and Tunisian officials said yesterday, expanding the North African country’s refining capacity more than...

When the French seized Casablanca in the early 1900s, they turned the historic Morrocan port into a classic of colonial architecture that would be immortalized in the 1942 namesake film. In the...

One is a conservative Islamist attempting to reinvent himself as a pragmatic liberal, the other is a secular statesman trying to distance himself from the authoritarian regime he once served. Both...

The despair over unemployment that sparked the Arab Spring continues to dog graduates in the region. David Matthews reports from a British Council conference in Morocco that aimed to find solutions...