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DNA: Belkhadem has forgotten that he had predicted a large score for the Islamists

On 19 December 2011 Abdel Aziz Belkhadem, secretary general of the FLN said "all political parties of the Islamist movement would obtain between 35% to 40% of the vote, "or between 135 to 155 seats...

Morocco slams "biased" U.N. Western Sahara envoy

Morocco said on Thursday it had lost confidence in the U.N. envoy to the contested Western Sahara territory, in the latest in a long series of setbacks in efforts to settle a decades-old dispute over...

Qatar to proceed with $2bn refinery in Tunisia

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...

Tunisia expels Moroccan Salafists convicted of indoctrinating suicide bombers

About 50 Tunisian Salafist Muslims protested Tuesday at Tunis-Carthage airport against the expulsion of two Moroccan theologians banned from entering the country, an AFP reporter said. According to...

Tunisia: Taking care of the real problems: Jeune Afrique

The cost of living, unemployment, disorder, insecurity are causing great concern, but this does not mean the situation is hopeless.Just so long as everyone gets back to work quickly and seriously...

The solar potential of Algeria in the center of the Asia-Arab forum on sustainable energy

The solar potential of Algeria will be the focus of the second edition of the Asia-Arab on sustainable energy,scheduled to open today at the Mohamed Boudiaf University of Science and Technology of...

Algeria: a new Parliament to draft a new constitution

Algeria is expecting the proclamation by the Constitutional Council validated following results of parliamentary elections on May 10 A poll largely won by the presidential party, the FLN, the...

Algerian Islamist threatens revolt

An Algerian Islamist leader said on Sunday that a Tunisian-style revolt was the only option after polls he charged were fraudulent and threatened a mass pullout of the smaller parties from...

Algerian elections: the vote for stability.

The islamic Green Alliance has said the election results were a fraud but the Interior Minister Dahu Ould Kablia denied this saying the elections were free, transparent and fair. He said that those...

Head of Morocco's broadcasting authority sacked

Chief Moroccan broadcasting boss loses job over disagreements regarding regulation measures which include calling for prayers on television and banning gambling advertisements Morocco's King Mohammed...

Algerian government parties dominate elections

Algeria's two government-allied party dominated parliamentary elections and achieved an absolute majority, the Interior Ministry announced Friday, prompting cries of fraud from an Islamist alliance...

Algerian vote touted as fair, but voters apathetic

Less than half of Algeria's registered voters turned out for parliamentary elections on Thursday, for a contest billed by authorities as the freest in decades. The government announced late onfional...

The participation rate in Algeria's elections reached 44.38% nationally (Ould Kablia)

Voter turnout in parliamentary elections has reached 44.38% nationally, the Minister of Interior and Local Government, Mr. Daho Ould Kablia said on Thursday in Algiers. . The turnout at the national...

Scepticism main challenger in Algerian election

Sceptical Algerians abstained in large numbers from a parliamentary election on Thursday which the country’s ruling elite hoped would help them claw back credibility after Arab Spring revolts left...
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