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Al-Qaeda offshoot in North Africa joins Twitter
AFP 28 Mar 2013
The media arm of Al-Qaeda's offshoot in North Africa launched its Twitter account on Thursday by offering "...
Alexandra d’Onofrio's “Love in the Time of Frontiers” reconstructs the sea journey of the Tunisian Nizar to Italy and his dramatic escape from a center in Sicily’s Trapani, using a combination of mobile phone footage and staged photos. 
Failing transience: Three short films about migrants are interesting, but more is needed
Jenifer Evans 28 Aug 2012
Abderrahim lives near the Turin migrant detention center he was previously held in. While waiting to see if he will get...
In this Thursday, 26 July 2012 photo a man enters an art gallery in La Marsa, Tunis. The Spring of the Arts exhibit in the wealthy Tunis suburb of La Marsa triggered June riots that left one dead and 100 injured. Many of the paintings questioned religion's role in society, including some clearly skewering Salafis. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
Tunisian Islamic hardliners threaten democracy gains
AP 30 Jul 2012
TUNIS — Thousands of hardcore Muslims chant against Jews. Youths rampage through cities at night in protest of...
Abdelaziz Belkhadem, head of Algeria's most powerful political party, the National Liberation Front, is back-dropped by a large national flag as he addresses supporters at a rally in Algiers, Sunday, 6 May 2012, on the final day of campaigning ahead of Algeria's elections. Algerians are gearing up for legislative elections on upcoming Thursday and the government is urging people to vote to avoid the low turnouts of past contests. (AP Photo/Paul Schemm)
Voters skeptical of change in Algeria elections
AP 09 May 2012
ALGIERS, Algeria — In the gritty, working-class Algiers suburb of Harrache, activists sporting the green baseball...
A man gestureS towards Algerian police surrounding demonstrators in Algiers, February 19, 2011. About 200 Algerian protesters braved riot police to rally in a central square in Algiers as security forces clamped down on the capital. Like in a previous protest a week ago, when 2,000 demonstrators confronted 30,000 riot police at the same venue, riot police armed with batons and shields, as well as armoured vehicles, took up positions throughout central Algiers ahead of the protest.
Algeria Islamist leader predicts unrest if vote rigged
Reuters 31 Jan 2012
ALGIERS — Algeria's government will ignite an explosion of unrest if it tries to rig a parliamentary election...
Poland computer 'game' helps North Africa transition
Reuters 01 Sep 2011
Poland will soon run a US-designed computer simulation exercise to help senior officials from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya...
Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit (L) gestures towards his unseen Hungarian counterpart Janos Martonyi prior to a meeting in Budapest on December 9, 2010. Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit is on an official visit to Hungary.
FM visits Tunisia, Morocco for political consultations
DPA 03 Jan 2011
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit left for Tunisia on Monday to start a four-day tour that will also see him...
Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General
UN seeks solution to Western Sahara conflict
Reuters 24 Apr 2010
After a meeting with Mohamed Abdelaziz, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, the U.N. press office said in a...
A girl walks past a wall with graffiti about the al-Qaeda network in a Muslim area of the northern city of Kano, Nigeria. Al-Qaeda's network in North Africa, which calls itself Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), is growing more active and attracting new recruits, and threatening to further destabilize fragile governments of heavily-Islamic North Africa, according to US defense and counterterrorism officials
Al-Qaeda growing in strength and numbers in Africa
AP 01 Mar 2010
Washington-- Al-Qaeda's terror network in North Africa is growing more active and attracting new recruits, threatening...
Al-Qaeda
01 Mar 2010
A girl walks past a wall with graffiti about the al-Qaeda network in a Muslim area of the northern city of Kano, Nigeria. Al-Qaeda's network in North Africa, which calls itself Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), is growing more active and attracting new recruits, and threatening to further destabilize fragile governments of heavily-Islamic North Africa, according to US defense and counterterrorism officials