North Africa

North Africa's leaders keep it in the family

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Across North Africa, dynastic successions are being seen as increasingly likely, the BBC's Aidan Lewis reports.

Very slow roasted shoulder of lamb with merguez spices

them apples (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

A shoulder of lamb is a hefty cut, but it's cheap and it goes a long way. This method leaves the lamb falling apart, tender from the best part of a day in the oven. It's very satisfying and relaxing to know that something great is happening in your oven at home whilst you're out doing mundane things. My mind often wanders towards the slow cooker or low oven at home when I'm trapped in dull meetings...

USHMM: June workshop, Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust

Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

A June 2010 workshop on Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust will take place at the USHMM in Washington, DC. The application deadline is November 23 (see below). It is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS) of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) which is seeking applications for the workshop, planned for June 16-25, 2010 at the USHMM. Up to 14 applicants will be...

Let Us Work To Make Sure This Headline Doesn't Refer To "North America ..." One Day Soon

The Whig (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

BBC: North Africa's leaders keep it in the family The trend towards succession has spread as clans have cemented their power, and opposition - both domestic and international - has receded ... As in other states, those critics gained little foothold, operating in a context where opposition parties are weak, civil society hamstrung, and political apathy prevails. Ruling regimes dress up changes in democratic...

Updates from "One Day One Struggle"

SexGenderBody (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago

On November 9, 2009, a diverse group of nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions and activists across the Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia carried out bold events to promote sexual and bodily rights as human rights. As part of the historic international campaign “One Day One Struggle” organized by the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies...

World News Briefs -- November 20, 2009 (Evening Edition)

War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday

Pakistan Worries Over New U.S. Afghan Strategy -- Reuters SLAMABAD, Nov 20 (Reuters) - As the United States ponders its Afghan strategy, Pakistan is waiting nervously, worried that a U.S. troops surge would widen the war but also keen to see a robust U.S. commitment that would convince the Taliban to talk. U.S. President Barack Obama pledged on Wednesday to end the Afghan war before he leaves office....

Friday Night Reading, Viewing and Visiting Assignment

SWJ Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Workshop Videos - Watch the presentations from the COIN Center's COIN Leaders Workshop held 27 - 29 October 2009. Includes a COIN Center overview, COIN doctrine, urban simulation, COIN lessons learned from OIF and OEF, the Soviet approach to COIN and border operations in Afghanistan, security architecture and COIN in Pakistan's tribal belt, why Pakistan is...

Five new travel ideas from Intrepid: get off the beaten path!

Gadling (Free subscription) | yesterday

Filed under: Africa , Europe , North America , Algeria , Egypt , Libya , Morocco , South Africa , Iceland , United States , Ecotourism , Travel Deals After a year of "travel slumps," " staycations " and other cringeworthy words and conditions, let's plan to get out on the road next year. Hey, economists are saying that the recession's already over, and the job market's recovery...

Crash spells disaster for dog eaters

IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday

Meat traders in the southern Nigerian city of Calabar are counting the cost after a truck carrying more than 100 dogs overturned.

Tsvangirai to discuss Zimbabwe crisis with Gaddafi

turenchi (Free subscription) | yesterday

Muammar GaddafiZimbabwean Prime Minister, Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai left on Thursday for North Africa, where analysts said he would meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to maintain political pressure on President ...Zimbabwean Prime Minister, Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai left on Thursday for North Africa, where analysts said he would meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to maintain political pressure on President...

• Tsvangirai and Gaddafi set for talks - IOL
• Tsvangirai to discuss Zimbabwe crisis with Gaddafi - Reuters

Tunisia: Banking - BNA, 50 Years and Still Going Strong

All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Under the patronage of President Ben Ali, Tunisia's "Banque Nationale Agricole" (BNA) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary under the motto "a renewed ambition".

Spanish tourists lost at sea

IOL (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Two Spanish tourists have reportedly gone missing at sea after a dive boat capsized off the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Defence Minister Receives Brigadier General

All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

National Defence Minister Kamel Morjane Wednesday received in Tunis Brigadier General Ahmed Aoun, Executive Secretary of North Africa Sector Unit within the African intervention forces, who handed over to him a message from Lieutenant-General Abou Bakr Younes Jaber, Secretary of Libya's Interim General Defence Committee, regarding the next meeting of defence ministers of this structure's member states....

North Africa: Al-Qaida Group Menaces Maghreb, Sahel, Says U.S.

All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

The North Africa-based terrorist group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) continues to be a menace to parts of the Maghreb and the Sahel, but the Muslim populations there generally reject AQIM, and the group is less likely to expand operations into Europe because of pressure being applied by Algerian security forces, says Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, the U.S. State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism....

Half of Afghani and Yemeni Children Suffer from Stunted Growth

News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

A new UN study has found that more than half of all Yemeni and Afghani children suffer from stunted growth. Children in half a dozen countries in the Middle East and North Africa have stunted growth problems resulting from malnutrition, a recent report by the United Nations' children organization (UNICEF) found. The UNICEF report indicates that more than half the children in both Afghanistan and Yemeni...