US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel, the West Bank, Morocco, and Algeria over March 26-30 to discuss the Ukraine war, Israeli-Palestinian relations, the Iran nuclear deal, and gas from Algeria, among other things, the US State Department has announced.

Four of the six GCC members feature within the top 50 of the World Happiness Report, and are atop the rankings among the Arab countries.

Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya, along with several other Arab countries, import much of their wheat from Ukraine and Russia.

The MoU was signed in Riyadh between Saudi Attorney General Sheikh Saud bin Abdullah Al-Mujib with Algerian Algerian Minister of Justice Abdul Rashid Tabbi.

Under Tunisian law, single women can only freeze their eggs if they are facing medical treatment. The eggs are stored for five years, renewable on the patient's request.

Italy imports around 95 percent of the gas it uses, and around 45 percent of that comes from Russia.

A number of Arab countries are heavily dependent on wheat supplies from both Ukraine and Russia.

Algeria's state energy firm is ready to supply Europe with more gas in view of a possible decline due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, its CEO said Sunday.

The two countries had surprisingly good relations for the first four decades, and it was only in the 1990s that things started to fall apart.

The Algerian group announced the deal during a visit to the neighbouring North African country by its chief Toufik Hakkar.

Algeria's special envoy for the Western Sahara on Sunday accused Morocco of "assassinations targeting civilians" outside its "internationally recognized borders", following a recent drone attack in the disputed territory, state media reported. Moroccan authorities "carry out acts of war... and commit extrajudicial assassinations targeting civilians" in the Western Sahara, Amar...

The rise in international raw material prices has increased subsidy spending in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

The Polisario Front took up arms in the 1970s to seek independence in the disputed Western Sahara while demanding an independence referendum.

The UAE and Algeria will work to further strengthen ties between the two countries, and both have shown appreciation for each other's eagerness to boost ties.

Staffan de Mistura, a veteran Italian, diplomat began his first visit to the region and landed in Rabat.

The Algerian firm will make the investments over five years.

More than 600,000 tickets were sold for the 16-team Arab Cup, including a Qatari-record 63,439 crowd when the hosts played the United Arab Emirates in the quarter-finals.

Tunisian authorities are scrambling to find new sites as most of the country's 11 official dumping grounds will close by the end of 2022.

Amir Sayoud scored a goal in the ninth minute of extra-time while Yacine Brahimi scored with the final kick of the game to win Algeria the title of Arab champions. This, even as goalkeeper Rais Mbolhi kept Tunisian attacks at bay.

Addressing journalists after meeting President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Jean-Yves Le Drian said the countries should move past "misunderstandings" and "wounds of the past". He voiced hope that both would work together to bring stability to Libya and Mali.

The announcement came as Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas visited Algiers on Monday.

Tebboune has vowed to reform state institutions inherited from Bouteflika, who died in September at the age of 84.

During Algeria's transition to a market economy in the 1990s, subsidies replaced the fixed prices of a planned economy that had been in place since independence from France in 1962. Algeria's subsidy system has been financed by energy exports that account for about 95 percent of foreign revenues and 60...

The trip comes less than a year after Morocco normalized ties with Israel in a deal brokered by former US president Donald Trump's administration.

An unemployment rate of more than 11 percent and the crisis impact on entrepreneurs and startups major concerns in the region, says IMF chief.

In oil exporting countries, the fiscal deficits in 2020 will be replaced by large surpluses in 2021 and 2022, mainly in GCC. If oil prices average US$ 81/b in 2022, fiscal balances in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Iraq, and Oman are projected to be higher than 3% of GDP.

Morocco controls 80 percent of the largely desert territory, which has mineral reserves and access to rich Atlantic fisheries, as well as providing a potentially strategic trade route linking Morocco with West African markets.

In Tunisia, the land dedicated to organic farming has multiplied 20-fold since 2001. In Morocco, the area of farmland certified for organic production has more than doubled in two decades.

Hakim Alileche left a successful career in graphic design and moved to the Algerian countryside to produce "magic potion" -- organic olive oil that has won him international recognition.

The Western Sahara conflict pits Morocco against the Polisario Front independence movement.

LONDON: The United Kingdom will provide $68 million in funding to help the Middle East and North African countries' energy transition and development of green infrastructure, British Minister for the MENA region James Cleverly said. Cleverly made the announcement on the second day of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)...

Algeria on Friday ruled out returning to roundtable talks over Western Sahara, days after the UN appointed a new envoy for the conflict. “We confirm our formal and irreversible rejection of the so-called roundtable format,” Algeria’s Western Sahara envoy Amar Belani told the APS news agency.

Egypt and Algeria have the largest number of Nobel winners in the Arab world, while Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE are yet to produce one.

Last weekend, Algeria recalled its ambassador from Paris and banned French military planes from its airspace, which France regularly uses to reach its forces battling militants in the Sahel region to the south. The moves came after a bitter row over visas, followed by media reports that French President Emmanuel...

Algeria is the main backer of the Polisario Front independence movement in Western Sahara.

Algerian reaction followed Macron’s comments last week in which he said Algeria’s post-independence “political-military system” had “totally re-written” the country’s history.

Algeria over the weekend recalled its ambassador from Paris and banned French military planes from its airspace.

France's jets regularly fly over Algerian territory to reach the Sahel region of western Africa, where its soldiers are helping to battle insurgents as part of its Barkhane operation. Algeria was angered last week after France cut visas to citizens of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

The statement, from the Algerian presidency, said it had withdrawn its ambassador following media reports of the French president Macron’s comments.

Algeria has been using the Gaz-Maghreb-Europe (GME) pipeline since 1996 to deliver several billion cubic metres per year to Spain and Portugal.

France on Tuesday said it would sharply reduce the number of visas granted to people from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, accusing the former French colonies of not doing enough to allow illegal immigrants to return.

Prime Minister Aimene Benabderrahmane, who attended the launch of the production process at a factory in the eastern city of Constantine, called it a "big achievement". Production could be doubled in the North African nation if needed, officials said.

Paris accuses the former colonies of not doing enough to allow illegal immigrants to return. Immigration is shaping up to be a key issue in next year's French presidential election.

Morocco took delivery earlier this month of Turkish combat drones, the Far-Maroc unofficial website dedicated to military news reported.

  Algeria said Wednesday it has closed its airspace to all Moroccan planes due to "provocations and hostile practices" by its neighbour, in the latest dispute between the countries at odds mainly over Western Sahara. The move comes after Algeria broke off diplomatic ties with Morocco on August 24, accusing...

Gold prices reached record levels in 2020 following an increase in investor appetite because of COVID-19. The price of yellow metal decreased slightly at the beginning of 2021, but in recent months it returned to its previous level with expectations of growth in the latter half of the year.

Bouteflika became president of Algeria in 1999 as the former French colony emerged from a decade of civil war that killed nearly 200,000 people. Dubbed "Boutef" by Algerians, he initially won respect for helping foster peace, notably with an amnesty law that prompted thousands of Islamist fighters to hand in...

Even as the GCC countries dither to embrace cryptocurrencies, the UAE has made some significant strides in this regard.

Nearly a century after doctors first issued warnings about the toxic effects of leaded petrol, Algeria -- the last country to use the fuel -- exhausted its supplies last month

Senior party official Oussama Khelifi told reporters "official information" was still being awaited