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The North Africa Journal - March 13, 2017 - After six years in luxury confinement, the Egyptian Prosecutor has ordered today the release of former President Hosni Mubarak, but kept him on travel ban list. The former Rais, an ex-military man, was ousted by the Egyptian...

The fifth round of talks on peace in northern Mali ended in Algiers with nothing in favor of the northern populations. Pitting the government of Mali in Bamako to the northern Touareg tribes in the north, the Algiers talks were meant to inject a certain logic in the...

For a long time, many in the Algerian government have sought to curtail the power of the private and independent press. Using state-owned printing presses and the state advertisement agency, the government managed to put pressure on many private newspapers using such...

According to Forbes, Africa had 1,426 billionaires in 2013. These are mostly business people and may not take into clear account the kings, president and generals who obviously are entitled to own what pleases them. Nigerian, South Africans and Egyptians tend to do...