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After years of violence and lawlessness during which the Malian town of Menaka changed hands between rebels and Islamists, a fragile calm has finally returned due to joint patrols by federal troops, militiamen and UN peacekeepers. Situated in the desert northeast of...

Kamal Zerfi has long run a junkyard in a no-man's land on the far edge of the Sahara desert. Then government soldiers came and things took a turn for the worse. Zerfi lives in a remote outpost of the Western Sahara region claimed by both Morocco and Polisario Front...

The Jasmin Revolution is Far from Over: buckle up for the next round. An opinion by Arezki Daoud Back in the early 1990s, most, if not all analysts, looked at the Algerian uprising of 1988 and concluded that the “revolution was dead and over.” The Algerian regime...

Tarhuna, Libya: A year ago armed men took Mohamed al-Magri's son for questioning as fighting raged around the Libyan capital, and now he fears Haitham was killed and buried in a mass grave. Magri believes the masked men took his son at gunpoint in revenge, because his...