North African countries, each for their own reasons, are increasingly turning their attention towards sub-Saharan Africa. Morocco is pursuing a comprehensive campaign to increase its influence and win ...

When the Egyptian Mohammed Salah won the 2017 African Footballer of the Year, the internet went into an uproar. Why? Some Africans did not think Salah was ‘African’ enough to have earned the title.

As India recalibrates its global alliances, Morocco emerges as a gateway to Africa, Europe—and a hedge against growing friction with Washington. When India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh landed in ...

After a busy 2024 marked by presidential elections in Algeria and Tunisia, 2025 is expected to be politically quieter, as Egyptians will be the only ones heading to the polls to elect a new parliament ...

When I first came to Washington in the 1990s, people who worked on North Africa were few and far between. It was considered a backwater; no one ever came to Washington to solve the Western Sahara ...

Scenes of biblical devastation, the dead stacked in the streets and aid for the living too slow in arriving. That is the situation in North Africa where at least 5,100 are dead from flooding in Libya.

The inaugural Korea-Africa Summit concluded on Wednesday with billions of dollars in pledges, expansion of development aid to Africa and signing of lucrative bilateral deals. However, some experts say ...

Egypt earned a confidence-boosting win over Africa Cup of Nations rival Nigeria just days before the tournament begins.

Genome analysis reveals that North African date palms are a hybrid between cultivated date palms from the Middle East and a different, wild species of palm that grows on the island of Crete and in ...

As I was working with the team creating the Dallas Holocaust Museum and Human Rights Center, we decided to tell the story of the Holocaust geographically rather than thematically and chronologically.