North Africa

Palestinians react as they watch a live broadcast of the World Cup semifinal soccer match between Morocco and France played in Qatar, in Gaza City, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. 
Sports
As World Cup wraps, Morocco team inspires Arab unity around the world
Sample portions of chicken and kale stew over rice
Food
Maine’s largest school district serves up African-inspired dishes to get more students excited about school lunch
The shoreline of a village on the Greek island of Evia is shown with massive plumes of dark smoke rising in the distance.
Climate Change
Discussion: Climate change and a deepening global health crisis
A devil cartoon sits on shoulder of cartoon image of a president with Arabic script.
Global Cartoons
No joke! How two cartoonists spurred revolution during the Arab uprisings.
A compiliation of images from the Arab uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East
Top of The World
Looking back at a historic time in the Middle East and North Africa
Tunisian protesters demonstrate beneath a poster of Mohamed Bouazizi near the prime minister's office in Tunis, Tunisia, Jan. 28, 2011.
Global Politics
Fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi’s protest inspired the Arab uprisings. A decade later, his sister still mourns.
In this undated photo, trumpet player Will Magid performs at the Showbox Sodo venue in Seattle, Washington.
Music
‘Osmanity’: Ottoman Empire’s founder inspires a new album
Empty sun beds on an empty beach with blue sky
Business, Economics and Jobs
Tourism in Tunisia reopens — with precautions
Older women hold a cartoon graphic depicting Donald Trump and a Turkish tank.
Does US withdrawal leave Syria open to Russia?
Alfred Brownell
Conflict & Justice
This Liberian lawyer risked his life to save West Africa’s last remaining rainforest from palm oil developers
Man on a boat lifting a young child to hand to rescuers
Economics
A year after the Italy-Libya migrant deal: Fewer deaths at sea but persistent abuse on land
Visitors walk around pharaonic artefacts inside the Egyptian Museum
Economics
Tourists are returning to Egypt after years of staying away
US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford is stands at a podium during a press conference.
Conflict
Pentagon looks at stepping up its role in Africa to counter ISIS
Mohamed Zaree giving a talk with the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in Egypt.
Conflict
Meet the winner of the ‘Nobel for human rights’ that Egypt doesn’t want you to know about
A resident looks on from his traditional house at the Nubian Gharb Suheil village, near Aswan, southern Egypt.
Justice
Egypt detains Nubians during a peaceful, singing protest
A man plays music on a traditional musical instrument in the Nubian village of Adindan
Culture
Egypt’s indigenous Nubians continue their long wait to return to ancestral lands
Migrant Offshore Aid Station rescues migrants from a rubber dinghy during an operation in the central Mediterranean
Conflict
This group wants to ‘defend Europe’ from migrants at sea
African migrants arriving in Italy from Mediterranean
Conflict
African migrants are reaching Europe with tales of kidnap and torture in Libya
The Libyan coast guard boards a boat in the Mediterranean while humanitarian groups bring migrants onto their ships.
Conflict
Libya’s coast guard is ‘endangering lives’ of migrants trying to reach Europe
Protesters gather to rally against U.S. President Donald Trump's firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey, outside the White House in Washington, U.S. May 10, 2017.
Global Politics
Trump firing Comey: ‘It helps every authoritarian in the world’
A view of the High Court of Justice in Cairo, Egypt.
Justice
The Egyptian ruler Trump calls ‘fantastic’ is now strengthening his power over the courts
Najat Rabat and Yassine Mazzout used to work picking trash from a landfill outside Morocco's capital. Now they work together at a new recycling cooperative.
Jobs
These trash pickers used to have miserable jobs. Now they run their own recycling cooperative.
A vast array of curved mirrors at the Noor Concentrated Solar Power plant near Ouarzazate, Morocco. The massive facility is part of an agressive effort to develop renewable power in Morocco.
Environment
Now blooming in the desert: Morocco’s grand dream of energy independence
Marrakech’s Koutoubia mosque has soaked up the Moroccan sun for nearly 900 years. Now it also puts those rays to work generating clean electricity with newly installed solar panels.
Environment
Muslim environmentalists give their religion — and their mosques — a fresh coat of green
Donald Trump, at a campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Oct. 26, and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, during a campaign rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Global Politics
Arab countries are underwhelmed by Clinton, but most prefer her to Trump
A street with small businesses, young boy on bicycle
Global Politics
What’s at stake when you tell the US Census you’re Middle Eastern or North African?
A man buys U.S. dollars in a currency exchange in Benghazi, Libya.
Business
Even a local bank teller can’t be trusted in today’s Libya
A member of the force assigned to protect Libya's unity government stands on a road leading to new authority's offices in Tripoli, Libya on March 31.
Conflict
Libya now has three governments, none of which can actually govern
Tunisian fishermen try on life jackets offered by MSF at the end of the training. The fishermen say in general they lack the equipment to cope with boatloads of migrants and refugees in distress.
Global Politics
Tunisian fishermen are trained to be ‘safety nets’ for migrants making a deadly sea crossing
A police officer walks past blood at the Imperiale Marhaba hotel after a gunman opened fire at the beachside hotel in Sousse, Tunisia.
Conflict
Tunisia suffers worst terrorist attack in recent history
A mother embraces her child next to the Tiburtina train station in Rome.
Conflict
Migrants are sleeping on cardboard outside Italian train stations after EU halts their journey north
Fatima Elahmer and her three children, Mohamed, Anoud, and Ali. They've been living in Tunis since last summer.
Conflict
Looking to escape turmoil back home, a Libyan family waits it out in Tunis
MOAS rescuing migrants in November, 2014.
Global Politics
An American millionaire works to rescue migrants off the coast of Italy
A portrait of Bob Marley hangs in a market in Los Angeles
Music
Bob Marley would be 70 now. These may be the reasons Obama paid homage.
One of the tokens that "Johns" in Tunisia use to pay prostitutes.
Development
Prostitutes want Tunisia’s red light districts to get back in business
Supporters of Beji Caid Essebsi, the Nidaa Tounes party leader and presidential candidate, wave flags and shout slogans during a presidential electoral campaign rally in Tunis on November 15, 2014.
Global Politics
Tunisia looks set to move forward by electing a figure from its past
Estella and her four-month-old inside their squat house, which is also the headquarters of CasaPound, Italy's largest neo-Fascist movement. The walls are covered in ultra-nationalist posters.
Global Politics
In job-hungry Italy, neo-Fascists await young migrants
Supporters of the secular Nida Tounes (Call of Tunisia) party movement wave flags and shout slogans during parliamentary elections.
Global Politics
Secular parties won Tunisia’s election, but they may have to govern with Islamists
A young girl plays on the beach in Tripoli, Libya, where many people have turned to the waterfront to try and find relief from power cuts and political chaos.
Conflict
How Libyans beat the heat — and the turmoil in their country
Two men hug during the funeral for Libyan activist Tawfik Bin Saud in Benghazi on September 20, 2014. Tawfik was killed, along with a friend, late on September 19, by unknown gunmen as they were driving home in Libya's eastern coastal city of Benghazi.
Conflict
The death of a teen activist marks a new low in Benghazi’s violence
George makes about a hundred frappuccinos a day for the guests on board a Greek ferry docked in Tobruk, Libya.
Lifestyle
A Greek ferry is home to members of Libya’s parliament and, more importantly, the best frappuccinos in town
Drummer Tony Allen
Music
Can music help stop the tragic shipwrecks of migrants coming from Africa?
The passenger terminal at Tripoli's international airport after recent attacks.
Conflict
Three years after its civil war, Libya is on the brink of another
Lifestyle & Belief
Sudan’s pride is a soda that tastes like, well, whatever you think it tastes like
Libyan congress
Conflict & Justice
This Libyan businessman paints a bleak picture of life in Libya now
Libyan congress
Conflict & Justice
This Libyan businessman paints a bleak picture of life in Libya now
A cyclist wears a mask as he cycles near Buckingham Palace in London April 2, 2014. Britain's Meteorological Office forecast that London would be affected by smog this week, caused by powerful dust storms and strong winds in the Sahara.
Environment
London commuters deal with a new hardship — clouds of African dust
DeAndre Rice (Number 5, with extended arms) scored 47 points in a recent game. He's helped his team, Al Ittihad Tripoli, with the championship this year.
Sports
It’s no March Madness, but former American basketball players are making it big — in Libya
DeAndre Rice (Number 5, with extended arms) scored 47 points in a recent game. He's helped his team, Al Ittihad Tripoli, with the championship this year.
Sports
It’s no March Madness, but former American basketball players are making it big — in Libya
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) at sea last month. US Navy SEALs operating off the Roosevelt seized the oil tanker, Morning Glory, late Sunday in international waters near Cyprus.
Conflict & Justice
The US Navy has seized control of a stateless tanker carrying Libyan oil
A man walks past a wall graffiti regarding the 2014 presidential election in downtown Cairo, February 25, 2014. The graffiti reads: "Ahmed Al Mukhtar - President of Egypt, Your hand with my hand, we can change our country."
Global Politics
Will Egypt’s new, New government return to the old ways?
Global Politics
Three years on, an anonymous Tunisian satirist is still waiting for a political revolution in his country
Albert Camus in 1957.
Global Politics
What Albert Camus can teach us about nation-building
Arts, Culture & Media
U.S. Extends Closure of Some Embassies & Diplomatic Posts
Militants in Mali take hostages in Algeria
Two years after Arab Spring, revolutionary prospects still linger
U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in violent attack on American consulate
Turkey pressures Syria to end crackdown
Osama bin Laden
Global Politics
Osama Bin Laden Killed
Ai Weiwei out of prison, stuck in Beijing