TUNIS: Tunisia’s moderate Islamists are hoping the genial Beethoven fan they have nominated to run in next month’s presidential elections will break the mold...
TUNIS: Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, who helped shape his country’s democratic transition after a 2011 revolution ended decades of authoritarian...
TANGIER, Morocco: Senegalese migrant Ismail, 26, is back in the forests around the northern Moroccan port of Tangier, not long after being stopped there by...
TRIPOLI: While Libya’s oil lies at the heart of three months of fighting over Tripoli and years of power struggles before that, water is becoming a far bigger...
TRIPOLI: When inflation began eating into her state-paid salary Libyan architect and assistant professor Seham Saleh started selling drawings over the...
MISRATA, Libya: In a warehouse packed with rocket launchers, grenades and rifles in the Libyan city of Misrata, workers sweat in the summer heat as they...
BEN GUERDANE, Tunisia: Standing in his one-room store between tables stacked with brightly colored t-shirts and jeans, Fathi Mars gestures in despair. “If the...
TRIPOLI: Coffee and a pastry covered in chocolate, honey and almonds or a savoury bean stew sandwich with juice or a fizzy drink. What you have for breakfast...
TRIPOLI: With the front lines around Libya’s contested capital Tripoli stalemated, the two rival factions are bringing oil and money supplies into the...
TRIPOLI: Eastern Libya commander Khalifa Haftar has thrown much of his military forces into attacking Tripoli, but the outcome of the offensive could be...
TRIPOLI/PARIS: Military strongman Khalifa Haftar’s intended lightning seizure of Libya’s capital has stalled, but he is unlikely to face pressure from abroad...
TUNIS: Western diplomats sat down for three hours with Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar in his eastern stronghold last month to try to dissuade him from...
BENGHAZI, Libya: The old center of Benghazi lies in ruins but one shopping street has sprung up in the war-ravaged Libyan city, with sportswear and fashion...
TRIPOLI: After a month strolling the gold market in Tripoli, retired public servant Milud Farhat was unable to find any jewelry he could afford for his...
REMADA, Tunisia: Tunisian Zubair Abdel-Moula lost his work selling smuggled fuel on the streets of a poor southern town after the government tightened...
TRIPOLI/TUNIS: Residents of Tripoli emerging from their homes to take advantage of a cease-fire between armed groups noticed one thing straight away. The...
TUNIS: Tunisia will raise fuel prices in the coming days but hold off increasing public wages this year to meet terms of the International Monetary Fund for...
SOUTHERN BADIA, Iraq: On a former battlefield of the 1991 Gulf War, deep in Iraq’s southern desert, a Kuwaiti investor is looking to grow 100,000 date palms...
TRIPOLI, Libya: With two brothers in jail, the family house gone and her papers lost in the battle for Benghazi, Fatma is finding it hard to restart her life...
BASRA, Iraq: When Iraqi merchant Jabar Mohamed was growing up in the southern port city of Basra, he liked to watch boats gliding along a canal lined with...
UMM AL-ARAIS, Tunisia: Young men block the entrance of a Tunisian phosphate mine, halting exports as they demand jobs in a conflict that is exacerbating an...
RABAT/MARRAKECH, Morocco: Moroccans risking their lives scraping coal from abandoned mines have listened to local officials, the Mining Ministry and a close...
SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia: Shouting slogans and holding up placards outside a government office in the impoverished Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid, university...
TUNIS: Tunisia plans to launch long-awaited reforms to reduce its chronic budget deficit, but the measures could harm investment if the government imposes new...
TRIPOLI: In a square behind Libya’s central bank, black-market dealers, some of them armed, carry small plastic bags filled with dollars and larger ones with...