The North Africa Journal: News


Sirte Liberated, Gaddafi Dead
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Arezki Daoud on 16 October, 2011 02:31:00
 
[By Arezki Daoud | US+508-981-6937]  October 20, 2011 is a big day for the
Libyan people. Nine months after the start of their revolution in the eastern
city of Benghazi, the Libyan people have finally pacified the last bastion of
the Gaddafi clan. Today, the city of Sirte where Muamar Gaddafi was born in 1942
has joinned the likes of Benghazi, Tripoli, Tobruk, and Misrata as free from the
reign of terror of the Gaddafi clan and the revolutionary guards that protected
that family. As for Muamar Gaddafi, officials say he has been killed in a gun
battle.

Tunisian People Fixated on Sakhr El Materi, Imad Trabelsi and First Lady Leila
Ben Ali
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Arezki Daoud on 15 January, 2011 10:07:00
 
Among the figures that angry Tunisians are fixated on is Sakhr El Materi. His
trajectory is becoming shockingly identical to that of Algeria’s disgraced
businessman Abdelmoumen Khalifa. Both young, both inexperienced and both deeply
corrupt, essentially ending in hiding, in the UK for Khalifa and probably in
Dubai for Al Materi.

Deputy Editor Alessandro Bruno to Tour Southern Europe
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The North Africa Journal on 17 December, 2010 07:48:00
 
The North Africa Journal is pleased to announce that Deputy Editor and Senior
Analyst on African and Middle Easters affairs Alessandro Bruno will tour
Southern Europe in the first half of January 2011.

Algeria Adopts a 2009 Budget with a Deficit of more than €2.4 Billion
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The North Africa Journal on 20 January, 2009 04:43:00
 
The Algerian budget for the year 2009 has been drafted on the basis of a barrel
of oil averaging $37.