North Africa

Le Point of France: Mr. Prime Minister, North Africa has been experiencing tremendous changes since the beginning of the year.

The epicentres of these quakes have so far been seen across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and other parts of the globe.

In the case of an attack on Libya, a fourth war theater would be opened up in North Africa, with the risk of military escalation.

He said it would be wrong to draw comparison between the situations in the Middle East and north Africa and that of China.

We have no idea how the string of revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa this year is going to turn out.

France, long a symbol of colonialist oppression in North Africa, looked once again like the hated imperial power it had formerly been.

Had the Axis powers finished off the British in north Africa first, they could have attacked Russia from the south as well as the east.

They were from India, Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and yet they were Harvard students, Stanford students, Rice students.

Investors will also be keeping half an eye on what happens in North Africa and the Middle East over the next week as in recent weeks.

High food prices have been a contributing factor to the recent wave of social unrest across North Africa and the Middle East.

These all seem to be steps intended towards creating a regional bloc in the Middle East and North Africa.

What might be the effects of a more general supply crisis in the Middle East and north Africa?

Born in Algeria, he studied in Carthage, Rome and Milan before returning to North Africa to found a monastery.

Now, that bank could invest up to three and a half billion dollars in the Middle East and North Africa.

The fight for freedom in the Middle East and north Africa seems to be spreading.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said some at the meeting felt NATO should take its lead from the U. N. and countries around North Africa.

FAO has predicted that the H5N1 strain might find its way into the Middle East, North Africa and East and West Africa, she said.

He took many photos of the wide tracts of desert in North Africa.

Thousands of Muslims from North Africa to the Middle East to Southeast Asia have turned out to demonstrate against this movie.

Old house in Sidi-Bou-Said, the blue and white small town in Tunisia, Mediterranean coast, North Africa.

Its location and rich cultural traditions make it one of the hottest tourist destinations in North Africa today.

Each of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa will face unique challenges, which will have to be addressed on their own terms.

Like the previous game, it will focus on Medieval warfare, religion and politics in Europe, North Africa and Southwest Asia.

The U. S. response to events in the Middle East and North Africa needs to be guided by three key tenets of effective diplomacy.

We tell you that the group movements in North Africa and the Middle Eastern governments are part of this 'wind of change'.

The worst outcome would be for Europe and north Africa, both losing relative weight in the world, to reinforce one another's decline.

As the year proceeds, firms will recover some of the ground lost to snowstorms and falling confidence from crises in North Africa and Japan.

In Egypt and North Africa, 'no-one knows who will come to power, ' he said.

But most of France's Jewish families came two or three generations ago from North Africa.

What became known as the Arab Spring uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East ousted the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia.

Over the next 12 years he traveled in Europe and North Africa, sketching tourists in cafes and working odd jobs.

Cue the unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, and crude has now jumped to over $110 in London trading.

TO RUN short of fuel, as Field-Marshal Rommel discovered in 1942, can be fatal to a military campaign in north Africa.

similar to the common teasel and similarly used; widespread in Europe and North Africa and western Asia; naturalized in United States.

To this end, the company's Middle East and North Africa division has been handing out cut-size business cards.

during the war he had manned weather stations, both balmy and bracing, in Malta, North Africa and Shetland.

For the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, one of the world's most water-scarce regions, this challenge is far greater.

But the crackdown this year appears to be even harsher in the wake of the pro-democracy uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.

In North Africa it is served as a soup to which pieces of bread are added.

The only African country previously to commit to a high-speed line is Morocco, in North Africa.

Turkey and southern Europe have reduced the export of steel pricing, the price to make it more competitive market in North Africa.

In 1992, the aircraft in which he was flying over north Africa broke in two during a crash landing.

Economists believe that oil prices would still be above $100 even if peace broke out in North Africa and the Middle East.

As the events in the Middle East and north Africa highlight, the risk of a major supply oil disruption is there.

But generally, the trends that start in Egypt have historically spread across the MENA region, the Middle East and North Africa region.

The consortium stresses, though, that power generated by solar fields in North Africa would be used by North Africans as well as Europeans.

We would like to say that democracy is coming to the Middle East and North Africa, but there are good reasons to curb our optimism.

But many in the Middle East and North Africa saw America's support of the protest movements across the region as uneven.

Recent political unrest in North Africa and the Middle East strikingly coincided with rising food prices as well.

Berlusconi had campaigned on a law-and-order agenda with a hard line on illegal immigration from North Africa.

The sudden pace at which revolutionary fires swept across North Africa took the world by surprise: It was a hopeful Arab Spring for many.

Mahle spent most of her 14 years as a spy in the Persian Gulf, the Occupied Territories and North Africa.

Brown, was secretly grieving over the loss of a son, who as an Army pilot had recently been killed in North Africa.

Today one can find of (North Africa), of New Zealand, and of Taiwan with facial tattoos.

For decades, market economies have been growing in the Middle East and North Africa, albeit in the shadows of the law.

Anti-government protests continued this week in several countries across the Middle East and North Africa.

They are the same element which made such a fuss over North Africa.

On average, every year or two, a new oil or gas pipeline opens up under the Mediterranean, connecting North Africa to Europe.

Without delay the French local officials named General Girard as the temporary administrator of North Africa to succeed Darlan.

EU's economic and military security's implementation in north Africa is a case study of EU's security strategy.

It reads: "School courses should recognise in particular the positive role of the French presence overseas, notably in north Africa. "

During the North Africa campaign, whichever side had air superiority had the upper hand.

Yet as the chaos in North Africa has grown over the past month, investors have largely shunned the dollar and sought shelter elsewhere.

Both sides also exchanged views on the situations in West Asia and North Africa as well as other international and regional issues.

The aim is to weaken and change the old states of the Middle East and North Africa to make way for integration.

He knows that while massive corruption isn't the only grievance of the revolutionaries in North Africa and the Middle East, it's a big one.

they formed an arc of instability from Belarus in the north-east, round the Caucasus and along North Africa to Morocco.

The majority of its operations are in Europe, in the North Sea and Germany, and north Africa.

For too long, the US and its allies propped up autocrats for the sake of stability in the Middle East and north Africa.

The economies of the Middle East and north Africa have no such lodestar.

The other is the Silk Road on the sea, from West Asia, North Africa, and East Africa to Guangzhou and Quanzhou in the southeast of China.

More damaging may be reports from diplomats in north Africa, which underline what had previously been just savage gossip.

Christian prelate and martyr who led Christians in North Africa during persecution by the Roman emperors Decius and Valerian.

It is not for nothing that she is today wooed alike by both the sole superpower as well as states in Central Asia or North Africa.

President Obama discussed the political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa in a speech Thursday in Washington.

The prospect of a stable, friendly, oil-producing friend in North Africa also has its appeal.

Over lunch at the Justus Lipsius building, the 27 EU heads of government were due to hold an emergency debate on north Africa.

Investigators were trying urgently to find out whether the bombers had contact with Al Qaeda operatives, possibly in North Africa.

A report by Standard Chartered, The End of Cheap Food, said North Africa and the Middle East have already hit the buffers.

The unfolding situation across the Middle East and North Africa will remain in focus next week.

Two features have long set the Middle East and North Africa apart within the contemporary political universe.

Web sites are blocked throughout the Persian Gulf and North Africa based on objectionable content and this hasn't created much of a furor .

We're talking about democracies in Europe, dictatorships across much of North Africa.

Most regimes in the Middle East and north Africa have tried to remain stable by cutting off their citizens from the modern world.

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor suggests that rates of entrepreneurship are particularly low in the Middle East and north Africa.

North Africa's Sahara desert Bedouins have a strange custom, they are nomads, the camel is known as a good support.

The Middle East and north Africa, which together are home to about one in five of the world's Muslims, trail a very distant second.

SIEGEL: And the Maghreb, North Africa we hear about less in this country in terms of plots.

North Africa has a small population relative to the size of its deserts.

Affected by the political unrest in Middle East and North Africa, business of China's contracted projects obviously declined.

As the Arab Spring spread across North Africa and the Middle East, Syrian youth began learning about the role of social media in it.

High unemployment was a factor in protests in Spain, uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.

small nocturnal jumping rodent with long hind legs; of arid parts of North Africa and Asia.

They fought their way south into the Middle East, west across North Africa, and eventually sailed to America from Gibraltar.

My wife definitely wants to go to North Africa for a holiday this year, but I've got mixed feelings about it.

The first Silent Striders hailed from North Africa and the Middle East , and much of the tribe wears that cast upon their faces .

The Ottomans also have power over the whole of the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

European Democracy Promotion in North Africa: Limits and Prospects by Richard Gillespie and Laurence Whitehead.

Latin was once the shared language over a vast area, but that was only in Europe and North Africa.

Optimists argue that democratic transitions in the Middle East and north Africa could transform the region's lousy economies (see chart).

So, more speculatively, will the idea of generating solar power in north Africa and transmitting it to Europe.

Desertec would apparently move power from North Africa to Europe with a series of high-voltage cables buried deep under the Mediterranean.

Afro-Asiatic languages Arabic are Semitic languages, the main passage in the Middle East and North Africa region.

They also exchanged views on regional and international hotspot issues, including the situations in West Asia and North Africa.

It is in the interest of the region and the world to promote peace, stability, development and prosperity in west Asia and north Africa.

1Huge dust storms blow out over the oceans from dry parts of North Africa and central Asia.

They lived mostly in Belgium, England, Germany, North Africa and the United States.

Different peoples of North Africa, in Morocco and Algeria, especially the Berbers also celebrate midsummer even today.

As unrest moved across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), oil prices jumped.

Bad weather dragged down activity early in the year and political instability in North Africa and the Middle East boosted oil prices.

Foreign investors worry about corruption, mismanagement and security problems across North Africa and the Middle East.

A shantytown on the outskirts of a city, especially in France or North Africa.

Farther away, extremists in Europe and North Africa continue to covet bin Laden's blessing and the al-Qaeda brand name.

Mainly in southern waters of the Italian peninsula, North Africa, Mediterranean countries have a small amount of the distribution.

Three months later, American forces joined with Montgomery's British troops to force the Germans in North Africa to surrender.

It's suggested that the meeting should issue a statement on the situation in West Asia and North Africa. What is China's attitude?

Palaearctic The biogeographic realm comprising Europe, northern Asia and North Africa.

Two species of antelopes in desert regions of North Africa are additionally in dire conservation status now: the Dama Gazelle and the Addax.

The scale of the violence contrasts markedly with North Africa's largely peaceful uprisings.

Energy: German-Algerian consortium Desertec breaks ground on $500 billion concentrated solar power grid spanning North Africa.

One plan is to site such plants in desert regions of north Africa, and to transport the electricity generated to Europe.

On 14 November 1943, the USS Iowa was on her way to North Africa, carrying Roosevelt to the summit meeting.

Several thousand Tunisian migrants arrived on Lampedusa, a small Italian island off north Africa.

a republic in North Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum.

In much of southern Europe and north Africa, the "thumbs up" sign doesn't mean "yes" or "super" , but in fact means "sit on this" .

However, remittances dropped more than expected in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East and North Africa.

It is found near Cairo in Egypt, in North Africa. It was a tomb for kings of long ago.

But now this strange customs can only be met in North Africa.

A penetrating sandstorm or dust storm with violent winds, occurring chiefly in Arabia, North Africa, and India.

One concern is security as the pipeline could a target for Tuareg rebels and Al-Qaeda in North Africa.

In the spirit of protest that has swept across North Africa and the Middle East, it appears that Angolan people have found some inspiration.

But while the colony of Kyrene in north Africa could hold their own even against the Pharaoh, the Ionian Greeks were in submission.

Political uncertainty in North Africa and Middle East triggered hedge funds to liquidate that spread.

Few can claim to have predicted today's events in the Middle East and North Africa.

Recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa remind us that the pursuit of liberty endures.

The issue has been at the forefront of news coverage over the past few months as unrest has roiled the Middle East and North Africa.

UNHCR appealed to other governments in North Africa and Europe to keep land, air and sea borders open to people fleeing Libya.

Mr Mobius says recent instability in the Middle East and north Africa region may provide buying opportunities.

The volcanic island of El Hierro sits on a tectonic hot spot in the Atlantic Ocean off of North Africa and Spain.

His father, who died in 1998, fought with tanks in North Africa and apparently "loved the war" .

More generally, China's presence in North Africa is considered by Washington to constitute an intrusion.

These range from treks around Mont Blanc to an ascent of North Africa's highest mountain, Mount Toubkal.

They may also wonder why the Middle East and North Africa have such inegalitarian social structures in the first place.

Gadhafi's weapons caches already pose a long-term threat not just to Libya but to other states in North Africa, including Tunisia and Egypt.

Analysts speak of worries that al-Qaida activity in North Africa and the Sahel could spread to northern Nigeria and affect the UK.

So, with luck, a belt of countries across north Africa should now see democracies gradually entrenched.

North Africa will advise other regions on drug manufacture, whilst eastern Africa will share its knowledge of livestock research technology.

Not all results were positive in the new report, with Middle East and North Africa fund-raising numbers plummeting.

Pump prices are soaring much faster than analysts expected as rebellions sweep across North Africa and the Middle East.

When the Fatimid dynasty rose to power in North Africa, its caliphs perfected the art of the propaganda feast.

That does not stop southern EU members from seeking more aid for north Africa.

De la Granville, who has served in Brussels and Madrid, is a specialist on European affairs and North Africa.

Muslim traders also exported as many as 17 million slaves to the coast of the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Societies in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean are much more polygynous than the Muslim nations in the Middle East and North Africa.

The military campaign directed against Libya is intent upon excluding China from North Africa.

Libya is North Africa's most prosperous country, given its tremendous oil wealth and small population.

In Africa, average penetration stands at more than a third of the population, and in north Africa it is almost two-thirds.

Spain flora species is a combination of Mediterranean, Central Europe and North Africa.

Observers may wish to ask ourselves, can do something to change their own country with similar economic situation in North Africa.

For this reason the restive youth of China and Oman are different from those of north Africa.

Italy consumes 32 percent of Libya's oil output and it handles much of the trade between North Africa and the rest of Europe.

Traditional handwork wool blanket belle-belle, Tunisia, North Africa, Photo by kaka.

This would also include donkey and goat meat destined for the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.

Gold has had a topsy-turvy year so far, but the events in the Middle East and North Africa have given goldbugs a new reason to buy.

Pray for governments in North Africa to use wisdom in dealing and negotiating with terrorists.

We wish we could say that democracy is coming to the Middle East and North Africa, but there are good reasons to curb our optimism.

Bougainvillea in Sidi-Bou-Said, a blue and white town in Tunisia, Mediterranean coast, North Africa.

It's true that the most recent spike in oil prices was precipitated by unrest in the Middle East and North Africa.

iris with purple flowers and evil-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa.

Oil should remain excessively volatile as the situation unwinds in North Africa.

The contortions are more theatrical the closer they live to north Africa.

The biggest car factory in North Africa has been officially opened in Morocco by the French firm Renault.

Recent uprisings in the Mideast and North Africa are just one example of external threats to energy supplies.

I hope to meet the couple who ran the hostel where I lived, which catered for workers from across Europe and North Africa.

Unrest in North Africa and the Middle East has pushed oil prices back into the news.

France has a very large African minority, many of whose families originally came from French colonies in North Africa.

The emergence of pro-democracy movements in North Africa prompts us to also carefully reconsider how we think about and measure governance.

The tunnel will run beneath the Strait of Gibraltar , which separates Spain from North Africa.

Common scops owl is found throughout Southern Europe, Central Asia and in some parts of North Africa.

From 2001 to 2004 Bonino was a visiting professor in Cairo, supporting humanitarian issues in the Middle East and North Africa.

Valens remained in control of the eastern provinces, while Valentinian I I was given Italy and North Africa.

The move comes as oil-rich but food-poor countries in the Middle East and north Africa explore similar options.

In North Africa in January 1943, the intelligence officer of the 10th Panzer Division reported on a "new American antitank weapon" .

Egypt is the biggest of the nations hit by recent protests in North Africa and the Middle East.

Dahomey Amazons : this unit is available when holding territory in North Africa.

From the fifties onwards, the price of assorted national egoisms for any kind of progress in the Middle East and North Africa has been high.

Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, only Israel's Arab citizens enjoy real democratic rights.

North Africa will experience the worst effects, with 80% of its crops losing productivity to 2050 and beyond.

As we have seen in the Middle East and North Africa, it will be about social accountability, government transparency, civil society.

This is the second Friday Iraqis have protested, joining a wave of anti-government protests across the Middle East and North Africa.

Winters are now so mild that storks have stopped their annual migration to north Africa.

highly venomous viper of North Africa and southwest Asia having a horny spine above each eye.

Sahara desert is the natural barrier between North Africa and Central Africa.

Black, possibly an Arab from North Africa, covered by a thin layer of dust.

This is now changing as youth-inspired uprisings spread to other countries in North Africa and the Middle East.

During the 1940s German troops in North Africa experimented with camel dung to cure dysentery.

Surely not. It should be the saber of tribe around North Africa or Sudan.

The uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East began, as Mr. Obama noted, without U. S. political help.

The original was more than 4, 000 miles (10, 200 kilometers) of trade routescrossing Asia and into southern Europe and north Africa.

British troops opened their first major offensive in North Africa during World War II.

The civil unrest in the Mideast and North Africa stemmed in part from joblessness in the region.

They have come to the North Africa in the hope of finding treasure.

His life is four times the farthest sail to north Africa, but its career earned him "navigator Henry" historical title.

Germany's Gastarbeiter scheme began in 1955, drawing workers first from southern Europe and north Africa and then Turkey.

wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns.

The famously belligerent Denis Healey also served in Italy and north Africa.

Along with the Middle East and North Africa, the Japanese disaster has also given gold a fillip.

Hailing from North Africa, many Berbers are now settled in the lands of Moorish Spain.

A traditional style gate at the highway, Tunisia, North Africa.

FAITH LAPIDUS: Kilims are a kind of tapestry made across North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey and the Caucasus.

It also wants to boost its presence in North Africa in Algeria, Morocco and Egypt.

Owners and their camels in Sahara Desert, Tunisia, North Africa.

ubiquitous in all but very acid soil; most of Europe (except Arctic Caucasus) and North Africa.

The French Government would have retired to North Africa.

Students in this major study one or more of the Semitic languages, native to North Africa and Southwest Asia.

window and wall in a mosque, Tunisia, North Africa.

Growth in the Middle East and North Africa appears least affected among developing regions, now projected to be 3. 3 percent in 2009.

Our position in West Asia and North Africa is not improving.

Islamic style tiles wall in mosque, Tunisia, North Africa, Photo by kaka.

A row escalated between France and Italy over migrants from north Africa.

Crude oil broke above the $100 per barrel level as tensions in the Middle East and North Africa mounted.

More than 5, 000 people fled to the little Italian island of Lampedusa, which is closer to north Africa than to Sicily.

Bedroom in Berbers' home, in desert in Tunisia, North Africa, Photo by kaka.

Roman mosaic bathing pool, Tunisia, North Africa, Photo by kaka.

The flight campaign in North Africa saw the Falco fly for 14 hours with a payload weight of 45 kilograms during a night flight.

But the most ambitious solar project is in north Africa.

Q: According to the report of the South China Morning Post, al-Qaeda threatens retaliation against the Chinese in North Africa.

Yemen and Jordan have the most severe water shortages in the Middle East and North Africa.

Dissidents in the Middle East, North Africa and other countries are increasingly using the Internet, social media and mobile phones.

The US depends on co-operation with Algerian intelligence in tracking groups such as al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Arab north Africa).

In other regions, including Asia and North Africa, even greater headway has been made.

Saloon in Berbers' home, in desert in Tunisia, North Africa, Photo by kaka.

In the Near East and North Africa, the prevalence of hunger is low, but it is increasing.

The Middle East and north Africa produce more than one-third of the world's oil.

Death stalker scorpions are spread in North Africa and Middle East.

In the Middle East and North Africa, nothing analogous occurred.

We had an adventurous but excitingtrip through the dark forest in north Africa last year.

In north Africa, SocGen aims to double the number of clients and increase the number of branches by 60 per cent by 2015.

The "Arab Spring" in the Middle East and North Africa has raised hopes and dreams. But can it raise money to invest in a better future?

Jar dance, and belly dance on table, Tunisia, North Africa, Photo by KaKa.

I remember in particular two young American girls I once met in North Africa.

Roman mosaic wall in museum, Tunisia, North Africa, Photo by kaka.

The Middle East and North Africa are being swept by popular uprisings.

"There is a Berber renaissance taking place across north Africa, " enthuses Mounir Kejji, a Moroccan Berber campaigner.

But al-Qaeda may be growing stronger in north Africa.

the Mediterranean coast of North Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates.

His beat stretched from north Africa to Afghanistan.

Europe was also the destination chosen by more than 85 per cent of people leaving North Africa.

The decision to invade North Africa necessitated a complete reversal in our thinking.

Sunset in Sahara desert, Tunisia, North Africa.