April 08
Tunisia: Tunisia's El Kef City Is Rich in Heritage - Centuries of Cultural Mixing Give It a Distinct Identity
El Kef is a city built into the southern face of Jebel Dyr mountain, which is linked to the High Atlas mountains in the north-western region of Tunisia that borders on Algeria. The… Read more »
March 21
Morocco: Duckbill Dinosaur Discovery in Morocco - Expert Unpacks the Mystery of How They Got There
Why are fossils of duckbill dinosaurs, a North American family, found in North Africa? Read more »
March 08
Tunisia: Oscars 2024 - Four Daughters Is a Tunisian Masterpiece - What Makes the Film Groundbreaking
Four Daughters is the story of a Tunisian family torn apart by an extremist Islamic group. It's won several major documentary awards and is nominated for a Best Feature Documentary… Read more »
February 11
Morocco: Morocco Dinosaur Discovery Gives Clues On Why They Went Extinct
66 million years ago, the last dinosaurs vanished from Earth. We're still trying to understand why. New fossils of abelisaurs - distant relatives of the tyrannosaurs - from north… Read more »
February 06
Africa: Microplastics Found in Nile River's Tilapia Fish - New Study
The Nile is one of the world's most famous rivers. It's also Africa's most important freshwater system. About 300 million people live in the 11 countries it flows through. Many… Read more »
January 28
North Africa: Banksias Are Iconic Australian Plants, but Their Ancestors Actually Came From North Africa
Few plants conjure up the Australian bush better than banksias, whose beautiful flowers are irresistible to honeyeater birds, small marsupials and nature lovers. Read more »
December 19, 2023
Morocco: Morocco's Fabulous Football Year - What's Behind Their Success On and Off the Field
In 2022 Morocco became the first African and Arab national football team to reach a Fifa World Cup men's semi-final; and Wydad AC won the Africa Champions League. The good news… Read more »
December 15, 2023
North Africa: The Sahara Desert Used to Be a Green Savannah - New Research Explains Why
Algeria's Tassili N'Ajjer plateau is Africa's largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world's largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and… Read more »
November 17, 2023
Egypt: Did Napoleon Really Fire At the Pyramids?
Directors of historical feature films face a difficult task. How can they make the characters familiar to an audience without reducing them to caricature? How can they make sure… Read more »
November 20, 2023
Libya: Libyan Desert's Yellow Glass - How We Discovered the Origin of These Rare and Mysterious Shards
The Great Sand Sea Desert stretches over an area of 72,000km2 linking Egypt and Libya. If you find yourself in a particular part of the desert in south-east Libya and south-western… Read more »
November 07, 2023
Egypt: Egypt's President Faces Election Amid Economic Woes
The bitter conflict between Israel and Hamas could not have come at a worse time for Egypt. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former military strongman who seized power in 2013 amid the… Read more »
November 09, 2023
Morocco: Morocco's Artisans Face Uncertain Future After Earthquake
The 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Morocco's Atlas mountains on September 8 killed more than 2,000 people and left thousands more homeless. Parts of the old medina in the… Read more »
October 19, 2023
Algeria: Hamas-Israel Conflict Means Algeria Will Host Palestine's Football Matches - There's a Bigger History
Palestine was about to embark on its 2026 men's Fifa World Cup qualifying campaign when the latest round of Hamas-Israeli conflict broke out, making Palestine's national football… Read more »
October 16, 2023
Egypt: Ancient Egypt Had Far More Venomous Snakes Than the Country Today
How much can the written records of ancient civilisations tell us about the animals they lived alongside? Our latest research, based on the venomous snakes described in an ancient… Read more »
Egypt: Hamas-Israeli Conflict - What's At Stake for Egypt
As the Israeli-Hamas crisis continues, a great deal of focus is shifting to Egypt. Egypt shares a border with both Israel and Gaza - the narrow strip of Palestinian territory which… Read more »
Egypt: Egypt's Rafah Crossing Is a Lifeline to Palestinians Living in Gaza - but Opening It Is Still Unresolved
Israel's siege on the Gaza Strip - after a devastating Hamas attack on Israel - has caused alarm in Egypt. Egypt shares a 12km-long border with Gaza and controls the main exit… Read more »
October 11, 2023
Morocco/Western Sahara: Morocco Will Co-Host the 2030 World Cup - Palestine and Western Sahara Will Be Burning Issues
The 2030 men's football World Cup will be co-hosted by three countries across two continents after Morocco, Spain and Portugal's successful bid was selected by Fifa, the sport's… Read more »
September 25, 2023
Morocco: Giant Sea Lizards - Fossils in Morocco Reveal the Astounding Diversity of Marine Life 66 Million Years Ago, Just Before the Asteroid Hit
Sixty-six million years ago, the Cretaceous period ended. Dinosaurs disappeared, along with around 90% of all species on Earth. The patterns and causes of this extinction have been… Read more »
September 21, 2023
North Africa: Was the Freak 'Medicane' Storm That Devastated Libya a Glimpse of North Africa's Future?
Storm Daniel landed on the Libyan coastal town of Toukrah in the early hours of September 10 and started moving east. Soon the wind was rising and heavy rain falling, forcing… Read more »
September 15, 2023
Morocco: Morocco Earthquake - Why Traditional Earthen Architecture Is Not to Blame for the Destruction Communities Have Endured
The 6.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Morocco on Friday, September 8 has claimed almost 3,000 lives. A further 5,530 people are injured, and the death toll is expected to rise. Read more »
Libya: Libya Dam Collapse Happened Because of Bad Management, Not Bad Weather
More than 11,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands are missing following the catastrophic dam collapse in the eastern Libyan city of Derna on 12 September. The dam… Read more »
September 11, 2023
Morocco: Morocco's Earthquake Wasn't Unexpected - Building Codes Must Plan for Them
More than 2,000 people died when a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco on 8 September. The epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of… Read more »
Morocco: What Caused Morocco's Earthquake? a Geologist Studying the Atlas Mountains Explains
The epicentre of Morocco's devastating earthquake on 8 September was in the High Atlas Mountains, about 71km south-west of Marrakesh. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa,… Read more »
August 31, 2023
Egypt: What Would an Ancient Egyptian Corpse Have Smelled Like? Pine, Balsam and Bitumen - If You Were Nobility
In 1900 - some 22 years before he discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen - British archaeologist Howard Carter opened another tomb in the Valley of the Kings. In tomb KV42, Carter… Read more »
August 29, 2023
Africa: Sahara Space Rock 4.5 Billion Years Old Upends Assumptions About the Early Solar System
In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria. Read more »