North Africa

July 24, 2017

Nubians are descendants of an ancient African civilization as old as Egypt itself. Their historical homeland, Nubia, stretches along the Nile covering present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan.

African migrants are reaching Europe with tales of kidnap and torture in Libya

June 29, 2017

Black people say they are being targeted in Libya, where the European Union is spending millions of euros to bolster the country’s capacity for preventing migrants from crossing the Mediterranean to Europe.

Libya’s coast guard is ‘endangering lives’ of migrants trying to reach Europe

May 24, 2017

Updated

05/26/2017 - 1:00pm

During a chaotic rescue operation off Libya’s coast on Tuesday, coast guard vessels fired gunshots in the air and boarded a boat filled with migrants trying to leave.

Trump firing Comey: ‘It helps every authoritarian in the world’

May 10, 2017

Journalists and academics across the globe see alarming parallels between the US and deeply troubled countries whose leaders go after those who investigate them.

The Egyptian ruler Trump calls 'fantastic' is now strengthening his power over the courts

Business, Economics and Jobs

May 09, 2017

Updated

05/15/2017 - 1:15pm

Weeks after Donald Trump welcomed him to the White House and praised his good work, Egypt's Abdul Fattah al-Sisi quietly gave himself new powers that judges and rights groups say threaten whatever Egyptian court independence remains.

These trash pickers used to have miserable jobs. Now they run their own recycling cooperative.

Science, Tech & Environment

April 20, 2017

Fifteen million people around the world have perhaps the worst job imaginable: scavenging junk from the world's dumps. But in Morocco, a group of trash pickers has made the transition to well-paid employees of a new recycling center. And they hope it's an example others can follow.

Now blooming in the desert: Morocco's grand dream of energy independence

Science, Tech & Environment

February 21, 2017

Morocco is building one of the world's largest solar power plants in the desert east of Marrakesh, using a technology that will allow it to generate electricity well past sundown. It's part of an aggressive strategy to become energy independent.

Muslim environmentalists give their religion — and their mosques — a fresh coat of green

January 04, 2017

Morocco is enlisting Islam in its effort to get off fossil fuels, starting with installing solar panels on state-owned mosques. It's part of a broader global effort to bring more Muslims into the fight against climate change.

Arab countries are underwhelmed by Clinton, but most prefer her to Trump

November 04, 2016

A poll in 18 Middle Eastern and North African countries gave Hillary Clinton a whopping 35-point lead. But 47 percent would pick neither her nor Donald Trump if they had a chance to vote.

Lifestyle & Belief

Sudan's pride is a soda that tastes like, well, whatever you think it tastes like

May 16, 2014

When people immigrate to the US, they not only leave behind family and friends, they leave behind the sights, scents and flavors of home. Reporter Hana Baba went back to Sudan to find her favorite soda, unmatched by any in the US.

In job-hungry Italy, neo-Fascists await young migrants

The GroundTruth Project

October 29, 2014

With the youth unemployment rate in Italy at 44 percent, competition for jobs pits native Italians against Eritreans, Sudanese and Syrians fleeing war and repression.

This group wants to ‘defend Europe’ from migrants at sea

July 27, 2017

Arts, Culture & Media

Egypt’s indigenous Nubians continue their long wait to return to ancestral lands

July 24, 2017

Nubians are descendants of an ancient African civilization as old as Egypt itself. Their historical homeland, Nubia, stretches along the Nile covering present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan.

Arab countries are underwhelmed by Clinton, but most prefer her to Trump

November 04, 2016

A poll in 18 Middle Eastern and North African countries gave Hillary Clinton a whopping 35-point lead. But 47 percent would pick neither her nor Donald Trump if they had a chance to vote.

Three years on, an anonymous Tunisian satirist is still waiting for a political revolution in his country

Science, Tech & Environment

December 17, 2013

Updated

12/17/2013 - 2:30pm

Three years ago, a Tunisian architect was blogging anti-government sentiments anonymously from Paris. His views reflected those protesters in Tunisia who ushered in the Arab Spring. Today, the Tunisian blogger and cartoonist is still very much a part of the conversation about the future of his country. But he's still anonymous, and waiting hopefully for real political change to take place in his country.

London commuters deal with a new hardship — clouds of African dust

April 02, 2014

Londoners woke up to a surprise this morning — clouds of Saharan dust. It was an unwelcome complication for busy Londoners heading off to work and school.

Tunisia suffers worst terrorist attack in recent history

June 26, 2015

Dozens of people were killed during an attack on a beach-side resort popular with tourists in Sousse, Tunisia, on Friday — in a string of attacks attributed to ISIS.

Three years after its civil war, Libya is on the brink of another

Business, Economics and Jobs

August 26, 2014

Three years after the revolution that overthrew Moammar Gaddafi, Libya faces an even worse crisis that threatens to destabilize the country and region. The US doesn't want to intervene, but fighting between Islamists and former Gaddafi loyalists has already dragged in other countries.

Even a local bank teller can't be trusted in today's Libya