North Africa

North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of Africa. Geopolitically, the United Nations definition of Northern Africa includes seven countries and territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara. Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, often Mauritania and Western Sahara form the Maghreb, while Egypt and Sudan comprise the Nile Valley (so named after the Nile River, which has two tributaries; the White Nile and Blue Nile). Egypt is a transcontinental country because of the Sinai Peninsula, which geographically lies in West Asia. North Africa also includes a number of Spanish possessions (Ceuta and Melilla and tiny Spanish islets off the coast of Morocco). The Canary Islands and the Portuguese Madeira Islands, in the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of the African mainland, are sometimes included in considerations of the region.

The distinction between North Africa and much of Sub-Saharan Africa is historically and ecologically significant because of the effective barrier created by the Sahara Desert for much of modern history. From 3500 BC, following the abrupt desertification of the Sahara due to gradual changes in the Earth's orbit, this barrier has culturally separated the North from the rest of the continent. As the seafaring civilizations of the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Muslims and others facilitated communication and migration across the Mediterranean Sea, the cultures of North Africa became much more closely tied to Southwestern Asia and Europe than Sub-Saharan Africa. The Islamic influence in the area is also significant, and North Africa is a major part of the Islamic world.

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How to use up old bread in a brilliantly fruity North African cake – recipe

The Observer 26 Jan 2025
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Edmond exposes and expunges 'the good, the bad and the ugly' of its past as a sundown town

The Oklahoman 26 Jan 2025
The area is north of Second Street to Ayers, and east of Chowning Avenue to Bryant, near the University of Central Oklahoma ... "In the 1910s and the 1920s, there was a large migration of African Americans who were leaving the South and heading north.

Reeves ‘happy’ to look at UK joining pan-European trade area

AOL 26 Jan 2025
EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic this week suggested Britain could join the PEM, which allows for tariff-free trade of goods across Europe, as well as some North African and Levantine nations ... .

Reeves: I’m absolutely happy to be looking at joining EU customs deal

AOL 26 Jan 2025
EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic this week suggested Britain could join the PEM, which allows for tariff-free trade of goods across Europe, as well as some North African and Levantine nations ... Nigel Farage, Reform UK Leader,  said ... .

Reeves: I'm absolutely happy to be looking at joining EU customs deal

The Daily Telegraph 26 Jan 2025
EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic this week suggested Britain could join the PEM, which allows for tariff-free trade of goods across Europe, as well as some North African and Levantine nations ... Nigel Farage, Reform UK Leader, said ... Show comments ... .

UN urges Libya to arrest war crimes suspect sent home by Italy

The New Arab 26 Jan 2025
Under a deal with the North African country dating from 2017 and renewed under Italy's current hard-right government, Rome was to provide funding and training to the Libyan coastguard ... ....

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The Call 26 Jan 2025
troops and soldiers from the Southern African Development Community Mission, also known as SAMIDRC. North Korea says it tested cruise missile system and vows 'toughest' response to US ... target the North.

Could threat of Trump tariffs push UK further away from EU?

RTE 26 Jan 2025
When Joe Biden became president in 2020, his first foreign visit was to the United Kingdom ... Or is there a choice to make? ... The PEM allows for tariff free trade among European and North African countries through common rules of origin ... Read more. ... .

This spiced Moroccan red tea is a warming, tingling elixir

The Peninsula 26 Jan 2025
"If couscous or a tagine symbolizes Morocco on the plate, then mint tea does so in the glass,” Jeff Koehler wrote in the "North African Cookbook.” "Mint tea starts and ends a day, is sipped as a ...

DR Congo: Civilians at Risk as M23 Approaches Goma

Human Rights Watch 25 Jan 2025
... sources in Goma on January 23-24 who described fighting near the towns of Sake to the west and Kibumba to the north, and the deployment of UN and Southern African forces to block the M23’s advance.

Shettima Meets WEF President in Davos, Seeks Collaboration with World Body

This Day 25 Jan 2025
Nigeria has canvassed closer collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to foster economic development and growth in the country and on the African continent ... On the African Atlantic Gas ...

Is Nutrition Education in Schools the Game-Changer We Need?

Daily News Egypt 25 Jan 2025
Amna, like many adolescent girls in North Africa, struggled with her weight ... A study published last year in the “Nutrients” journal indicates that young North Africans face a higher-than-average overall under-nutrition prevalence.

My first letter to the President

B & FT Online 25 Jan 2025
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Super Eagles Avoid Morocco, Senegal, Egypt, Algeria, CIV in AFCON Draw

This Day 25 Jan 2025
Three-time African ... The North African country was handed the hosting right for the 2015 finals, but ducked at the eleventh hour in the midst of the ebola scare across some nations in the continent.

Congo repels overnight rebel advance on Goma city, say sources

Hindustan Times 25 Jan 2025
Three South African servicemen killed, says union ... In recent days, North Kivu's military governor was killed on the front line. Meanwhile, three South African servicemen were killed and 14 more were ...

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