Tunisia’s president has won a second term in an election marred by repression.
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Findings from a new study challenge the traditional view that a heavy reliance on plant-based diets started only with the advent of agriculture.
By externalising migration control the EU endangers lives, props up dictators, and empowers far-right parties.
Tunisia has failed to capitalise on the heritage tourism potential of the ancient city and its natural surroundings.
New research reveals our understanding of dust’s role in the environment is far from settled.
Oceanic dispersal of dinosaurs between Europe and Africa shows how low-probability, high-impact events drive evolution.
The Sahara Desert is green and vegetated every 21,000 years. A climate model shows why.
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we hear about the importance of Marrakech’s old medina to Islamic heritage and what’s happening to its network of traditional artisans.
Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike those of any known reptile.
Climate models suggest North Africa will get drier in future. But its caves tell a different story.
With Morocco, there’s stronger bureaucracy, and in Libya, authorities are weaker. But, as a scholar who has worked in both countries explains, the results are the same: not enough aid getting through.
Better monitoring of groundwater is important for sustainable management.
Sudan’s university students have played a key role in liberation struggles.
Freedom of expression was the one remaining gain of Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, but it is now severely threatened by a populist president.
Violence in Sudan threatens to throw the troubled nation into chaos. A scholar of the region explains what is going on and what’s at stake.
The Muslim Brotherhood once held the reins of power in Egypt. Now it faces internal splits, government repression and dwindling support.
People across much of North Africa were subject to racist laws and suffering at the hands of European powers during the Second World War.
Fossils of a giant killer mosasaur have been discovered, alongside the fossilised remains of its prey.
The African continent is a rich repository for dinosaur fossils, including teeth and track marks.
Former president Bourguiba’s standing as father of Tunisian feminism has come under scrutiny.
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