With Italy's Maghreb policy in disarray, the Northern League appears bent on making things worse.
Economical, social and political situation of Maghreb women has consistently changed since the last 20 years.
Algerian officials reject claims they have any links with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Most are of African origin, particularly from Muslim parts of the Maghreb and Sahel, where polygamy is accepted.
The international community voiced concerns about al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its expanding presence in Mali.
The international community has voiced concerns about al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its expanding presence in Mali.
Mr Megarief says signals were intercepted between Ansar al-Sharia and al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, an umbrella for jihadist groups in north Africa.
This reflects the strategic vision to maintain stability in the Grand Sahara and in the Sahel region and to enhance Maghreb integration.
However Maghreb media remain steeped in the socially built inequalities and do not adequately reflect the realities of women in the societies.
But governments in the Maghreb are certainly trying to stir Western anxieties in order to get more American and European cash and support.
As a trained historian, and meticulous independent scholar, David was equally bold and original His recently published magnum opus, L'Exil Au Maghreb.
Algerian officials blamed the attack on affiliates of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, which uses northern Mali as an operating base.
Even seasoned observers of Mali and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb admit that it's difficult to unravel the links between Islamist extremists and Tuareg factions.
Altogether, 15 French citizens are now being held by various groups in the region, six of them by groups aligned with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
The Saudi paper Al-Watan says that it is "quite normal to link what is taking place in Mali with events in Somalia, Algeria and the Arab Maghreb".
Chad had said its soldiers, fighting alongside the French troops, killed two top militant commanders, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and veteran Islamist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
El Obeidi also said that extremist militia in Libya were financing militant groups in Mali and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb as well as providing them with logistical support.
Growing out of Algeria's Islamist militancy, al Qaeda in the Maghreb was for years dismissed by Western intelligence as a criminal organization, focused on lucrative smuggling and hostage-taking more than jihad.
The document, found by journalists in Timbuktu and published by a French newspaper, is said to contain advice by the head of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Abdel Malek Droukdel.
El Obeidi said that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb treated the whole region as one theater and was oblivious to the desert borders that divided the countries of the Sahel.
Kidal, 1, 500km (930 miles) north-east of the capital Bamako, was until recently under the control of the Ansar Dine Islamist group, which has strong ties to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
This list will allow the developers' community from the Maghreb, involved in the Miftaah project, to share information and to discuss issues related to the project and the promotion of free software.
Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said the kidnappers were Algerian and operating under orders from Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a senior commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) until late last year.
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Abou Zeid - whose death is still to be confirmed by DNA evidence - is said to be second-in-command of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which is fighting foreign forces in Mali.
But in the weeks after that attack on September 11, several senior U.S. and Libyan officials suggested that members of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb may have been involved, without offering details.
Panetta said al Qaeda's Mali affiliate, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, is not an immediate threat to the U.S. homeland but does pose a risk if it gains a foothold.
Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said the kidnappers were Algerian and operating under orders from Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who was a senior commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) until late last year.
Nigeria's federal government, along with Western intelligence agencies, has long worried that extremist groups in the north may link up with Islamist terrorist groups elsewhere in Africa, in particular with al-Qaeda in the Maghreb.
Naoufal Enhari, Washington correspondent for Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse, Morocco's news service, says the tours expose him to people he would never find on his own, including some who still erroneously believe Mr. Obama is Muslim.
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Although political violence in Algeria has declined since the 1990s, the country has been shaken by by a campaign of bombings carried out by a group calling itself al-Qaeda in the Land of Islamic Maghreb (AQLIM).
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