People in North Africa

  • Omar Sharif Dies At 83

    EGYPT, 2015/07/12 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Doctor Zhivago' star multiple award-winning actor, Omar Sharif, died on Friday from a heart attack at a Cairo hospital, aged 83, his agent Steve Kenis said according to a BBC statement. Egypt-born Sharif won two Golden Globe awards and an Oscar nomination for his role as Sherif Ali in David Lean's 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia. Before this year, his agent confirmed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Omar Sharif was born on April 10, 1932 as Michel Demetri Chalhoub in Alexandria, Egypt, to a Melkite Catholic family of Lebanese descent. He studied at Victoria College, where he became active in sports and developed interest in theatre and acting. Next obtaining a degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Cairo, he worked for five years in his father's precious wood business before studying acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
  • The European Union (EU) and Tunisia signed an agreement on population

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2014/03/05 The European Union (EU) and Tunisia on Monday signed an agreement on the movement of populations between the Europe and Tunisia. The EU Commissioner in charge of Interior affairs, Mrs Cecilia Malmström, and the Tunisian ambassador to the EU, Tehar Cherif, both read a joint declaration, stating that the agreement is as well meant to promote a common and responsible management of migration -- through the simplification of visa procedures. Mrs. Malmström indicated that the EU will support the Tunisian authorities in their efforts regarding political asylum with a view to establishing a system of protection for refugees and asylum seekers.
  • The Executive Director of United Nations Fund for People Activities (UNFPA), Babatunde Osotimehin,

    MAURITANIA, 2014/01/11 The Executive Director of United Nations Fund for People Activities (UNFPA), Babatunde Osotimehin, begins a two-day visit to Mauritania on Saturday during which he will meet President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and senior government officials. The UNFPA representative in Mauritania, Kodogo Ouedraogo, said on Thursday that Osotimehin would discuss with President Abdel Aziz 'the significant leadership role that the country has to play in the continent to support implementation of strategic options notably those relating to the African continent's development of the post-2015 schedule'.
  • Africa’s demographics are driving global population growth

    AFRICA, 2013/09/15 Sewage spilling into the streets, shacks for homes and shanty towns stretching into the horizon. This is New York in the late 1800s, its grim scenes famously captured by local reporter Jacob Riis, who took chance of newly-invented flash photography to portray the city’s hard scrabble life The same was authentic of London, its own miserable conditions captured by the pen of Charles Dickens. The images conjured are little different to what one finds today across a lot of developing cities, whether Mumbai or Jakarta. And the experience of the New Yorks and Londons shows that a lot of of today’s most liveable cities were once anything but. So, how do cluttered urban sprawls become cities? And how do Africa’s people trends compare to other regions?
  • Algeria's southern unemployed demand oil jobs

    ALGERIA, 2013/04/01 Protests by the unemployed in southern Algeria are raising the specter of rising unrest in the country's sensitive oil regions; Algeria's vast, sparsely populated Sahara only holds 10 % of the country's people but it is home to this North African country's enormous oil and gas reserves - the basis of the entire economy and the source of the government's power. Those who live there claim they aren't benefiting from that wealth, and can't get jobs with the oil companies.