Magharebia is an AFRICOM

United States Africa Command

The United States Africa Command is one of nine Unified Combatant Commands of the United States Armed Forces, headquartered at Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany. It is responsible for U.S. military operations and military relations with 53 African nations – an area of responsibility covering all...

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North Africa

North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, linked by the Sahara to Sub-Saharan Africa. Geopolitically, the United Nations definition of Northern Africa includes eight countries or territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia, and...

. Online since Oct 2004 Magharebia is the only regional website that publishes content identically in three languages; Arabic, English & French. Magharebia allows visitors to comment on its articles and translates visitor contributed comments into Arabic, English & French.

It covers the topics of sports, politics and business as well as other topics. Magharebia focuses on Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania. It has provided comprehensive coverage of Maghreb news events such as the 11Dec2007 attacks in Algeria

Magharebia added a discussion forum in May 2009 called Zawaya that features opinions by panelists from the Maghreb on various topics.