Geography of Africa

An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya early on Dec. 19 after a suspected bomb was found on board, police said.

Navy and police bomb experts were called in to determine if there were any explosives on board the plane, which had 459 passengers and 14 crew members aboard.

Members of Libya's rival parliaments have signed Dec. 17 a U.N.-sponsored deal on forming a unity government, aiming to bring peace to the war-ravaged country.

Novinite is publishing the second of three articles about Morocco, where a group of journalists was invited to spend more than a week in November and get to know a country which is not far from Europe, looks fantastic on tourist billboards and draws millions of visitors every year, but Europeans don't know about it as much as one would expect.

Novinite is publishing the first of three articles about Morocco, where a group of journalists was invited to spend more than a week in November and get to know a country which is not far from Europe, looks fantastic on tourist billboards and draws millions of visitors every year, but Europeans don't know about it as much as one would expect. 

Pope Francis on Monday said Christians and Muslims were "brothers", urging them to reject hatred and violence while visiting a mosque in the Central African Republic's capital which has been ravaged by sectarian conflict. 

The second edition of the "Morocco Days in Bulgaria" begins on November 30 and will last for two weeks until December 13.

The event is organised by the Embassy of Morocco in Bulgaria and will take place in Sofia and Plovdiv.

The opening will be given with the concert "Soul of Morocco" by the famous singer and songwriter Oum in Sofia on November 30.

The 26th Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia, a showcase for Arab and African cinematographers, opened amid heavy security on Nov. 21 in a country rocked this year by deadly jihadist attacks.

They look like they don’t exist, and yet they do.

1) Tianzi Mountains, China

2) The Eye of the Sahara, Mauritania

3) The turquoise ice of Lake Baikal, Russia

4) Deadvlei, Namibia

5) Lake Hiller, Australia

Two Serbian citizens kidnapped in Libya earlier this month are both alive, PM Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday.

Serbian embassy employees Sladjana Stankovic and Jovica Stepic were taken from a convoy of vehicles in the town of Sabratha on November 8.

The World Tourism Organization urged the international community on Nov. 12 to pool its resources to protect travel against terrorism fears that have devastated the industry in Tunisia and Egypt.