<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - North Africa</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa/northafrica?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</link><description>North Africa</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Al-Jazeera Puts Focus on Reform]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45555-2005May8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45555-2005May8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DOHA, Qatar  --  From its headquarters, dispersed among cramped trailers, air-conditioned tents and a squat box of a building on a dusty lot crawling with stray cats, an unlikely ally has emerged in this desert capital for the Bush administration's new Middle East democracy campaign  --  al-Jazeera.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sudan's Unbowed, Unbroken Inner Circle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32911-2005May3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32911-2005May3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ KHARTOUM, Sudan  --  The men who control Africa's largest country  --  the key architects of the conflict in Darfur  --  hail from two tiny, interwoven Arab tribes. Many of them grew up together and graduated from Khartoum University. They often sit together in cafis beside the Nile, bickering about politics and religion over endless cups of sweet tea.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attacks Wound 9 People in Cairo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28711-2005May1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28711-2005May1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CAIRO, April 30  --  Two veiled women shot at a tour bus in Cairo after a man  --  the brother of one shooter and the fiance of the second  --  blew himself up as he leapt off a bridge during a police chase Saturday. All three attackers died and nine people, four of them foreigners, were wounded in an apparent revival of violence against Egypt's vital tourism industry.]]></description><author> Lee Keath</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[State Dept. Defends Estimate Of Deaths in Darfur Conflict]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18630-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18630-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The State Department posted on its Web site yesterday an internal analysis of the death toll in Sudan's Darfur region since violence broke out two years ago, providing an analytical explanation for figures cited by Deputy Secretary Robert B. Zoellick that had stirred outrage by human rights groups.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain Keeps a Vigilant Eye on Al Qaeda Threat]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2944-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2944-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Although 75 members of al Qaeda have been arrested in Spain, the terrorist group's efforts to recruit followers among Muslim residents of that country remains a threat, Spanish Foreign Minister    Miguel Moratinos  told Washington Post reporters and editors last week.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrorism Tempers Shift to Openness]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61476-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61476-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em> Second of two articles</em><br>RABAT, Morocco  --  They have testified in community centers,  schoolhouses and municipal halls, and on live television. They have been withered mothers, grieving grandchildren, scarred old men  --  a diverse parade of ordinary Moroccans bound by a common...]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock and Steve Coll</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Rice's Deputy, a Leading Role]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59535-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59535-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Robert B. Zoellick has a deep background in both economics and politics, but cutting trade deals in President Bush's first term appears to have molded him into a pragmatic diplomatic troubleshooter.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's Looking at Morocco]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56447-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56447-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Q    My fiance and I are looking for a tour package to Morocco. Any recommendations? ]]></description><author> Andrea Sachs</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envoy Visits Darfur Camp To Stress U.S. Commitment]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56794-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56794-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick pressed officials in Khartoum to quickly implement a peace accord with the south and to take concrete steps to end the attacks in Darfur.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Presses Sudan for Action]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53953-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53953-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/africa/northafrica</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick pressed the Sudanese government Thursday to take specific steps that would show it is cooperating to halt violence in the western region of Darfur.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item></channel></rss>