WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 21: In this handout provided by the International Money Fund (IMF),IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (L) greets Somalia's Minister of Finance Mohamud Hassan Suleiman (R) as Somalia's Bank Governor Abdusalam Omer (C) looks on during a meeting with members of MENA, Middle East and North Africa, April 21, 2013 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. The IMF/World Bank Meetings are being held in Washington, DC.
Employees work on a vehicle at the assembly line of Dacia Sandero cars at a factory operated by Somaca in Tangiers, February 21, 2013. Somaca is part of an expanding web of car makers and parts suppliers in Morocco, a heavily agricultural country which hopes to use the auto sector to expand its industrial base. A strong auto industry, exporting cars to Europe, North Africa and further afield, could help to resolve one of the country's main economic weaknesses, its external deficits. Morocco posted a trade deficit of $5.3 billion in the first three months of 2013, and last year obtained a $6.2 billion precautionary credit line from the International Monetary Fund in case of further pressure on its foreign reserves. Picture taken February 21, 2013. To match story MOROCCO-AUTO/INDUSTRY.
Retired Lt. Gen. John Rosa, the president of The Citadel, salutes as he stands next to Sir Peter Westmacott, the British ambassador to the United States, during a wreath laying ceremony at the Seraph Monument on the campus of The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., on Monday, April 15, 2013. The Seraph was a British sub that sailed under the flags of both the United States and Britain for a time during World War II. On one secret mission, the sub spirited Maj. Gen. Mark Clark into North Africa before the allied invasion there in 1942. Clark later served as president of The Citadel.
SHEERNESS, ENGLAND - APRIL 07: A Reed Bunting sits in reeds at Elmley Marshes on April 7, 2013 in Sheerness, England. Many migrant species from continental Europe and North Africa will likely be arriving on UK shores as the prolonged cold climate that has gripped much of Britain recently makes way for milder and more seasonable weather. The RSPB's Elmley Marshes lies on the Isle of Sheppy, and is managed by the Elmley Conservation Trust. The three and a half acre reserve has the highest density of breeding waders in southern England including Avocet and Redshank. The area is also known to be one of the best sites in the UK to view birds of prey which include Peregrine Falcon, Marsh and Hen Harriers, Rough Legged Buzzards and Short Eared Owl.
French citizen Philippe Verdon leaves the office of the examining magistrate in Moroni in this file picture dated on January 6, 2004, following his arrest in Moroni on September 24, 2003 with Franco-Comorian opposition leader Said Larifou and French citizen Pascal Lupard for allegedly having undermined state security at the end of a demonstration in Moroni against the increased cost of rice. A French hostage has been executed in Mali, a man claiming to be a spokesman for Al-Qaeda in North Africa told Mauritania's ANI news agency late on March 19, 2013. A French foreign office spokesman said they were trying to verify the report of the killing of Philippe Verdon, who was kidnapped in November 2011, adding that 'we don't know at the moment' whether it is reliable.
Syrian refugees wait to register their names after their arrival at the Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, March 6, 2013. UNHCR said the number of Syrians quitting their country has increased dramatically since the beginning of the year with more than 400,000 - nearly half the total - leaving since January 1. Most have fled to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt and some to North Africa and Europe, arriving traumatised, without possessions and having lost relatives, it said.
