The Huffington Post is to launch a new French language version of its website for Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria.

Al Huffington Post Maghreb will become the eighth version of the Huffington Post, with editions already launched in the United States, UK, Canada, France, Italy and Japan. A further website is to launch in Germany later this year.

Founder Arianna Huffington made the announcement alongside Alix Etournaud and Fares Mabrouk.