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The Casablanca American School- a governance row - 20/06/2012 NAU
The Casablanca American School is divided over the role of its Borad of Governors and the US State Department and American Ambassador Sam Kaplan are involved....
5 marocaines, 6 ressortissants du golf et un français, écroués pour prostitution à Marrakech - 20/06/2012 Emarrakech
Marrakech : Les 12 prévenus ont été déférés ce matin du mercredi, devant le procureur du Roi relevant du tribunal de première instance de la cité ocre. Pour avoir constitué un lieu de débauche et y...
8th Festival of Amazigh Culture: Amazigh heritage honored in Fez 13-15 July 2012 - 20/06/2012 NAU
The eighth annual Festival of Amazigh Culture will be held in Fez from 13 to 15 July 2012. "Mother Tongue and Diaspora" is the theme of this edition....
Mubarak Close to death - 20/06/2012 NAU - Agencies
Following a heart attack and stroke in Tola Prison where he was incarcerated since his sentence to life imprisonment the former president was move to the Maadi military hospital where he is in...
Talks with Mali rebels are underway - 19/06/2012 NAU - Agencies
The MNLA are reported to have held talks with the Ecowas spokesman President Blaise Campaoré of Burkino Faso and Ansar Dine have also said they are ready to meet President Campaoré. Any agreement...
African Conflicts Push New Refugee Population to 11-Year High - 19/06/2012 Jim Lobe - IPSNews
Civil conflicts in four African nations helped push some 800,000 people to seek safe haven in foreign countries during 2011, according to the annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner...
Algeria: Good grain harvests will help reduce food imports - 19/06/2012 NAU - Agencies
Algeria, which normally imports 60% of its cereal needs, could reduce this burden because of the large harvest ever recorded.
Algeria, which...
ZTE enters Tunisian mobile phone market - 19/06/2012 NAU - Agencies
The world's fourth-largest mobile phone producer, ZTE, has entered the Tunisian market, the Chinese telecom giant announced at a press conference on Monday in Tunis....
US engagement with Africa - 19/06/2012 NAU
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the cornerstone of the U.S. trade and economic relationship with sub-Saharan Africa, has seen an impressive growth in trade between the United States...
Gunmen storm Tunisian consulate in Libya's Benghazi - 18/06/2012 AFP
Gunmen on Monday stormed the Tunisian consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, diplomatic and security sources told AFP, without reporting casualties....
SCAF Issues amended Egypt Constitutional Declaration - 18/06/2012 NAU - Agencies
The Supreme Armed Forces Council(SCAF) has awarded itself new legislative and fiscal powers which effectively mean that it has taken control in Egypt. The new president will have no authority over...
Libyan Government Sends Troops to troubled region - 18/06/2012 NAU - Agencies
Following frequent clashes between militias and tribal factions Libya's National Transititional Council (NTC) has deployed troops in the west of the country in Zintan,Mizdah and Shegayga and declared...
Tunisia: President Moncef Marzouki Condemns 'Irresponsible' calls to incite violence. - 18/06/2012 NAU - Agencies
The Presidency of the Republic strongly condemned on Saturday as "irresponsible" the calls for the murder of artists "launched even in the mosques", reminding that "the freedoms of opinion,...
Election victories in France and Greece - 18/06/2012 NAU - Agencies
The French Socialist Party won an overall majority in the National Assembly obviating the need for a cooalition with the far Left and to Europe's immense relief Anonis Samaras's pro EU bail out New...
Algeria has spared no effort to help refugees in Sahel - 17/06/2012 NAU - Agencies
Algeria has made every effort to help refugees in the Sahel region, said Saturday Abdourrahmane Cisse, president of Mali Red Cross. "Algeria had taken the initiative to help destitute population...
Morocco: Blogger Gets Two-Year Jail Sentence On Trumped-Up Drug Charges - 16/06/2012 All Africa.com
Reporters Without Borders strongly deplores the two-year jail sentence that a Marrakech court imposed yesterday on well-known blogger Mohamed Sokrate on trumped-up charges of drug possession and...
U.S.: “No Going Back” on Democratic Transition in Egypt, Says Clinton - 15/06/2012 Jim Lobe - IPSNews
As angry demonstrators gathered once again in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to protest what many are calling a “soft coup” by the military, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted that Washington...
Women Targeted in Tahrir Square - 15/06/2012 Mel Frykberg - IPSNews
It is becoming increasingly uncomfortable to be female or foreign in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, birthplace of the January 2011 Egyptian revolution....
Offshoring: Morocco risks loosing its French call centers - 15/06/2012 NAU
The jobs of 30,000 Moroccan employees are threatened by a French government demand for call centres to be relocated to France and to be staffed by French expatriates....
Tunisia,Tourism: The worst is yet to come? - 15/06/2012 NAU
The newspaper La Temps de Tunisie writes that the Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice did not hide his annoyancewhen he heard a journalist describing the recent troubles in Tunisia as...
