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Egyptian director sends defiant Cannes message - 18/05/2012 AFP
Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah, in Cannes with an Arab Spring drama, defiantly vowed on Thursday that the Islamists jockeying for power back home would never succeed in stifling art....
3G in Algeria: Specification and the three telephone operators "ready," says Benhamadi - 18/05/2012 APS
The specifications of the 3G and the three operators of mobile telephony "are ready" to launch this technology in Algeria, expected "in the coming weeks," even if the case of Djezzy persists, the...
Morocco slams "biased" U.N. Western Sahara envoy - 18/05/2012 Reuters
Morocco said on Thursday it had lost confidence in the U.N. envoy to the contested Western Sahara territory, in the latest in a long series of setbacks in efforts to settle a decades-old dispute...
Arab Autocrats Aiding Resurgence of Terrorism - 17/05/2012 Dr. Emile Nakhleh - IPSNews
The rising spectre of terrorism in Syria shows that by clinging to power and refusing to implement meaningful reforms, Arab autocrats in Syria, Bahrain, and elsewhere are indirectly contributing to...
Phosphates Exports Up 15.7% In April - 17/05/2012 MAP
Morocco’s phosphates exports rose 15.7% to reach over 4.26 billion dirhams in April, against 3.68 the same period last year, Morocco’s foreign exchange regulator Office des Change said....
In Libya, the Captors Have Become the Captives -NYT - 17/05/2012 NAU
In an article in the New York Times Frank D.Worth examines the scourge of torture in Libya's illegal militia prisons and its after affects as those who inflicted the torture under the Gaddafi regime...
Presidential Candidate ends campaign and endorses Amr Moussa. - 17/05/2012 NAU - Agencies
Mohammed Fawzi Eissa, a lawyer for several ministers from ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime on trial for fraud, said he now supported Mussa as the next president of Egyp, APS reports.....
Mali president rejects proposal for new caretaker head - 17/05/2012 AFP
Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore on Wednesday rejected a proposal by a former junta which staged a coup in March for a national convention to choose a caretaker head of state....
Hollande taps old hands, new faces for French government - 17/05/2012 Reuters
French President Francois Hollande named a government dominated by moderate left-wingers on Wednesday after Socialist Party boss Martine Aubry, overlooked for the post of prime minister, said she no...
Mali Islamists to let first aid convoy enter - 17/05/2012
The Malian Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine said on Tuesday it would allow an aid convoy it had blocked outside the northern city of Timbuktu to deliver its food and medical supplies on Wednesday,...
Maroc Annonces: Pioneering Online Classified Ads in Morocco - 16/05/2012 Wamda
Created 12 years ago, by founder Tadjne Filali,Maroc Annonces was the first online classified ads company in Morocco. Once a pioneer and today still a leader in the market, with 60K visitors per...
Africa Must Diversify to Create More Jobs, Says Okonjo-Iweala - 16/05/2012 IMF Survey Online
African countries should rebuild their fiscal buffers and diversify their economies away from commodities in order to protect themselves from another possible global downturn, says Nigerian Finance...
Qatar to proceed with $2bn refinery in Tunisia - 16/05/2012 Reuters/QNA
Qatar has revived plans to build a $2bn oil refinery in Tunisia after years of delays, Qatari and Tunisian officials said yesterday, expanding the North African country’s refining capacity more than...
Algeria is the "natural leader" in the region (U.S. official) - 16/05/2012 APS
Algeria is the "natural leader" in the region and the United States welcome the" successful" parliamentary elections said Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Maghreb to the U.S. Department...
Morocco’s judges demand greater independence - 16/05/2012 AP
Morocco’s judges donned red armbands on Tuesday in a symbolic week-long protest calling for greater independence for the judiciary.
The...
Morocco/W. Sahara: No Action on Police Beating of Rights Worker - 16/05/2012 Human Rights Watch
The failure of Moroccan authorities to follow through on investigating the beating by police of a Human Rights Watch research assistant is a case study of impunity for police violence....
Tunisia expels Moroccan Salafists convicted of indoctrinating suicide bombers - 16/05/2012 AFP
About 50 Tunisian Salafist Muslims protested Tuesday at Tunis-Carthage airport against the expulsion of two Moroccan theologians banned from entering the country, an AFP reporter said....
Economy: Morocco, slowdown in economic growth, 6-year low - 16/05/2012 ANSAmed
During the first quarter of 2012, economic growth in Morocco saw a net slowdown, sinking, according to the latest figures issued by the High Planning Commission (HCP), to just 2.2 per cent, the...
Spin Cycle: Morocco’s Forgotten Reform Movement - 16/05/2012 Samia Errazzouki- Carnegie Endowment
Commentators are quick to cite a “Moroccan exception” to the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, noting the absence of upheaval. But Morocco is certainly not an exception when it comes...
Jailed Morocco Islamists on hunger strike: campaigners - 15/05/2012 Zakia Abdennebi - Reuters
Islamists who say they are being unfairly held in Moroccan prisons are staging hunger strikes to put more pressure on the new government to release them, according to campaigners who are in contact...