Month: September 2011

Morocco pro-democracy protests

25/09 20h27- CASABLANCA, Morocco (AFP) Thousands of protesters turned out in Casablanca on Sunday to demand deep political reform, unappeased by a recently-agreed package limiting the powers of King Mohammed VI. Demonstrators...

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Saudi women win right to vote

by Assaad Abboud – RIYADH (AFP) Saudi King Abdullah on Sunday granted women the right to vote and run in municipal elections, in a historic first for the ultra-conservative country where women are subjected to many...

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