Month: September 2011

By Fatima Sadiqi (former Fulbright Scholar and recipient of a Harvard Fellowship) – The new reforms outlined in the June 2011 Moroccan constitution can be grouped in three major categories: separation of powers,...

The fall of Libya’s Colonel Muammar Qaddafi means a change in the geopolitics of north Africa that could put the conflict in the Western Sahara back in the spotlight, regional observers said. A source of recurrent tension...

Lanyrd, which bills itself as a social conference directory, has raised a seed funding round of $1.4 million from Index Ventures Seed and PROfounders Capital in London, as well as a number of high profile angels including Joi...

By SCOTT SHANE — In a new memoir, a former F.B.I. agent who tracked Al Qaeda before and after the Sept. 11 attacks paints a devastating picture of rivalry and dysfunction inside the government’s counterterrorism agencies. (..)...

Written by Hisham Almiraat – According to activists, Moroccan blogger and web programmer Mohamed Douas was arrested on Monday morning in the city of Fnidaq. His supporters say the arrest is related to Wikileaks Fnidaq, a...