Author: MoroccoTomorrow

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...

CNN updated Sep 25, 2011 15:21 GMT Nearly 40 people were killed in Yemen’s capital on Saturday as protesters took to the streets and government Republican Guards clashed with Yemeni soldiers who support the opposition. At...

CNN updated Sep 25, 2011 04:27 GMT Polls closed Saturday night in a parliamentary election in Bahrain, a day marked by more arrests and clashes between authorities and protesters. The election was to fill 18 seats vacated by...

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...

by Cecile Feuillatre – TUNIS (AFP) Tunisia’s Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) founder hopes it will upstage the Islamist Ennahda, which he accused of pushing an “ideological state” agenda, in polls next...