Maghreb news 2013-08-20
Magharebia 2013-08-20 Mauritanian president praises security advances President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz served up his annual progress report, focusing on security at home, soldiers in Mali and jobs for young Mauritanians. Terrorism | 2013-08-20 Morocco takes down...
US looks at Middle East policy
Two and a half years on from the beginning of the Arab Spring, two of the biggest countries in the region are in utter turmoil. It poses huge diplomatic conundrums for countries with an interest in stability in the Middle East, not least the United States. TRANSCRIPT...
Africans warn of rise in racist aggression in Morocco
RABAT (AFP) – African immigrants warned Monday of a rise in racist attacks in Morocco, as hundreds gathered outside a morgue holding the body of a Senegalese man who was murdered last week. Some 250 people, mostly Senegalese immigrants, gathered outside the morgue in...
Morocco dispatches aid to flood-struck Sudan
RABAT, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Morocco announced on Saturday he will dispatch urgent humanitarian aid to Sudan to help people affected by recent floods. According to MAP state news agency, "King Mohammed VI ordered to send humanitarian aid for the populations hit by the...
Morocco helps Sudanese flood victims
Morocco on Sunday (August 18th) dispatched urgent humanitarian aid to Sudan to help people affected by recent floods, Le Matin reported. Two aircraft loaded with medicines, food, tents and other supplies, estimated at 5 million dirhams, arrived in Khartoum. The number...
Maghreb News 2013-08-19
Magharebia Terrorism | 2013-08-19 Terrorist confessions shock, anger Tunisians An inside look at the plans to kill Tunisian troops along the Algerian border reveals a co-ordinated attack by terrorists from across the region. Economy | 2013-08-19 Libya vows to protect...
So Much for the Arab Spring
So much for the Arab Spring. In Cairo, Egyptian history appears to have completed a bloody full circle. First the crowds filled Tahrir Square to demand the end of a military-backed dictatorship. Then, just two years later, the crowds filled Tahrir Square again to...
Why the Brotherhood Failed
Imagine a government dominated by paranoia, convinced of conspiracies around every corner. That, in short, was the most defining aspect of the Muslim Brotherhood’s year in power in Egypt. Though the country’s first democratically elected government was overthrown in a...
Morocco’s human beasts of burden
MELILLA, SPAIN—It was early in the morning when Safia Azizi joined the hundreds of other women at the narrow blue turnstiles that separate the unusual Spanish town of Melilla and Morocco. The women, most of them elderly, each carried up to 80 kilograms on their back,...
Morocco-Tunisia: A Strategic Partnership – OpEd
King Mohammed VI held a telling phone conversation on August 18 with Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki, a statement from the royal office. During the phone call, the two heads of state discussed friendship and cooperation ties between Morocco and Tunisia. They also...