Waste Management Key To Regaining Public Trust In The Arab World
World Bank Feature Story STORY HIGHLIGHTS In Palestine, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia, moves to improve how municipalities dispose of household waste are seen as measures of their commitment to their citizens. In Lebanon, uncollected garbage has reached critical levels...
ISESCO Criticizes UN Chief’s Remarks On Disputed Western Sahara
Middle East Monitor The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) has criticised remarks made by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the disputed Western Sahara territory during his visit to the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria...
UN Chief Angry At Huge Morocco Protest Over Western Sahara
BC NEWS By The Associated Press Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is deeply disappointed and angry at the huge demonstration in Morocco against him over his remarks about the contested territory of Western Sahara — and astonished at the government's reaction, the United...
Huge Moroccan Protests Against UN Chief’s Stance On W Sahara
Al Arabiya The Associated Press, Rabat Up to one million Moroccans marched through their capital Sunday to protest the UN secretary-general’s remarks about the contested Western Sahara territory. It was an unusually massive show of public anger for Morocco, and was...
Huge Moroccan Protests Target UN Chief For Describing Western Sahara As ‘Occupied’
South China Morning Post AP in Rabat Photo: EPA Moroccan protesters chant slogans against the United National Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during a protest in Rabat on Sunday. Photo: EPA Up to 1 million Moroccans have marched through their capital to protest the UN...
Ban Meets With Moroccan Foreign Minister; Discusses Efforts To Settle Western Sahara Dispute
UN News Centre United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met today in New York with Salaheddine Mezouar, the Foreign Minister of Morocco, to exchange views on the state of efforts to settle the Western Sahara dispute, as well as his recent visit to the region to...
Pierre Bergé-YSL Foundation Dazzles with Exhibition of Noureddine Amir’s Wearable Sculptures
Artnet News ART WORLD Harlie Rush Careful lighting spotlights Amir's garments. Photo: Courtesy the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, © Luc Castel. The Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent in Paris launched last week the exhibition "Noureddine Amir's...
Vanessa Branson’s Moroccan Arts Mission
BBC News By Vincent Dowd Arts reporter In 2002 Vanessa Branson, sister to Richard, opened a funky new hotel in Marrakech in Morocco. A couple of years later she launched an even riskier enterprise - a big new arts festival in the same city. The Marrakech Biennale is...
Moroccans Rally To Protest UN Chief’s WSahara Comments
AFP Photo AFP Fadel Senna Hundreds of thousands of people protested against Ban Ki-moon in Rabat on Sunday after Morocco's government criticized the UN chief for remarks made on the disputed Western Sahara region. Carrying banners denouncing Ban's alleged "lack of...
Moroccans Protest Over U.N. Ban’s West Sahara Position
Reuters By Aziz El Yaakoubi Tens of thousands of Moroccans marched though the capital Rabat on Sunday to protest against U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's position on the Western Sahara dispute and rally support for the king. Waving portraits of King Mohamed and...