Morocco marks its own ‘Arab Spring’
RABAT (AFP) Hundreds of demonstrators Sunday marked the first anniversary of a reform movement, born of last year's Arab Spring, amid calls for more democracy in the Moroccan kingdom. In Casablanca, the country's second largest city, some 2,000 people gathered amid...
Thousands turnout for Morocco anniversary protests
By PAUL SCHEMM Associated Press CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) -- A few thousand people gathered Sunday in Morocco's cities to mark the one year anniversary of the North African kingdom's local version of the Arab Spring uprisings. The modest turnout was in sharp contrast...
Algeria seizes missiles smuggled from Libya: source
By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian security forces have found a large cache of weapons, including shoulder-fired missiles, which they believe were smuggled in from neighbouring Libya, a security source briefed on the discovery told Reuters on Saturday. The...
Maghreban Foreign Ministers Call For Modernising Structures And Action Mechanisms Of AMU
Rabat - Foreign Ministers of the five Maghreban countries unanimously called for reinvigorating and modernising the structures and action mechanisms of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU). Speaking at a press conference on Saturday following the Foreign Ministers meeting of...
Mustapha Bakkoury New Secretary General Of Authenticity And Modernity Party
Bouznika - Mustapha Bakkoury was elected, on Sunday, Secreatry General of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM). Bakkoury succeeds to Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah after receiving 352 votes while his contender Samir Goudar got 29 votes. Biadillah announced, on Friday,...
Arab spring News : Feb 19, 2012
Liberal, leftist, Islamist economists talk post-Arab Spring development Ahram Online What role will the poor play in the ongoing Arab Spring, asked Ayman El-Sayyid, editor-in-chief of Weghat Nazar magazine, at the beginning of a roundtable devoted to...
US Capitol Bombing Plot: Morocco Condemns ‘Extremist Thinking And Expressions Of Such Attitudes In Acts Of Violence’- Statement
Washington - Morocco expressed strong condemnation following the spread of information saying that a man with presumed Moroccan nationality plotted to perpetrate a terrorist attack on the US Capitol, Morocco’s Embassy in the US said on Saturday in statement. "The...
Next Round Of Informal Talks On Sahara To Be Held On March 11-13 In Manhasset – FM
Rabat - The Ninth round of the UN-led informal talks on the Sahara will be held on March 11-13 in Manhasset (New york’s outskirts), Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otmani announced on Saturday in Rabat. El Otmani made the announcement during a joint press conference...
Arab Maghreb states seek to boost security, economic cooperation
Main goal of present meeting is to prepare next summit, look at ways of establishing unified market across most of northern Africa. Middle East Online Arab Maghreb Union: Hopes revived RABAT – Ministers from Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) member states Morocco, Algeria,...
Serica Energy plc-NAPE Expo Presentation
Serica Energy plc TSX : SQZ AIM : SQZ LONDON, ENGLAND--(Marketwire - Feb. 17, 2012) - Serica Energy plc (TSX:SQZ)(AIM:SQZ) announces that at the NAPE Expo to be held in Houston, Texas during February, the Company will be presenting farm-out opportunities in its Foum...