Morocco in the News – July 6, 2011
Morocco Tomorrow Morocco Tomorrow (07/04) - Cette Constitution prouve qu’on est l’exception du Printemps arabe (in French) Morocco Tomorrow (07/04) - Ahmed Herzenni Appeared with Members of the MoroccoTomorrow Organizing Committee Politics 07/06 The National (07/06)...
NYPost – Morocco's Fourth of July
Over the weekend, Morocco's King Mohammed VI sent a letter to President Obama in which he stated that in 1777 Morocco was the first nation to recognize American independence. In a column in the New York Post, Benny Avni voices hope that this July could represent a...
Morocco in the News
Politics 07/05 Pakistan Observer (07/05) - Moroccan people make history The Daily Star (07/05) – Med Union chief vows to support Arab Spring MAP (07/05) - HM the King reaffirms strong will to work together with Algerian President to add new momentum to bilateral...
BBC – Critics Call Morocco's Referendum Corrupt
Citing the impossibility of a 98% vote in favor of the constitutional reforms proposed by King Mohammed VI as "unbelievable," at least one pro-democracy Moroccan activist has decried Friday's vote as "corrupt." Mountazar Drissi. in a report published by the BBC, has...
House of Saud Attempts to Achieve Stability
According to Foreign Policy Magazine (and Elliott Abrams of the Council on Foreign Relations) the House of Saud is attempting to slow the pace of reform in the Arab world by dollar diplomacy and other forms of persuasion. The pressure for change has been less intense...
World Waits to See Implementation of Reforms
Now that Morocco's constitutional forms have been enacted the world waits to see what the practical effects of implementation will be - whether the reforms will actually lead to significant democratic gains or will be principally symbolic. Morocco's Foreign Ministry...
Morocco's King Mohammed VI shows the Middle East's autocrats how to hold on to power.
The lesson Arab autocrats seemed to learn from Egypt and Tunisia was almost the exact opposite of what democracy advocates were hoping for. Instead of using less force, leaders across the region have been using more of it, reaching unusual levels of brutality....
Morocco’s GDP Grows 4.9% in First Quarter, Government Says
(Bloomberg) - Morocco’s gross domestic product grew an annual 4.9 percent in the first quarter, accelerating from 2 percent the previous three months, the state statistics office in Rabat said today. The North African kingdom’s economy, which depends on tourism for...
French president says France hopes Morocco will join G8 for support to democracy
(MAP) Paris - French president Nicolas Sarkozy said, on Saturday, that his country hopes that Morocco will join the "Deauville Partnership" which aims at supporting Arab states engaged in democratic transition. "As part of measures adopted at the latest G8 meeting, on...
Video: Moroccan Protests Continue
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