Morocco Denies Bribe Allegations Over 1998 World Cup Bid
Reuters By Aziz El Yaakoubi Morocco's football federation denied on Sunday allegations that the country had paid a bribe to a FIFA executive during its unsuccessful bid to host the 1998 World Cup. U.S. authorities are investigating corruption at FIFA, soccer's global...
A Moroccan Tolerant Islam Widely Solicited
by Said Temsamani A considerable number of requests for cooperation on religious matters came from Mali, Tunisia, Guinea Conakry, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Libya, Côte d’Ivoire, all have been approved by King Mohammed VI. In his capacity as Commander of The Faithful, the...
Climate Change And Food Supply: Reinforcing The North-South Divide – Analysis
Eurasia Review By RSIS By Goh Tian* Climate change is set to shift food production centres and change the power dynamics of food supply and demand. Notwithstanding the general foreboding of doom and gloom from climate change, are there likely benefits from global...
U.S. Planes Target Al-Qaeda Veteran In Libya
The Washington Post By Missy Ryan The U.S. military launched an airstrike in Libya targeting Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed al-Qaeda veteran believed to be the mastermind of a 2013 hostage attack on an international energy plant in Algeria, Libyan and U.S. officials...
The Arab Spring And The Rise Of Non-State Actors
Arabian Gazette Ed Fadi Elhusseini analyzes the situation in the Middle East and opines that the need of the hour is a real leader who can take out the region from the chaos. In the past four years, Arabs have been living in endless Sisyphean ordeal, an unexpected...
Fashion: Moroccan Label Created Between Rabat, Paris, NY
ANSAmed by Diego Minuti Fashion: Moroccan Label Created Between Rabat, Paris, NY Jnoun, launched by two sisters, a manager and artist. They could not be more different, Zahra and Meriem Bennani, two young Moroccan sisters. Zahra loves concrete numbers and studied...
EIB Supports Europac’s Largest Investment In Morocco
Star Africa by PR Newswire Promoting the international development of businesses is a major strategic objective of the European Investment Bank (EIB) designed to strengthen their overall competitiveness whilst fostering their economic integration. As part of this...
AFRICOM Chief: Islamic State Threat Ripples Across North Africa
Stars and Stripes By John Vandiver The Islamic State group’s expansion into Libya and beyond poses a threat to regional security in north Africa, U.S. Africa Command’s top general said Friday. “Unfortunately, that (Islamic State) has expanded across northern Africa,...
Morocco Dismantles IS-Linked ‘Terrorist’ Cell
AFP Morocco on Thursday dismantled a seven-member "terrorist" cell linked to the Islamic State group that was planning to abduct and murder tourists, the interior ministry said. The suspects, whose identities were not revealed, had "pledged allegiance" to the jihadist...
Morocco′s Gigantic Solar Plans
DW In Ouarzazate, Morocco, on the edge of the desert, there are curved mirrors - some nine meters (about 30 feet) tall, for miles on end. Morocco is building the world's biggest concentrated solar power plant. The first block is due to go online as soon as...