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Western Sahara: Morocco to be sent to court by injured Spanish activists
To the utter dismay of the Spanish Government eleven Spanish activists were arrested Saturday in El-Aaiún, the capital of Western Sahara, by the Moroccan...
Morocco’s Ramadan culinary and lifestyle experience
The holy month of Ramadan, one of the five pillars of Islam, begun on August 11 in the ninth month of the Muslim calendar...
Air Arabia: Low-cost revolution in Middle East and North Africa
Air Arabia, the UAE carrier, has for the past seven years continued to gain more wind beneath its wings in the Middle Eastern, North...
Monty Pythons show solidarity with Sahara refugees
Michael Palin and Terry Jones were among the celebrities attending a private view of a photographs from the Western Sahara refugee camps in London...
Racism towards Blacks in Morocco and Maghreb, a taboo topic
In Morocco, and north Africa, there is a serious problem of racism towards Black people. Called “Black Africans,” they are considered descendants of slaves...
Morocco: Almajadid.com, a 100% social networking site for Moroccans
Almajadid.com is the first social network entirely dedicated to Moroccans. The idea to create the site was born out of the realization that other...
7/7 Bombings showed we do not know our enemy
For most Britons 7th July 2005 will be remembered as the day that al Qaeda terrorists attacked London. But five years on, no link...
Morocco : The Gerets controversy reaches fever pitch
Success has a price. One that most Moroccans couldn’t afford as they stress Eric Gerets’ exaggerated salary : according to the local press, the...
MobiCash: A new money transfer service for Moroccans
"MobiCash" a new feature in international money transfer for Moroccans living abroad has been put in place by Maroc Telecom since the beginning of...
Middle East and North Africa open for telecom business
France Telecom have recently announced its plans to acquire five telecom deals in North Africa and the Middle East and are hoping to complete...
Moroccan economy to be “regionalized”
King Mohammed VI decided in January to accelerate Morocco's "regionalization" process in order to revamp the Northern African country's 16 regions, which date back...
Morocco and Spain strengthen immigration cooperation
Moroccan and Spanish cooperation to fight against illegal immigration has reached its expected goal.
A meeting between the secretary-general of Morocco's foreign ministry,...
Morocco: North Africans renew support to Palestinians
After several spontaneous demonstrations that took place around Europe and Africa, more than 50,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Rabat, Monday, in support...
Morocco: Sex without taboo?
"Nouadeh Lik" is a daily radio talk-show that tackles love, psychology and sexuality on Atlantic Radio, one of six private stations in Morocco. Every...
Algeria-Morocco: French car maker Renault moves to north Africa
Renault will open a new manufacturing unit in the northern Moroccan city of Tangiers-Méditerranée, where the French group plans to manufacture up to 400,000...
Morocco-Algeria: Fighting for the re-opening of borders
Efforts by both Algerian and Moroccan citizens towards the reopening of their common land border, closed since 1994, have intensified. By virtue of artistic...
Ceuta and Melilla revive Spanish-Moroccan dispute
Considered as "fragments of Europe on north Africa's Mediterranean coast",
are the cities of Ceuta and Melilla Spanish or Moroccan? Madrid and Rabat have revived...
Guinness World Records challenged over Moroccan flag stunt
Campaigners today have dismissed the unfurling of the world's biggest flag in occupied Western Sahara as a political stunt by Morocco and demanded that...
Being gay in Morocco
Samir Bergachi is unstoppable. Barely 23 years old, the young Moroccan is simply not content to live his homosexuality openly in a country where...
French government officials “deplore” Frances action on Western Sahara human rights
Today (30th April 2010) a cross-party group of 40 French government representatives joined with French civil society leaders in condemning the attempt by...
South Africa reaffirms solidarity with Western Sahara
South African ambassador to Algeria today reaffirmed South Africa's solidarity with the struggle of the Saharawi people for self determination. Speaking at the opening...
Mithly, Morocco’s first magazine for gays
Launched on April 1, Mithly (gay, in Arabic) is the first openly gay Moroccan magazine. The publication, edited in Arabic, seeks to give a...
Western Saharan hunger strikers and Morocco’s human rights violations
Worldwide appeals have been launched in support of thirty-six Saharawi hunger strikers reaching their 29th day of protests. The wave of hunger strikes, which...
Western Sahara: Campaigners call for of release of hunger strikers after 1 month without food
A human rights campaigner from Western Sahara who spoke out against
the Moroccan occupation of his country on BBC documentary is among six
hunger strikers in...
A hunger for justice in Western Sahara
Anyone who saw the episode of the BBC documentary Tropic of Cancer last month in which journalist Simon Reeve travelled across Western Sahara would...
Morocco: Blogging, a very serious affair
Moroccan authorities have fallen out with the new wave of free writers. Bloggers. Two of them, including the owner of a cafe, were thrown...
Morocco: First African and Arab state to host Earth Day
Earth day, one of the trendiest international events is earmarked to take place in the Moroccan capital of Rabat from April 17 to 24....
Morocco: Environmental journalist sentenced to two years in prison for exposing illegal cedar trafficking ring
Mohammed Attaoui, a correspondent for the Arabic daily "Al-Monataf", president of a local environmental NGO and an employee with the rural municipality of Tounfite,...
Africa foots the bill for illicit financial transfers
Nigeria, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and South Africa lead the list of African countries that made the most illegal financial transfers between 1970 and 2008....
Morocco ahead of Algeria and Egypt in democratic transitions in the Arab World
The Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) Monday presented its report, on the development of the democratic transition in ten Arab countries for the year 2008,...