[Magharebia]The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music wrapped up last week after eight days of events designed to promote openness and reconciliation between peoples.
[MAP]Oujda -The Oujda-Fez railway line has been reinforced with the projects launched, Wednesday, by HM King Mohammed VI, intended to provide this major axis with a modern infrastructure enabling it to accommodate the substantial flow of traffic in the...
[MAP]Bni Drar -By launching, Wednesday in Oujda, urban upgrading programmes for the communes of Bni Drar and Naima, HM King Mohammed VI gives strong impetus to urban development projects in the eastern region and to the royal initiative for the develop...
Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi has highlighted the importance of providing all means of intellectual support to people with special needs across the world and facilitating their access to books as they form an essential part of the community an
A webzine for women in Morocco is causing a stir for its frank treatment of religion and sexuality. Global Voices recently caught up with the founder, Fedoua Miski.
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TUNIS // As tear gas filled Istanbul's streets and anti-government demonstrators faced off with police this month, the man at the centre of it all, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, flew to the Maghreb for meetings and trade agreements in Morocco, Algeria and ...
There are a few stories of how these apes, originally from Algeria and Morocco, arrived on the island. The guide believes that World War II British soldiers brought them from Africa. Another source suggests they were already here by the 1940s (brought ...
Algiers, June19, 2013 (SPS) - The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Algeria, Amar Balani, said Wednesday that Algeria requires, as a condition, respect for its position on Western Sahara for the reopening of its borders with Morocco, &quo...
Naval units from a number of Mediterranean countries took part in a joint search and rescue exercise off Malta today as part of Exercise Canale '13, which is coordinated by the AFM.
Taking part were units from Italy, Morocco, Libya, F...
A hunger strike by detainees at the US’s Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba continues as some 150 doctors and other medical professionals demand access to the hunger-striking inmates.Some 130 of the total 166 Guantanamo prisoners are currently on hunger s...
The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa by Nick Turse via Tom Dispatch The Gulf of Guinea. He said it without a hint of irony or embarrassment. This was one of U.S. Africa Command’s big success stories. The Gulf… of Guinea. Never mind that most Americans couldn’t find it on a map and haven’t heard of the nations on its shores
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Libyans say no to militias.
Libyans say no to militias
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ALGIERS, June 19, 2013 (AFP). After an absence of 10 years, the Miss Algeria beauty contest is to resume on Friday in the western city of Oran, organisers said. A total of 20 women aged between 18 and 26 have been carefully selected from ...Morocco Wo...
[MAP]Rabat -HM King Mohammed VI sent a message of congratulations to HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, following his appointment by the UN Secretary-General as President of the United Nations Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation.
[Magharebia]Casablanca -When singer Mouhamed Rifi was named winner of X Factor Arabia last month, many of the judges were surprised. But as the 27-year-old Moroccan told Magharebia, his confidence grew as the competition went on.
[MAP]Marrakech -Full text of the message addressed by HM King Mohammed VI to the Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities that opened on Tuesday ...
June 18, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan has slammed the position of some countries for refusing to condemn the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) for the killing of a former rebel leader who signed a peace agreement with the government in Doha last April .
Mohamed Bashar, late leader of JEM-Sudan, a group that splinted in September 2012, was killed with his deputy Suleiman Arko Dahia near the common border between Chad and Sudan on 12 May. His group said their "peaceful convoy" was (...)
This year's festival includes filmmakers from Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Algeria, Morocco, Jordon, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Australia. The festival will open in Sydney from 27 June to 30 June, followed by Canberra 4-7 July and Melbourne 12 ...
