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Le voleur cagoulé de Marrakech arrêté par la police
Lemag : Une récente vidéo a fait le buzz récemment, montrant une scène bien désolante dans une ruelle de la ville de Marrakech: un voleur cagoulé qui s'est attaqué à une femme avec une arme pour lui...
Tunisia constitution to be put to vote Saturday
Tunisian lawmakers will vote Saturday on adopting a long-delayed new constitution, more than three years after the revolution, constituent assembly officials said....
Tunisia's assembly finishes new constitution
Tunis - Tunisia's national assembly approved the final articles of the country's new constitution on Thursday, three years after their uprising against autocrate Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali inspired a...
Algerian Drinks Producers Slam Tunisian Consumption Tax
The Algerian association of drinks producers (APAB) has denounced Tunisia's decision to impose a tax on the consumption of Algerian products, warning that the levy will merely serve to block...
Varian Medical Systems Partners with the Algerian Ministry of Health to Equip Cancer Centers with Advanced Technology for Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery
Algiers, Algeria - Varian Medical Systems (VAR) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Algerian Ministry of Health (MOH) that will include the provisioning of six cancer...
Moroccan bourse suspends trading in sugar company Cosumar
Rabat - Morocco's financial market watchdog suspended trading in sugar supplier Cosumar on Thursday pending an important announcement, the Casablanca stock exchange said in a statement....
Moroccan jailed for 20 years over death of child housemaid
Rabat - The employer of a 14-year-old Moroccan housemaid who died after suffering severe burns was jailed for 20 years on Thursday by a court in the southern city of Agadir, an NGO said....
Morocco's budget deficit falls to lowest since before protests
RABAT, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Morocco's budget deficit fell to 5.4 percent of gross domestic product in 2013, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday, its lowest level since before the Arab uprisings...
Chicago agricultural commodity futures market closes mixed
Chicgo - Chicago agricultural commodity futures traded mixed Thursday, with corn and wheat prices up and soybeans prices down.
The most...
African-American Leaders: Will Allen, Urban Farmer
Like others in the so-called “good food” movement, Will Allen, 64, asserts that the modern industrial food system is depleting soil, poisoning water, gobbling fossil fuels and filling Americans...
Morocco's budget deficit drops to 5.4 pct of GDP in 2013
Rabat - Morocco's budget deficit drops to 5. 4 percent of GDP in 2013 against 7.3 percent in 2012, the Moroccan minister of economy and finance Mohamed Boussaid announced Thursday....
Corps lumineux au ciel de Marrakech : Extraterrestres, Djinns ou artifices ?
Lemag : De mystérieuses ombres lumineuses ont été perçues dans le ciel de Marrakech, lundi dernier au soir, déchainant les commentaires les plus inattendus et les interrogations les plus craintives,...
RECIPES: Moroccan Beef and Sweet Potato Stew
Makes about 6 servings.
2 ½ pounds beef stew meat, cut into 1 to 1 ½ inch pieces 3...
European Jihadists in Syria More and Younger
European security officials say that in recent weeks they have noticed an "alarming acceleration" in the number of European jihadists traveling to Syria to obtain combat experience with Islamist...
Algeria ruling party announces Bouteflika's re-election bid for fourth term
Algiers - Secretary General of Algeria's ruling National Liberation Front (FLN), Amar Saadani, announced Wednesday that incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will run for a fourth term....
'Mr Chow' comes home with Hong Kong exhibition
Best known as a celebrity restaurateur whose 1960s mission to change Western attitudes to Chinese food has lasted nearly 50 years, Michael Chow is also a trained painter who, until recently, had...
Morocco inflation eases to 0.4 pct in December
Rabat - Morocco's annual consumer price inflation eased to 0.4 percent in December from 1 percent in November, with declines for prices of communications and education, the high planning authority...
Morocco Weighs Pursuing $1.7 Trillion Industry: Islamic Finance
Morocco plans this year to allow Islamic banking for the first time as the only North African nation with an investment-grade rating at Standard & Poor’s seeks to tap the $1.7 trillion...
Frontier basins focus of Cairn Energy strategy
Edinburgh - Scottish company Cairn Energy said it plans to drill nine new wells during its 2014 campaign, where West African developments take center stage....
The Invisible Moroccan: Reading Hassan Najmi’s ‘Gertrude,’ Reading Tangiers
In Hassan Najmi’s Gertrude (trans. Roger Allen, 2014), the author quietly inserts a Moroccan from Tangiers into the tumultuous turn-of-the-20th-century lives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas....