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Tunisia : 'Start-up Factory' to support young ICTs developers

Telephone operator Tunisiana has launched a programme called "Start-up Factory" to support young developers in the creation of innovative small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the...

Bombing Leaves Lebanon Shaken

The assassination of Lebanon’s top security official on Friday not only ravaged a quiet Beirut neighbourhood but also shattered the precarious sense of security many Lebanese have been desperately...

Injured Struggle in the Sahara

Safia’s six-year-old body is riddled with scars from the rocket that hit her home in February. With her immediate family all killed in the violent attack, this sole survivor smiles shyly as she...

Qatar makes its debut in the Sahel

Acting Malian President Dioncounda Traoré, yesterday flew to Doha (Qatar), said the office of the President. A Special Qatari aircraft was at the disposal of Interim President of Mali to transport...

Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil on a visit Monday to Algeria

Egyptian Premier Hisham Qandil will pay a visit to Algeria leading an important delegation, from 22 to 24 October at the invitation of Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal, according to a communiqué from...

Libya: Heavy shelling continues in Bani Walid

At least 22 people have died and 200 have been wounded in Bani Walid the state news agency Lana said. This was despite a ceasefire having been called by President Mohammed Magarief who has admitted...

Mali hosts international meeting on the occupation of the north.

World leaders are meeting in Mali's capital, Bamako, to discuss the crisis in the north of the country, which has been taken over by Islamist forces....

Jordan, Morocco, The Future Of The Middle East - Foreign Policy

Ahmed Charai of the The Foreign Policy Research Institute analyses the position of the kingdoms of Jordan and Morocco in line with the realities facing the Middle East ....

Libya: New Proof of Mass Killings at Sirte- HRW

New evidence collected by Human Rights Watch (HRW)implicates Misrata-based militias in the apparent execution of at least 66 oftheir prisoners following the capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi one...

Libya: Bani Walid assault - 48-hour ceasefire declared

National Congress President Mohamed Magarief has condemned the recent escalation of hostilities in Bani Walid in the latest sign of a growing disconnect between leaders in Tripoli and commanders on...

Understanding Lexical cohesion

In its broadest sense, cohesion is “a semantic relation between an element in [a] text and some other element that is crucial to the interpretation of it” (HALLIDAY & HASAN 1994:8)....

American Postmodernism

Postmodernism is best defined by vitue of opposition to its counter-part era, modernism. It investigates itself in an unprecedented way, a way that discloses the writing fictionality....

The Unspoken Objectives Behind US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement

The FTA was not an altruistic act, nor a charity; it was rather a strategy through which various unmentioned goals would later be achieved....

Morocco denies Salafist destruction of carvings

: Morocco’s government on Thursday denied claims that Salafists had destroyed stone carvings dating back more than 8,000 years in the High Atlas mountains....

William Reno (2011), Warfare in Independent Africa, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

In Warfare in Independent Africa William Reno examines the evolution wars in Africa since the days of anti-colonial struggles. While most work on African wars highlights how armed groups differ...

The Boston Boys arrive in Morocco

American roots music band The Boston Boys arrive in Morocco for a 3 city tour, with Moroccan musicians Abdellah El Miry and Mohammed El Azhar....

Sellal: Boosting wealth and job generating economy

Algeria should boost a wealth- and job generating economy, less dependent on hydrocarbons, Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said this week.Outlining his government action plan before the Parliament...

Monoprix is to be launched in Morocco

The French supermarket, Monoprix, aims to be established soon in Morocco. "The sign of Monoprix will be deployed in Libya and Morocco in 2013", said Adel Ayed, CEO of the company Nouvelle Maison de...

Initiative Unveiled to Increase ICANN’s Presence and Participation across Africa

Plan Receives Enthusiastic Support of CEO and Board Chairman. Leaders of Africa’s Internet community have unveiled a comprehensive plan designed to dramatically increase African involvement in...

Too Few to Take On Mali Militants - WSJ

The campaign to liberate Northern Mali has hit a snag says the Wall Street Journal (WSJ),Neither Mali nor its neighbours appear ready to send soldiers into a land war, against battle hardened...