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DNA: Belkhadem has forgotten that he had predicted a large score for the Islamists

On 19 December 2011 Abdel Aziz Belkhadem, secretary general of the FLN said "all political parties of the Islamist movement would obtain between 35% to 40% of the vote, "or between 135 to 155 seats...

Morocco to auction 4G licences in 2012 - report

Morocco will launch a tender in the autumn to sell 4G licences in a move that may allow the entry of a fourth operator to the market, a business weekly reported on Friday citing the head of the...

From Mubarak to Worse

More than 15 months after Egypt's Tahrir Square uprising and four months after free parliamentary polls, many Egyptians say that daily living conditions are worse now than they were in the Mubarak...

U.S. Calls on Mali Junta to Withdraw from Politics

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Malian soldiers who overthrew the government on Mar. 22 have neither the right to remain in power nor the strength to deal...

Is there a future for NATO?

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should build durable ties with other key regional partners in the Middle East and North Africa such as Morocco, a report by US think tank Atlantic...

Mali mediator in talks with rebels

West Africa’s mediator for Mali has begun talks with the Islamist and Tuareg rebel groups who seized the north of the country after a coup in March, officials said on Thursday....

Morocco: Exploring alternatives

Looking for fresh ways to revitalise Morocco’s tourism sector, the minister of tourism has suggested several alternative measures be taken this year to boost revenues and tourist arrivals....

Egyptian director sends defiant Cannes message

Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah, in Cannes with an Arab Spring drama, defiantly vowed on Thursday that the Islamists jockeying for power back home would never succeed in stifling art....

3G in Algeria: Specification and the three telephone operators "ready," says Benhamadi

The specifications of the 3G and the three operators of mobile telephony "are ready" to launch this technology in Algeria, expected "in the coming weeks," even if the case of Djezzy persists, the...

Morocco slams "biased" U.N. Western Sahara envoy

Morocco said on Thursday it had lost confidence in the U.N. envoy to the contested Western Sahara territory, in the latest in a long series of setbacks in efforts to settle a decades-old dispute...

Arab Autocrats Aiding Resurgence of Terrorism

The rising spectre of terrorism in Syria shows that by clinging to power and refusing to implement meaningful reforms, Arab autocrats in Syria, Bahrain, and elsewhere are indirectly contributing to...

Phosphates Exports Up 15.7% In April

Morocco’s phosphates exports rose 15.7% to reach over 4.26 billion dirhams in April, against 3.68 the same period last year, Morocco’s foreign exchange regulator Office des Change said....

In Libya, the Captors Have Become the Captives -NYT

In an article in the New York Times Frank D.Worth examines the scourge of torture in Libya's illegal militia prisons and its after affects as those who inflicted the torture under the Gaddafi regime...

Presidential Candidate ends campaign and endorses Amr Moussa.

Mohammed Fawzi Eissa, a lawyer for several ministers from ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime on trial for fraud, said he now supported Mussa as the next president of Egyp, APS reports.....

Mali president rejects proposal for new caretaker head

Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore on Wednesday rejected a proposal by a former junta which staged a coup in March for a national convention to choose a caretaker head of state....

Hollande taps old hands, new faces for French government

French President Francois Hollande named a government dominated by moderate left-wingers on Wednesday after Socialist Party boss Martine Aubry, overlooked for the post of prime minister, said she no...

Mali Islamists to let first aid convoy enter

The Malian Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine said on Tuesday it would allow an aid convoy it had blocked outside the northern city of Timbuktu to deliver its food and medical supplies on Wednesday,...

Maroc Annonces: Pioneering Online Classified Ads in Morocco

Created 12 years ago, by founder Tadjne Filali,Maroc Annonces was the first online classified ads company in Morocco. Once a pioneer and today still a leader in the market, with 60K visitors per...

Africa Must Diversify to Create More Jobs, Says Okonjo-Iweala

African countries should rebuild their fiscal buffers and diversify their economies away from commodities in order to protect themselves from another possible global downturn, says Nigerian Finance...

Qatar to proceed with $2bn refinery in Tunisia

Qatar has revived plans to build a $2bn oil refinery in Tunisia after years of delays, Qatari and Tunisian officials said yesterday, expanding the North African country’s refining capacity more than...