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Mohammed VI-A Satellite Launched into Orbit, Mission Success

Morocco’s first earth observation satellite, the Mohammed VI-A Satellite, was successfully launched into orbit at the early hours of this Wednesday from the European space port of Kourou in French Guiana using an Italian Vega rocket. Thousands of Moroccans remained stuck before their computers or cellphones to follow on arianespace website this landmark event and […]

Egypt: Journalists Protest against Arrest of Colleagues, File Complaint against Interior Minister

Hundreds of journalists Thursday marched through Cairo, from the Press Syndicate headquarters in central Cairo towards the attorney general’s office where they filed a complaint against the interior minister for the arrest of their colleagues during the Monday protest and against police brutality. The marchers holding up pens and cameras chanted slogans against security forces […]

Revolution Makes States : The Maghreb Inches Forward (Too) Slowly

Over the past weekend, the Ukrainian government was ousted, Ukraine’s parliament reinstated the 2004 constitution and former President Victor Yanukovich is on the run in Russia. One might be forgiven to think of these developments in isolation. But it is in fact a reminder that reactionary regimes rarely deliver the sort of stability they are […]