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A Quest for North Africa’s Economic Recovery: Lessons from Post-Communist Europe

In May 2012, leaders of the G8 countries met in France in order to discuss an eventual support of the ongoing revolutionary processes of the Arab Spring. Although a number of countries have already helped financially or otherwise, the current amounts of aid implicitly suggest that another Marshall Plan in not going to take place. […]

Libya: HoR speaker accuses PC Head of connivance with protest attack on Parliament house

Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives Aqila Saleh has accused Muhamed Menfi, the Presidential Council’s Head, of having a role in the attack on the Parliament’s HQ in Tobruk last Friday, Libya Observer reports. A nationwide protest swept through Libya last week calling for elections and replacement of current institutions and figures. The demonstrators […]

Morocco-EU Association Council: Brussels Unifies Position on Autonomy Plan for Sahara

The 15th meeting of Morocco-EU Association Council, held Thursday in Brussels, was crowned with the adoption of a new European position on the Moroccan Sahara, recognizing that “genuine autonomy could represent the most feasible solution” to the decades-long regional conflict. In a joint statement, the European bloc aligned its position to that of the UN […]