Forbes Magazine’s 2015 ranking of business-friendly countries revealed Thursday puts Tunisia at the 82th position highlighting a progress in terms of personal freedom to under-take. Ranked 87th last year, Tunisia bounced back with few spots to reach the 82nd position over 144 countries, mainly for the little progress on personal freedom criterion. The Magazine estimates […]
Two Mauritanian web journalists were Saturday set free temporarily after being arrested for defamation on Thursday, reports say. Jeddna Deida and Babakar Baye Ndiaye, respectively managing editor of “Mauriweb” and webmaster of “Cridem” were handed provisional release following their arrest on Thursday after the President’s son Badr Ould Abdel Aziz accused them of defamation for […]
The Moroccan director, screenwriter, and producer, Asmae El Moudir, has won the Grand Prize of the 20th Marrakech International Film Festival, for her film The Mother of All Lies, a first time in the festival’s long history. The 96-minute Arabic-language movie thus becomes the first Moroccan film to win L’Étoile d’Or in the history of […]
