Connecting Morocco and Mauritania to their Sahelian-African hinterland serves as a strategic lever for both continental and international trade, emphasized participants in the first Mauritania-Morocco Economic Parliamentary Forum held Friday and Saturday in Nouakchott. The Nouakchott Declaration adopted by the two-day forum highlighted that the strategic and structural port and maritime transport infrastructures established by […]
The air forces of the five Maghreb countries (Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania &Tunisia) and their European partners France, Spain, Italy, Malta and Portugal have staged lately a joint aerial military drill destined to counter terror threats. The joint regional exercise, code-named “Circaete 2012”, seeks to enhance the combat capabilities of the air forces to prevent […]
After a series of arbitrary arrests and bogus charges against outspoken reporters, Algeria moved to institutionalize its crackdown on free speech through a law that makes muzzling the press a legal process. The law includes provisions forcing journalists to uncover their sources and bans receiving foreign funds, a charge that has been used to shutdown […]
