Hafsa-Boutahar at news conference

The 70% rule, not American exceptionalism leads to US’s ‘best soccer ever played’

Two of the World Cup’s Round of 16 teams received the homecoming reserved for champions, even though they exited with the final week of the tournament remaining be played. Algeria’s Desert Foxes and Team USA shook the international soccer landscape with their unexpected performances before leaving, though. American team leader Tim Howard tweeted: “We’re playing […]

Boko Haram abducts scores of women in Nigeria’s North-east

An unknown number of people, mainly girls and women, have been abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents on Feb 6 in the Nigerian north eastern province of Gamborou Ngala. The near 200 victims are internally displaced living in a camp, said the UN as it condemned the kidnapping and urged the immediate release of the […]

Essaouira to Host “INSANIA”, an Institute for Advanced Humanities in Africa, the Mediterranean

The project to set up “INSANIA”, an Institute for Advanced Humanities in Africa and the Mediterranean, was announced Saturday in Essaouira during the meeting of the Center for Studies and Research on Hebrew Law in Morocco, held in Bayt Dakira. The setting up of this institute, the first of its kind in the regions of […]