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A blast at a weapons depot in Brak al-Shati in southern Libya has killed at least 10 people, while at least three soldiers have reportedly been killed in clashes with an armed group in Benghazi. State television in Libya quoted an injured man as saying people had been trying to steal copper wire from the […]
United Nations has reacted to the violence in Libya by planning to send a special force to protect its personnel as violence increases in Benghazi. The activities of the militias are threatening the state. Prime Minister Zeidan has declared that if the violence and siege of oil ports continue, the government won’t be able to […]
Egypt’s interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi put off the date for the constitution referendum to the second half of January next year, rather than next month as planned before. The delay in referendum comes just a day after public protests had been banned. The new constitution is currently being drafted and the nationwide referendum is […]
Egypt’s 50-member constitutional committee is almost on the verge of finalizing the constitution but continues to be delayed by “some differences” in within, committee Spokesman Mohamed Salmawy stated. 10 members of the committee walked out of sessions after brutal police interventions to disperse protesters under the new law which restricts public protests. Tamarod also released […]
Mauritanians voted in an election over that weekend that was boycotted by most of the radical opposition. While the country’s current President, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, is expected to retain power, the formerly banned Islamist party Tewassoul that wants to establish Sharia law looks poised to win seats in parliament. It was the first time […]
Allegations of fraud are being claimed by Tawassoul President Jemil Ould Mansour in the parliamentary and local elections held during the weekend. The ruling party is already leading in the polls counted. Some opposition parties boycotted the elections claiming it is an “electoral masquerade”. The final results are yet to be published by the electoral […]
Two years after the promise of the government to fight unemployment, the “Moubadara” project has been launched. The project opens opportunities for long-term jobless graduates to be employed in non-governmental sector or in the TAETIR mentoring program, both of which will start operating as of 2014. Part of the effort is also the expansion of […]
Casablanca Finance City (CFC) and Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) have signed on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding on the training of skilled professionals in financial services industry that will promote professionalism and professional standards in this industry in Morocco and throughout the region. The MoU also heralds the launch of two new […]
Political crisis is continuing to do damages to the Tunisian economy and rating agencies have been continuously rating it negatively due to political uncertainty. The country is on the verge on facing the same foreign currency reserves that Egypt is going through before the intervention of Qatar lately, sources revealed. Qatar National Bank is reported […]
As changes continue to redesign the landscape in the Middle East-North Africa region and in Africa, Morocco’s longstanding, friendly relationships with these two regions open new avenues for U.S.-Morocco cooperation, all the more so as the two countries have a shared vision on a set of regional issues, ranging from economic development to stability, from […]