First Independent Mena Newspaper
French President François Hollande will pay early 2013 a visit to Morocco at the invitation of King Mohammed VI. The announcement was made Wednesday in the two countries’ capitals following a telephone call between the two heads of state who both said they were looking forward to meeting each other. President Hollande thanked the king […]
The 6th International Handifestival will be held from the 1st to the 4th of December in Nouakchott despite the financial difficulties confronting the organizers with less than 25% of the budget acquired. The event is organized by the ‘Nyellitaaré Légnol’ musical group managed by Mohamed Camara who also serves the president of the Mauritanian musicians. […]
Reports are being featured that the Fitch Ratings Maghreb, the branch of the rating agency overseeing the region, is winding up its activities in Tunisia and will be closing its doors in the country by the end of the year. It seems as if the decision is prompted by the ongoing global financial crises with […]
Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz who was wounded on October 13 in a shooting that was officially reported as “accidental” has confirmed earlier this week this initial version of the incident and flatly denied any foreign involvement in the shooting. The Mauritanian strongman, who had been hospitalized in Paris after the gunshot wound he sustained, […]
At the end of the Libyan delegation’s visit to Morocco, both counterparts seem to be happy of the outcome of the negotiations to encourage investment. The chief of the Libyan Chamber of Commerce Idriss Omran said there are ongoing feasibility studies and projects to promote investment on both sides. He called on Moroccan investors to […]
The US elections and the monotonous presidential debates bear little to no substance on North Africa. In the much-anticipated third debate on foreign policy, there was scant mention of the countries of the Maghreb and their important strategic worth in US global fight against terrorism. Except for Libya (mentioned 12 times) in the context of […]
By 18 October 2012, a report that Salafis destroyed an 8,000-year-old petroglyph in Yakour Plain not far from Marrakesh quickly spread on Facebook and Twitter. The rock-drawing depicting the animistic divinity of the sun is one of thousands of stone carvings in the High Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains. Print and online newspapers repeated these rumors, […]
The 35th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival to kick off on November 27 will celebrate African cinema with special focus on the black continent. Nine movies from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Chad and South Africa depicting the realities of African society will be screened during the festival to run till December 6. The […]
A website dedicated to the work and thought of Mohammed Arkoun, the Algerian thinker, philosopher and renowned scholar of Islam, who died in 2010, was launched last week in Casablanca by the foundation bearing his name. The site of the “Mohammed Arkoun Foundation for Peace between Cultures” is a free online library of over 230 […]
Health minister, Houssine El Ouardi, who was for a long time an accident and emergency doctor has been constantly harassed by questions concerning quite critical issues affecting the Moroccan healthcare sector. That is why he reconfirmed that his top priorities are the improvement of mental health, accident and emergency care in a press conference. To […]