TUNIS, May 07, 2013 (AFP) Two jihadist groups the Tunisian army is pursuing on the border with Algeria belong to Al-Qaeda, interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said on Tuesday. "There are two groups, one in the Kef region with around 15 people and the other in Mount Chaambi with around 20 people," Aroui told a news conference, referring to the Islamist groups the army has been hunting since last we ...

By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, April 14, 2013 In modern Algeria, in the twenty first century, a girl walking in the street, which is a male space par excellence in Arab societies in general, can likely be arrested by the police to find herself in a hospital for virginity test. This illegal traumatic act is very recurrent in Algeria today in total violation of personal privacy and human rights, ...

by Ibrahim al-Majbari TRIPOLI, April 13, 2013 (AFP) A bill banning associates of former dictator Moamer Kadhafi from politics risks inflaming tensions in Libya and could see top officials including the premier and the assembly chief removed from their posts. The bill, first proposed in December, will target those who worked in 36 job categories during Kadhafi's four decades in power. Supporters of the new l ...

By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, April 11, 2013 The European Union (EU) officially launched on Friday April 5, in Rabat, a new program to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations in Morocco, an instrument that will strengthen their role in the promotion of democratic reforms and public policies in the country. This program will be funded through the “Civil Society Facility,” adopted ...

By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, April 8, 2013 Many people have deeply sympathized with the young Moroccan engineer Mohamed Amine Bouabdelli who was in need of a huge amount of money for a heart transplant in France. Some people launched Facebook pages and engaged in campaigns to raise funds for his operation. Media have intensively participated in this campaign by showing the case of the young m ...

Morocco World News New York, March 16, 2013 According to the latest Human Development index, which was released in Mexico city on Thursday, Morocco ranks 130th on the human development index. The list of Human Development Index 2013 is topped by Norway. In addition  to the Scandinavian country, the top ten list includes Australia, United States, Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerlan ...

By Larbi Arbaoui Morocco World News Taroudant, Morocco, March 16, 2013 For the 23rd consecutive year, the Moroccan rally, Aicha des Gazelles, the only Rally Raid for women only, kicks on March 16 from les Jardins du Trocadéro in Paris. Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan, whose daughter Caroline is engaged in the adventure, will mark the start at 15:00 Live from the Village installed for the occasion. Since ...

TUNIS, March 15, 2013 (AFP)  The head of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party Ennahda insisted Friday that his group was opposed to female circumcision, after one of its MPs caused a storm by reportedly saying the operation was "aesthetic." "We do not approve of female circumcision, a practice supported neither by Ennahda nor by religion, and which is not a part of our culture," Rached Ghannouchi told a news con ...

TUNIS, Feb 28, 2013 (AFP) An electro-dance craze that has gone viral on the Internet is sparking insults and fisticuffs in Tunisia, where secularists and Islamists are battling for the soul of a nation widely viewed as the Arab world's most progressive. The social divide in this small North African country was sharply punctuated on February 6 when a lone hooded gunmen shot to death leading leftist oppositio ...

TUNIS, Feb 26, 2013 (AFP) The suspected murderer of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid has been identified and is on run but four of his accomplices have been arrested, Interior Minister Ali Larayedh said on Tuesday. “The killer has been identified and is being chased,” AFP reported Larayedh saying in a news conference. “Four other suspects have been arrested. They belong to a radical religious” group ...

Morocco World News with agencies Rabat, February 18, 2013 The Vice-President of the Centre for Research and Studies in Social Sciences (CRESS), Amina Messaoudi and Director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies and Policies (CECOP) M'hamed Maliki on Sunday highlighted the importance of the Autonomy Plan, presented by Morocco in April 2007, as a “credible” and a “serious” solution to the Sahara conflict, ...

Marrakesh, February 15, 2013 (MAP) “Morocco ambitions to reach a production of 2,000 Megawatts of solar energy by 2020,” said the chairman of the Moroccan solar energy agency (MASEN), Mustapha Bakkoury. Under an ambitious plan adopted in this regard, Morocco wants to reduce its energy dependence and stimulate national and foreign investments in solar and wind energies, said Bakkoury in Marrakesh during a co ...