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  • Subsidy Reform Dispute Imperils Moroccos Ruling Coalition

    RABAT Morocco's junior government party is threatening to quit the coalition unless Islamist prime minister Abdelilah Benkirane moderates plans for sweeping cuts to subsidies on food and energy. Increased subsidies have been part of Morocco's strategy to prevent popular discontent welling up into an uprising of the kind that has toppled rulers across north Africa, but the moderate ...

  • Human Rights delegation meets in Morocco

    Manama, May 21 (BNA) - Bahraini delegation led by Human Rights Affairs Minister Dr. Salah bin Ali Abdulrahman met with the inter-ministerial delegate in charge of human rights in the Kingdom of Morocco, Dr. Mahjoub Al-Hayba, in response to the invitation received from the Moroccan government to be familiar with the Moroccan experience in the field of human rights and to exchanging experiences in ...

  • 5 migrants drown trying to reach Spain from Morocco

    At least five illegal migrants drowned off the coast of northern Morocco as they were attempting to reach Spain, the Moroccan authorities said. The rescue services were alerted to the presence of a "polyester boat with a group of illegal immigrants on board that was in difficulty off the Marchica lagoon, in Nador province," local authorities were quoted as saying late on Monday by the ...

  • Japanese Parties Voice Support to Democratic Referendum in Western Sahara

    Tokyo - Members from different parties represented in the Parliament of Japan have voiced support to a political solution to conflict of Western Sahara through a democratic referendum, informed Saharawi diplomatic sources. In a statement of concern on Western Sahara on Monday, the aforementioned parties expressed support to a political solution to the Western Sahara conflict through a ...

  • Independent Saharawi State Message of Love Friendship and Peace to Moroccan People Says SADR President

    Tifariti - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO stressed that the independent Saharawi state is a "message of love, brotherhood, cooperation, friendship and peace to the brotherly people of Morocco," highlighting, in a speech delivered Monday in the liberated town of Tifariti marking the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of armed struggle, that the ...

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Shrek the Third

Shrek the Third

Here's the fundamental problem with Shrek the Third: the first two Shrek films covered just about every hilarious to mildly amusing joke involving fairy tales imaginable, leaving the inevitable third entry with little to do but rehash old gags and try to stretch the previous ... ...

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    Free to View The following free to view company profiles are part of a select group of companies who have chosen to sponsor free OilVoice access to a University of their ...

  • France deports Moroccan accused of calling for acts of murder

    France is continuing a crackdown on suspected Islamic radicals with the expulsion of a 24-year-old Moroccan man who allegedly called for "acts of murder." French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced Friday the man, living in La Rochelle, France, had been deported for "repeated acts and calls for murder" posted in French on a "jihadist website." Valls said the ...

  • Sahel The West’s Responsibility and Algeria’s Proxy War

    Who is benefiting from recent MUJAO terrorist attacks in the Sahel? What party wants to weaken the resolve of the Touareg people and undermine the Azawadi rights to local rule in a unified Mali? To answer these questions, Western diplomats need to take a closer look at the long-term effects of the MUJAO’s military actions and the political implications of a volatile Northern Mali on the ...

  • Islamist politician calls for ailing Algerian president to show self after 3 week absence

    ALGIERS, Algeria - The head of Algeria's main Islamist political party has called for the country's ailing president to appear on television to dispel rumours over his health after a three week absence. Abderrazzak Mukri, the leader of the Movement of Society for Peace, warned that if the president did not soon appear, it would require invoking constitutional powers allowing his ...

  • Algerian Islamist demands ill president appear

    ALGIERS, Algeria -; The head of Algeria's main Islamist political party has called for the country's ailing president to appear on television to dispel rumors over his health after a three week ...

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