Provides the latest RSS feeds for Morocco News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Africa Leader.com http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/cat/edc930a51ec6d19a/ en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 18:05:32 -0400 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:05:32 -0400 30 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 ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641752/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:18 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641752/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a 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 ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214640169/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:38 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214640169/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Valencia - The POLISARIO Representative in Valencia Mr. Saad El-Mami has held talks with the Vice-President and Head of Municipal and International Cooperation at the Council of Valencia Mr. Juan Jose Medina. During the meeting, the Saharawi Representative informed his interlocutor about developments in the occupied Western Sahara and humanitarian situation of Saharawi refugees. Assessing the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214640261/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 14:39:29 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214640261/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a On 30 April, the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) - which has been tasked since 1991 with maintaining a ceasefire and monitoring Africa's longest territorial dispute between Morocco and the Sahrawi Polisario Front - was yet again renewed. The UN body was initially set up to facilitate a referendum for self-determination promised to the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635978/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 11:16:09 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635978/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Morocco - Morocco's trade deficit has increased almost five-fold from 44 billion dirhams (1 euro = 11 DH) in 2000 to 201 billion dirhams in 2012 due to the growth rate of imports such as energy products and food. In its report on the "Competitiveness of Moroccan exports: what balance", Moroccan Department of Economic Studies and Financial Forcast (DEPF) noted that the economic ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635976/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 11:16:09 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635976/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Johannesburg - President of the Pan-African Parliament Mr. Bethel Amadi expressed the support of the Pan-African body to the Sahrawi people's struggle and to its legitimate right to independence, calling for an end to the sufferings of the Sahrawi population and to the Moroccan violations of human rights in Western Sahara. During the works of the second ordinary session of the 3rd ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634753/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 10:12:24 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634753/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Cairo - Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) said that Western Sahara has remained an open field for wide-range violations by Morocco against political and human rights activists of the Western Sahara, who call for the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination, highlighting that Saharawi rights activists continued to face arbitrary arrest, physical attacks and unfair trials. ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214633558/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 09:10:22 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214633558/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a An Ansar al-Sharia supporter died of injuries he sustained during fighting between police and militants in a Tunis neighborhood, Tunisian officials said. Eleven police officers and three protesters were hurt in the fighting Sunday between security forces and supporters of Ansar al-Sharia, an organization that advocates implementation of strict Sharia, or religious, law, Tunisia's official ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214633195/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 09:07:21 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214633195/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a By Aziz El Yaakoubi RABAT, May 20 (Reuters) - 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 ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214632423/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 08:22:25 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214632423/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers - My Journal and Djaridati.He said the ban was imposed after he rejected an order from the communication ministry on Saturday night to remove an article that claimed the president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, had slipped into a coma.The 76-year-old leader, who suffered a stroke last month, is being treated in a hospital in France. Aboud ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631090/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 07:19:13 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631090/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Casablanca - Morocco's view of terrorism changed forever a decade ago, when a bunch of Sidi Moumen boys blew themselves up at sites across Casablanca. Mohamed Mahboub once managed a popular Casablanca restaurant. He remembers May 16th, 2003 as if it were yesterday. "The Casa de España restaurant was jam-packed that evening," he says. "Mostly Moroccans dining together ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631341/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 07:14:28 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631341/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a UK - The UK-based movement "Woodcraft Folk" has approved unanimously, during its annual gathering, an emergency motion on Western Sahara, in which it reaffirmed its solidarity with the Saharawi people in their struggle for self determination and freedom, informed to POLISARIO Representation to the UK. "This Annual Gathering reaffirms the solidarity of Woodcraft Folk with the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631340/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 07:14:28 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631340/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Casablanca - Members of two Nador-based terror cells appeared in a Morocco court for arraignment on Tuesday (May 14th). The eight admitted "Al Mouahidoun" and "Attawhid" cell members had been "indoctrinated with takfirist ideology" and had "forged links with like-minded people abroad, in Melilla and in Belgium", the interior ministry said after their May ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631342/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 07:14:28 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631342/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Morocco is a hub of stability and development in a problem-laden region, French State Secretary for European Affairs Pierre Lellouche said on ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631343/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 07:11:58 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631343/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Moroccan main telecommunication company Maroc Telecom's turnover rose by 6% year-on-year in the 2010 first-half, reaching 15.5 billion dirhams ($1.8 ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631344/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 07:11:57 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631344/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The Sahrawi exile government, located in refugee camps in Algeria, has announced the construction of the first university of Western Sahara. The education unit will be built in the small liberated zone of the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631119/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 07:07:37 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631119/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a WAM ABU DHABI, May 20th, 2013 (WAM) -- Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development received at his palace yesterday the Algerian Minister of Industry, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Investment Promotion, Cherif Rahmani. During the meeting, they discussed economic and cultural relations between the two countries as well as other fields ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631345/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 07:07:21 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631345/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a WAM ABU DHABI, May 20th, 2013 (WAM) -- H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, received at his office yesterday the Algerian Minister of Industry, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Investment Promotion, Mr. Cherif Rahmani. During the meeting, they exchanged views on a number of issues of mutual concerns between the two sisterly ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631346/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 07:07:14 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631346/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Despite a police crackdown on protesters last weekend, the organisers of the pro-democracy protests in Morocco urge to create a new momentum by taking into the streets each ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631347/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 07:07:08 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214631347/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Midrand - The Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the Pan-African Parliament Mr. Bachir Chemam has called for the need to organize a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people, during the Second Session of the 3rd Legislative Period of the Third Pan African Parliament, taking place at PAP headquarters in Midrand, South Africa, from May 6th to 20th, 2013. "Self-determination ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630006/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:17:14 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630006/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The 2010 World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa will be held in Morocco's red city Marrakech on 26-28 October, in partnership with the Moroccan ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630007/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:01 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630007/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi presided over the nomination of the members of the new National Commission for the Protection of Personal Data (CNDP). Ph. ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630009/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:00 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630009/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The Moroccan Kingdom is able to receive more than 9 million tourists by the end of the year 2010 despite the difficult global economic situation, said on Wednesday, Moroccan Tourism Minister Yassir ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630008/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:00 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630008/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a This summit will contribute to enhancing the psychological perception, behaviours and vision of both parties' economic players, thereby laying the foundations for a new partnership culture. Thus, regular political dialogue between Moroccan and European heads of states and governments will be held alternately between the two sides of the Mediterranean. This summit represents a concrete ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630012/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:59 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630012/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The recently issued report underlines that Morocco's economy, which boasts promising potentials, is way ahead the economies of the North African region (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria) thanks to the partnership between the kingdom and the EU.The report, published online by the German TV channel Deutsche Welle, puts Egypt and Tunisia second, and Algeria and Libya fourth and fifth ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630011/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:59 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630011/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The crisis is far from over. Contrary to what the international financial institutions have projected, mainly towards the end of 2009, recovery will not take place in the foreseeable ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630010/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:59 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630010/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister, Ali Babacan, expressed his country's support to Morocco's candidacy for a non-permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630013/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:58 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630013/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The government had earlier expected a crop of 8 million tonnes, down from 10 million last season, said Reuters' source, blaming bad weather for this fall.This situation seems to be the reason behind Morocco's decision last week to cancel customs duty on imports of soft wheat for over three months.In June, the government raised soft wheat imports tariffs by 90% to ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630014/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:57 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630014/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Success rate has reached 49.08% this year, an increase of 31.44% compared the previous academic year, said the Ministry of Education in a statement.A total of 51.6% of successful students are female, explained the ministry, adding that the number of independent candidates who obtained the baccalaureate this year reached 6809. In the first, regular, session, some 118,052 students earned high ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630017/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:56 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630017/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The program, adopted at a meeting between Moroccan Foreign Trade Minister Abdellatif Maazouz and his South Korean counterpart Kim Jong-Hoon, aims at reinforcing commercial ties on a win-win basis. It is also meant to give new momentum to the Moroccan-Korean business council. The two sides agreed to hold joint conferences to bring the two countries' businessmen ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630016/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:55 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630016/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Morocco and the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) signed on Tuesday in Rabat, a financing agreement of about MAD 2 billion for the development of the country's financial and banking ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630015/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:55 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630015/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The two-year agreement mainly aims at providing social services and urgent medical assistance on behalf of children in difficult situations, especially in such cities as Tetouan, Oujda, Agadir and ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630018/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:54 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630018/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a This conference is dedicated to the discussion of problems related to global governance from different angles: global and regional, political (security), economic and financial.The agenda includes such subjects ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630019/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:52 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630019/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Casablanca's Court of Appeal sentenced on Wednesday Oudghiri Khalid, former Attijariwafa Bank CEO, to 15 years of prison and a fine of MAD 5,000 in absentia for complicity in forgery and ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630020/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:51 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630020/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The region is very important for the country's overall development, said ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630022/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:50 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630022/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a After the Ministry of Finance and the High Commission for Planning, it is the turn of Centre Marocain de Conjoncture to have its say. The diagnosis is clear: the crisis will continue in Morocco, and may even worsen, in 2010 with a growth rate not exceeding 2.8%, against 4.9% in 2009. These forecasts are revised down from what was announced a few months ago, mainly because of a change in some ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630021/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:50 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630021/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a HMRC is wasting time and effort by continuing to deny Gibraltar as an acceptable Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS) jurisdiction, says London & Colonial. The pension and investments specialist said the effort that HMRC is wasting on its delayed acceptance of the jurisdiction is to ‘no useful purpose’. ';I have had dealings with HMRC in various ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630023/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:11:23 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630023/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The US has backed down on its demand that UN peacekeepers in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara also shall monitor the human rights situation after Moroccan sources threatened to scale down relations with ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630024/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 06:08:45 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214630024/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a food prices , the high planning authority said on Monday. Food prices rose 3 pct from a year earlier, while education costs fell 8.8 percent, the statement added without elaborating. On monthly basis, consumer price inflation was flat as food prices fell 0.1 percent while non-food inflation was 0.2 ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214628812/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 05:32:45 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214628812/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Moroccan authorities today denied a delegation of four EU parliamentarians (MEPs) entry to the country. The MEPs were travelling to El Aiun, the administrative capital of the Moroccan-occupied territory Western Sahara, to study the human rights ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214628813/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 05:16:10 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214628813/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The European Union (EU) and Morocco today announced the start-up of negotiations aiming at reaching a complete free trade agreement, according to EU President ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214628814/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 05:16:05 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214628814/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a King Mohammed VI, with his speech announcing constitutional reforms, improved his ratings by the Moroccan pro-democracy movement. "It shows he is listening," say typical ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214628815/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 05:16:02 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214628815/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Several Moroccan cities saw attempts to organise follow-up pro-democracy protests today brutally stopped by riot police. Organisers denounce "a climate of fear" in the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214628816/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 05:15:59 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214628816/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Aon subsidiary company White Rock, a group of insurance and reinsurance vehicles which holds operations in key domiciles including Gibraltar, Guernsey and Bermuda, has redomiciled White Rock Insurance PCC Ltd to Malta. The move enhances White Rock’s ability to meet its client demands, and will broaden its domicile options for Protected Cell activities, says Aon. White Rock did have ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214627758/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 04:22:08 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214627758/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a The associations representing Spanish workers in Gibraltar staged a protest on 12 June campaigning for better pensions and social security benefits. Spanish workers in Gibraltar want the Spanish Government to change the law so that they get a similar pension benefit to what any other Spanish worker gets, when having worked all their life in Spain. They want benefits derived from their ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214627759/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 04:21:33 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214627759/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Foreign investors are shying away from Morocco as protests have turned violent. Moroccan stocks are falling, the tourist sector is seeing cancellations and investor groups discuss what to ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214627760/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 04:19:22 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214627760/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Several hundred Sahrawi protesters yesterday gathered in the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara city of Dakhla, but were met by Moroccan youths, engaging them in clashes all ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214627761/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 04:19:16 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214627761/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Casablanca - Morocco should update its methods for gathering intelligence on extremists and give its security services the tools needed for this, participants in a recent Kenitra seminar agreed. The goal of the May 10th meeting held by the National Security Directorate General (DGSN) was to co-ordinate national security efforts to counter the phenomenon of religious extremism in Morocco and ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214626369/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 03:33:58 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214626369/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Algeria is competing to be the next Arab nation to witness a popular revolt. That is assuming soccer is a barometer of rising discontent in a region experiencing a wave of mass protests that have already toppled the leaders of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen and sparked civil war in Syria. In fact, there is increasingly little doubt that soccer, a historic nucleus of protest in Algeria, is ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214623465/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Mon, 20 May 2013 00:13:21 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214623465/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a By Valentina Crosato "School attendance alone is not sufficient. High-quality and diversified education is our objective. Just going to school doesn't make children educated." This is the belief of Teach4Morocco, a Moroccan National Non-Governmental Organization created in 2011 and based in Meknes. Its aim is to improve Morocco's educational system, grant construction of ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214621181/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Sun, 19 May 2013 20:46:24 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214621181/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a There are moments when you start seeing technology in a different way, and one of these occurred last week as a Soyuz space capsule streaked through the atmosphere for a landing in Kazakhstan.Aboard were Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, whose descent was tracked by, among others, more than a million of Hadfield’s followers on ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214621374/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Sun, 19 May 2013 20:45:37 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214621374/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a (MENAFN) Morocco is planning a project to increase wind energy production in southern Tarfaya region, reported AFP.This project will be Africa's largest wind farm by 2014.The country plans to produce 42 percent of its energy demands, which is 4,000MW, via renewable sources by 2020.The Kingdom intends to generate 2,000MW from solar, as it launched the first five solar power plants, while the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214621373/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Sun, 19 May 2013 20:45:36 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214621373/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a ALGIERS, Algeria - An editor has accused Algeria's government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers. Hicham Aboud, editor of the My Journal and Djaridati newspapers, said that happened after he rejected an order from the Communication Ministry on Saturday night to remove an article from the papers that claimed hospitalized President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214617724/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Sun, 19 May 2013 14:47:02 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214617724/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a A cabinet crisis at the beginning is better than to wait for an end of the term of Abdelilah Benkirane, the Islamic Moroccan PM, in power, and launch the accountability process. When the Al-Istiqlal party threatened to leave the cabinet, it did cause an embarrassment for the prime minister and all the coalition's partners. In the same way, Al-Istiqlal's position also forced the young ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214616180/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a Sun, 19 May 2013 12:20:43 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214616180/scat/edc930a51ec6d19a