Commentary / World Aug 23, 2020
Fomenting intellectual revolution in the MENA region
by Rabah Arezki
A lack of basic data and limited space for independent discourse are preventing needed reforms.
World / Social Issues Jul 27, 2018
Over 600 migrants rush the fence to enter Spain's North Africa enclave of Ceuta
More than 600 African migrants forced their way through the heavily fortified border fence separating the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Thursday, using circular saws, shears and mallets to cut through the wire. Around 800 migrants tried to push through the ...
Commentary / World Sep 22, 2016
Watering the drought-stricken Middle East
by Moha Ennaji
Governments in drought-stricken countries must take urgent action to preserve water reserves and standardize supply.
World / Social Issues Jun 3, 2016
After a flurry of boat departures that sent hundreds of migrants to their deaths in the Mediterranean, survivors told police they had been kept for weeks on one meal a day in holding houses near the Libyan shore. Then they boarded the rubber or wooden ...
World / Social Issues May 24, 2016
Libya-Italy sea route again main migrant conduit north; 2,600 rescued over 24 hours
Italian vessels have helped rescue more than 2,600 migrants from boats trying to reach Europe from North Africa in the last 24 hours, the coast guard said on Monday, indicating that numbers are rising as the weather warms up. Some 2,000 migrants were rescued off ...
Commentary / World Feb 24, 2016
Morocco's economic model for the Arab world
by Moha Ennaji
Morocco's drive to become a regional renewable-energy powerhouse offers a real option for economic development in other Arab countries.
World / Social Issues Feb 1, 2016
As rightists surge, Austria vows to boost migrant deportations, deems North Africa states safe
Austria will step up deportations of migrants and is adding Morocco, Algeria and other states to a list of countries it deems safe, enabling it to send people back there more quickly, government ministries said on Sunday. Austria and neighboring Germany threw open their borders ...
World / Social Issues Jan 12, 2016
Merkel facing pressure as German gangs target foreigners after Dec. 31 assaults blamed on migrants
German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced growing pressure to harden her line on refugees on Monday as the first extensive police report on New Year's Eve violence in Cologne documented rampant sexual assaults on women by gangs of young migrant men. Cologne police said at least ...
World Mar 13, 2015
Islamic State leader accepts allegiance of Nigeria's Boko Haram
The leader of the Islamic State militant group that controls parts of Syria and Iraq has accepted a pledge of allegiance from Nigerian Islamists Boko Haram, his spokesman said in an audio message transmitted on Thursday. "Our caliph, God save him, has accepted the pledge ...
World Dec 29, 2013
How the West fell for the 'big lie' about South Sudan
by Daniel Howden
The pursuit of separation from northern Sudan at all costs made it harder to admit certain truths about the south, such as ethnic divisions, and created the need for the "big lie," as one senior U.N. official calls it. "The big lie is that ...
Commentary / World Dec 12, 2013
HIV/AIDS cases rising in Mideast, North Africa
by Cesar Chelala
Although the Mideast and North Africa has just 2 percent of the world's HIV caseload, it is one of two regions with the fastest growing HIV/AIDS infection rate.
World May 8, 2013
Jets 'held back amid Benghazi attacks'
by Ernesto Londono
As the weakly protected U.S. diplomatic compound in eastern Libya came under attack the night of Sept. 11, 2012, the deputy head of the embassy in Tripoli sought in vain to get the Pentagon to scramble fighter jets over Benghazi in a show of ...