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Two French aid workers kidnapped in the Central African Republic
Two French aid workers from the NGO Triangle were kidnapped overnight from Sunday to Monday in the north-east of the Central African Republic, Mahamat Salah Amadou Birao, Bangui's vice-consul in Darfur, Sudan told AFP.
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Algeria - justice - Mauritania - Morocco - tourism
Moroccan music hall puts on a show
In this edition: secrets are revealed in a case involving French monks murdered in Algeria, Mauritania's tourism industry inches its way back to life and a new kind of cabaret in Morocco.
Freedom of the press - Morocco - pollution
Press freedom under fire in Morocco
Press freedom is under threat in Morocco as the latest of a string of journalists is sentenced for publishing alleged falsehoods about the King; Pollution threatens Morocco's beautiful beaches as laws passed to protect them are ignored.
Freedom of the press - Morocco
Morocco’s press takes the heat
A Moroccan caricaturist, Khalid Gueddar, is sued for having insulting a cousin of the King and the national flag. Isn't it an attempt to the freedom of the press in a State regarded as tolerant and modern by the Western countries?
media - Morocco
A year's jail for writing about the Moroccan King's health
In this edition: A Moroccan journalist is jailed for a year for publishing articles about the King's health, Tunisia's election campaign and Sharia adoptions in Algeria.
MOROCCO
Editor jailed for running story about king’s health
The editor at the Arabic-language Moroccan weekly Al Michaâl was sentenced to a year in prison by a Rabat court on Thursday for publishing articles suggesting the king (pictured) was in poorer health than the palace admitted.
MOROCCO
Ben Barka incinerated near Paris, says author
A French author, Georges Fleury, says secret police documents reveal that the body of Moroccan activist Mehdi Ben Barka was incinerated in the Essonne, south of Paris, after he was abducted in the French capital in 1965.
THE WEEK IN THE MAGHREB
Gaddafi mediates Tuhareg peace deal
In this edition: Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi has helped negotiate a peace accord with Tuhareg rebels from Mali and Niger ; and Morocco's slums are still squalid five years after the launch of an anti-poverty programme.
Libya - Morocco - Muammar Gaddafi
Gaddafi mediates Tuhareg peace deal
In this edition: Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi has helped negotiate a peace accord with Tuhareg rebels from Mali and Niger ; and Morocco's slums are still squalid five years after the launch of an anti-poverty programme.
Algeria - cinema - Cuba - France - Freedom of the press - kidnapping - Morocco - women
Ben Barka affair resurfaces
In this edition: Interpol releases arrest warrants for four officials wanted in connection with the kidnapping of politician Ben Barka back in the 1960s; press censorship in Morocco; a focus on Algeria's Socialist Forces Front.
MOROCCO
France suspends arrest warrants issued over 1965 political kidnapping
France has suspended the international arrest warrants it issued Friday for four Moroccans over the 1965 abduction of a high-profile opponent to Morocco's then King Hassan II, an event that has embarrassed the two nations for four decades.
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