Morocco considers that the Royal trip of Don Juan Carlos and Dona Sofia to Ceuta and Melilla as an endangerment to the relations between the two countries. This reaction represents a much higher critique than the one presented to the visit of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in 2006. Moreover, it has opened up bilateral tensions…
Spanish police broke up an Islamic cell of five men and one woman, suspected of using the internet to recruit fighters for the Iraq insurgency. The suspects are all from either Algeria or Morocco, and allegedly call themselves Los Ansar – a reference to Ansar el Islam, an al-Qaeda linked group operating in Iraq, the…
France has given Algeria details of where its forces laid some three million landmines half a century ago. Put in place to prevent independence fighters from infiltrating the then French colony, the mines remain nestled along Algeria’s borders with Morocco and Tunisia. French officials state the move as a gesture to improve French-Algerian diplomatic ties.
The Moroccan government is helping to finance programs in Malaga schools, hoping that the large density of students from Magrebi origin do not lose their roots and cultural identities. The courses are given in the evening, and are completely voluntary and open to anyone wishing to sit in. Classes concerning religion are given in the…
As more than a million New York City public school students returned to class yesterday, Maria A. Aviles, the principal of Junior High School 45 in East Harlem, greeted children and reassured parents – a familiar opening-day ritual for a year that promises broad changes for the nation’s largest school system and its principals. (…)…
