Al Arabiya/AFP (Tarfaya, Morocco, May 18, 2013) — Morocco is sloughing ahead with a program to boost wind energy production, particularly in the southern Tarfaya region, where Africa’s largest wind farm is set to open in 2014. The kingdom, which has no hydrocarbon reserves of its own, hopes to cover 42 percent of its […]
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![[AFP/Abdelhak Senna]Rescue workers transport the bodies of victims killed in Casablanca, early on May 17th, 2003.](http://moroccoonthemove.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/130515reportagephoto2-650_4291.jpg?w=100&h=100&crop=1)
Morocco remembers 2003 Casablanca attacks – Magharebia
Magharebia, by Mawassi Lahcen in Casablanca and Siham Ali in Rabat (May 17, 2013) — 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 […]
Culture: On an Atlantic isle, Morocco honors its lost Sephardim – The JC.com
The JC.com/The Jewish Chronicle Online, by Bernard Josephs (Praia, Cape Verde, May 17, 2013) — It was an unlikely setting for a Jewish cemetery and the group, there to attend a rededication ceremony, was also out of the ordinary. Among those gathered at the event in Cape Verde, an archipelago of islands 300 miles […]
Human Development: Foreign Direct Investment’s Desirable Goal – Jean AbiNader
MATIC, by Jean R. AbiNader (Washington, DC, May 17, 2013) — While the term “Washington consensus” has fallen from its once mighty perch of prescriptive development wisdom, it is a bit startling to observe how many of its domestic applications—investments in local social and economic development, opening domestic markets to global competition, and an emphasis […]
‘Arc of Instability’ Could Turn Africa into Launch Pad for Terrorist Attacks – UNSC
**UN Security Council, of which Morocco is a member, held a special session to address deteriorating security in Africa’s Sahara/Sahel** UN NEWS CENTRE (UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, May 13, 2013) — An “arc of instability” is stretching across Africa’s Sahara and Sahel region, and if left unchecked, it could transform the continent into a […]
‘Perilous Desert’ warns of al Qaeda threat in Sahara, cites Polisario-run camps-Carnegie
*New book says Al-Qaeda “has found an attractive base of supporters and recruits” in “Arc of Instability” across Sahara/Sahel region.* Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, DC, May 13, 2013) – ‘The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear,” says a new book, Perilous Desert: Insecurity in the Sahara, published by the […]
