Truckers who transport food from Morocco to this Spanish enclave in North Africa suspended shipments of perishable goods on Wednesday amid a simmering dispute over alleged police brutality by Spanish officers. But the threat of a lengthy commercial blockade could be easing with a reported agreement to suspend it until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan next month. The decision by truckers to stop hauling goods into Melilla came in response to demands by Moroccan protesters who...Read Full Story
An appeal court in Senegal on Thursday gave the green light for the extradition of three Moroccans accused of terrorism, but their fate depends on a presidential decree, their lawyer said. The court "gave a favorable verdict" for the extradition to Morocco of Si Mohamed, Mohamed Brigph and Moulaye Abdelhani Nadane, the lawyer Assane Dioma Ndiaye told AFP. Ndiaye said that "good relations between Senegal and Morocco and reasons of state won out over humanitarian considerations and the...Read Full Story
"Watch more television" may become the order of the day in Morocco's Berber households after the first TV channel in their ancient but marginalised tongue, Amazigh, was launched after a decades-long struggle. Tamazight, the name of the station, broadcasts in the lingua franca of North Africa's indigenous residents, the Berbers, before the 7th-century Arab conquest of the region. Today it is spoken mainly in rural pockets in Morocco. "We are relying a lot on television," said Ahmed Boukous...Read Full Story
Senegal's top aviation official on Sunday charged Royal Air Maroc's stated aim of withdrawing from their joint holding in grounded Air Senegal as "unacceptable" and "irresponsible." The company, which employs 500 people, is 51 percent owned by RAM with the Senegalese state holding the remaining 49 percent. After an escalating dispute about money and control over the company, RAM suddenly announced on April 24 that Air Senegal was stopping all operations, leaving hundreds of passengers...Read Full Story
Senegalese and Moroccan civil aviation experts are meeting in Dakar Wednesday to find a way out of a crisis for Air Senegal, which has ceased all operations amid a dispute between Dakar and majority shareholder Royal Air Maroc. The crisis talks are being held behind closed doors in a Dakar hotel. Royal Air Maroc (RAM) holds 51 percent of Air Senegal while the Senegalese government controls 49 percent. After an escalating dispute about money and control over the company RAM suddenly announced...Read Full Story
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The African Baguette explores France's influence in Francophone Africa. From politics to education, AfBag specifically seeks to uncover the relationship between the French language and two local languages of French Africa: 1) the Wolof language in Sengal and 2) the Berber languages in Morocco. France's footprint in both North Africa and the 14...more
The African Baguette explores France's influence in Francophone Africa. From politics to education, AfBag specifically seeks to uncover the relationship between the French language and two local languages of French Africa: 1) the Wolof language in Sengal and 2) the Berber languages in Morocco. France's footprint in both North Africa and the 14 West African countries of the Franc Zone is most evident through the use and plurality of languages. While the footprints are relatively easy to uncover, the stigma of the footprints' are more ambiguously in place. Let's reveal and reflect upon the raison d'etre in l'Afrique Francophone.