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Sidi Ifni: New clashes between security forces and demonstrators
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According to eyewitnesses, the clashes took place Saturday night at a police station in Sidi Ifni. These early skirmishes escalated yesterday in the morning, throwing stones, fire in bursts of rubber wheels and locking various areas in the city by security forces. The main reason is the arrest and hunger strike of militant February 20, Yasser Njaji. Therefore, a sit-in was announced last week, through social networks, to denounce "police torture" under the terms of the demonstrators.However, the blocking of sites the city has played extra time. Indeed, according to the general information site Agadir 24, "the roads to Tiznit and Guelmim were blocked with buses and cars and, for more than a day." This would be for fear of clashes spread beyond the city. Indeed, solidarity between demonstrators around the Morocco stands out more and more lately. Proof is all-out solidarity that followed the events of Beni Bouayach, a few weeks ago.
The offender's family plans to continue his protests that have lasted for 23 March. The same source, recent demonstrations would be peaceful. "The prisoner's family and supporters have scoured the city passing a school. Then they chanted slogans urging the police to facilitate his release, "continues the source. Indeed, Yasser was arrested Friday, March 23, following a demonstration and was referred to the prosecutor of the king. It has ordered its follow on arrest. The latest news, Yasser waiting for its next hearing tomorrow in Tiznit.
His friends and supporters have said that Yasser Agadir 24 remains "a leading activist and is very involved in the movement of 20 February." It does not demand more than "the right to work for its citizens and a little more social dignity."
Retrospective ...
In 2008, the Qatari channel Al Jazeera had made a debate on the fighting had known the city following the call of its inhabitants to the Moroccan government to optimize use of resources but also to promote economic development and social region. In 2009, the Moroccan government has responded with social projects. Initiative deemed insufficient by the inhabitants. In 2011, youth on February 20 prompted the people to revolt because state initiatives remained, Lakome reports, "the smoke and mirrors" and fell within the "ostrich policy" to calm the local situation.
Today, militancy is gaining ground and demonstrations promise to play extra time.
Cooking oil: Smuggling worries Algerian Moroccan industrial
500 to 1000 tons of edible oil, from Algeria, were introduced illegally into the Moroccan market each month, said Samir Oudghiri Drissi, president of the Refiners Association of Morocco and CEO of Lesieur Cristal. Even if the Moroccan Customs does not confirm the figures, it does not invalidate either. These figures represent "5% of domestic consumption and 60% of the eastern region," he told The Economist. Knowing that the monthly consumption of cooking oil in Morocco is between 20 000 and 25 000 tonnes. In one year, the Algerian cooking oil is 80% in grocery stores in the Oriental region. The rise of smuggling concern the domestic producers who struggle for human resources, material and financial resources invested in the long run to get such results. "It takes up to eight years to reach a digital distribution from 40 to 60%," says Oudghiri Drissi.Main cause: the price differential
In Oujda, the bottle of cooking oil Algerian five liters costs 55 dirhams. While Morocco is sold between 78 and 83 dirhams depending on the brand. Consequence: local businesses recorded huge losses in the region of Eastern [Oujda, Nador and even in Taza]. Product Algerian "could happen tomorrow in Meknes, Casablanca and even", warns the president of the refiners. The situation is particularly alarming that "it is difficult now to run our agencies properly. Some competitors have begun to downsize, "he added. Mr. Oudghiri Drissi says nonetheless that "the Algerian industrial are not involved, but the smugglers."
Health risk
Besides the reduced turnover, industry raised the issue of oil quality counterfeit. "Local production is strictly controlled. What ensures that the Algerian cooking oil is also smuggled? "Asks Mr. Driss Oudghiri. For if the housewife is concerned in general the price, this is not always the case for product quality. At least not to the point of checking carefully. Literally exposing the population to a significant health risk. The National Food Safety (ONSSA) ensures conducting patrols to secure the market. Customs also said tracking "hard contraband, including cooking oil." However, manufacturers are determined to wage their war to the end. They plan a meeting soon with the Ministry of Industry, Trade and New Technologies. It will matter for them to present their concerns, as a government solution is needed. Note that the Algerian smuggling in the region of the East for almost all consumer products.
Dounia Batma in Arab Idol: The dashed hopes of a nation
"Very disappointed with the results, I'm really rise against this injustice," throws sarah78001 in our comment section, Saturday, March 24. That night in Cairo, the dream of Batma Dounia, who had reached the final of the first edition of the Arab Idol show in Beirut, Lebanon, died. The national disappointment caused by this failure was up to the hopes raised by the arrival in the final of the young Moroccan. "The Moroccan youth need icons to dream and to plan very far her dreams, she is greatly missed gold, said Soumaya Guessous, sociologist, professor at the Faculty of Arts and Benmsick Faculty of Arts Mohammadia, youth lives in a slump, drowned in a speech negativistic. "Fell in love with Dounia Batma, this youth "needs to see that the effort, passion, dreams, ambition can lead to success," says the sociologist. "Its success is based on her voice, her confidence and great charisma," attests Nabila Maan, another young Moroccan singer, author of the album "Ter El Ali," in 2009. Even taking the heart of the star system of the Arabic song, Dounia Batma emerged as an icon of meritocracy.
However, the young Moroccan singer failed, defeated by the Egyptian Carmen Souleymane. The sense of injustice has been great for all Moroccans who had followed her episode after episode. "You see gentlemen cheating the organizers of the Arab world who will remember: the small or large Egyptian Batma," said an anonymous, like hundreds of other Internet users, on this blog-that-was-said. Some question the jury's independence vis-à-vis the sponsor Pepsi, from which the winner gets a one-year advertising contract. Others accuse the judges of favoring certain nationalities.
If the reactions were as vivid and as many, it is precisely that Dounia, by its passage Arab Idol, represented Morocco. "Every time that Morocco is represented by someone or a group at the international level, there is a very strong patriotic fervor. Moroccans have many voted by SMS to win Dounia ", their compatriot, said Soumaya Guessous. "This is exactly the same phenomenon as with footballers, it ignites passion and national solidarity," she says.
As a Moroccan footballer for Real Madrid, Dounia is not literally the colors of his country, it is only in principle and as an individual, but mechanically, by its mere nationality and because it is already known to Moroccans including through the issuance of Studio 2M, it becomes the standard bearer all Moroccans. "She has not really lost, says Ahmed El Alaoui, president of the union of professional musicians, as she won the love of the Arab world and Moroccans. Today, hope she thinks of his country and gives importance to the Moroccan song in the Arab world. "
From a psychological standpoint, the psychiatrist Ghita El Khayat, who performs in Casablanca, explains that "Moroccans need to exist at any price, because taken one by one, they are anonymous, thus in all companies. "Like all stars, Dounia Batma creates" a fascinating phenomenon that exists between people unknown and known people who can live through another, "said she. Dunya is Moroccan and young, it is "therefore a figure - and there are few, says Ghita El Khayat, to which young Moroccans can identify."
Marrakech: Protests against rising prices for water and electricity
For several months, Marrakchi have noticed an increase on their bills indisputable Water and Electricity. Faced with this alarming to say the least, several people including members of the movement of 20 February showed in recent weeks to interpellate a solution from the state. However, negotiations broke out in protest movements. This morning, over 100 people demonstrated outside the company RADEEMA (Autonomous Regie of water and electricity) of Marrakech. Subsequently, the demonstrators went to various parts of the city calling the people to insurrection.Having reached an advanced stage of negotiations with the governor of the city, residents have decided to accelerate the level of protest to the insurgency, the site reported Goud.ma. However, according to testimony gathered, there has been an omnipresent security forces near the city of different institutions and, for fear of the resurgence of the insurgency.
In addition to writing these lines, from the testimony of several activists of 20 February, no promise was made by the agency RADEEMA, or the governor of the city Ochre. The people, themselves, do not count much for letting go ...
France: The noose tightens on Muslims after the killing of Toulouse
Waking after removal of Mohamed Merah is rather difficult for the Muslims of France after the announcement of the identity of the killer feared Toulouse amalgams. If Islam has been at the heart of political debate since the beginning of the presidential campaign, and the stigmatization of Muslims, a recurring process, the tragedy that has shaken the France frees the floor again. Monday morning, this is Nicolas Sarkozy went wrong while he searched for words during an interview on France Inter. The two soldiers killed at Montauban, he said, "were apparently Muslim," a new name which is in addition to French of Muslim culture. In any case the awkward expression was accused of "racist" by the Communists. The Socialists in turn, ask Nicolas Sarkozy to avoid "words that divide."Sheikh Qaradawi persona non grata
Sarkozy's other action aimed Islam and did not leave the Muslim community in France insensitive: the famous preacher Qatari, Egyptian origin, Youssef Al-Qaradawi and Sheikh Egypt, Mahmoud El-Masri, are allowed to stay in France. Both were to participate in the gathering of the Union of Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) scheduled for April 6, Liberation reported. "I told the Emir of Qatar itself that this gentleman was not welcome in the territory of the French Republic," said Nicolas Sarkozy on France Inter. He added that they "would not welcome [because they] take (...) of speech that are not compatible with the republican ideal." According to the site Saphirnews, the government's decision would have been demanded by the Front National (FN) supported by the French-Algerian journalist Mohamed Sifaoui.
Morocco - Spain: The oil in the heart of a controversy
New crisis in perspective between Rabat and Madrid. Its origin, oil. On 16 March the government Mariano Rajoy has authorized the company Repsol to initiate surveys offshore the Canary Islands, specifically in the continental shelf in front of Morocco, while the issue of maritime delimitation between the two countries n is not yet resolved. The file is still on the menu of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf under the United Nations. Two weeks after this decision, no response from the team Benkirane. It took a movement of the Industry Minister, Abdelkader Amara in Spain last Thursday for a member of the Moroccan government decides, finally, on this issue. On a very diplomatic PJDiste expressed that such decisions should never be price unilaterally. The Spanish press called the remarks "threats" and "back problems with Morocco."Challenge in the Canary Islands
But Morocco is not the only one. Saturday in Tenerife, over 1,000 protesters broke the pad against the government's unilateral decision Rajoy. Monday is around Paulino Rivero, the president of the autonomous government of the Canary Islands region to step up. "They basically are wrong when they claim to impose an activity that seriously threatens our economic engine, our biodiversity and directly affect the water supply of the islands. And they're wrong on the form because they are turning their backs on the law and Canary Islanders, "he wrote on his blog.
Not at all in making lace, and in line with the rejection of the population, Paulino Rivero promised that his account executive use all remedies to paralyze this authorization including bringing the matter before the Spanish Supreme Court to declare precautionary suspension able to save serious damage to the islands. For the record in 2004, the same court had paralyzed prospecting company Repsol Canary Islands for environmental reasons.
President of the Canary Islands to Morocco expected
This course of action advocated by Rivero, also leader of the Nationalist Party "Coalición Canaria", has been welcomed by the deputy, Pedro Quevedo, the formation of "Nuevas Canarias". In a statement, he recalled that Rabat considers the waters been prospected for Repsol as part of its national territory. This member of the Congreso has filed a non-binding proposal, discussed this week in the lower chamber of Spanish parliament to discuss the subject thoroughly. Commenting on the warning Abdelkader Amara, Pedro Quevedo maintained that the government's unilateral decision Mariono Rajoy is "opportunistic" and "prejudicial to the interests of the Canary Islands."
This authorization will be at the heart of interviews Aura Paulino Rivero, the president of the autonomous government in the region of Canary Islands, with Moroccan officials during his official visit in April, in the kingdom.
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