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France Culture: Bienvenue dans les bidonvilles de Casa – MAMFAKINCH
Poignante émission radio sur les réalités de la ville de Casablanca… L’envers de la carte postale !
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Libye : une entreprise française participait à la répression | Rue89
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Le groupe Bull n’a pas souhaité s’expliquer. Les preuves dénichées dans ce bâtiment ne sont pourtant qu’une demi-surprise. La semaine dernière, un document publié par Mediapart révélait qu’en 2007, le sulfureux Ziad Takieddine avait servi d’intermédiaire entre le régime libyen et I2e, une entreprise appartenant alors au même groupe qu’Amesys. Les deux sociétés ont été absorbées par Bull en 2009. L’ancien patron d’Amesys, Philippe Vannier, est depuis devenu PDG de Bull.
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Flying Qaddafi Air – By Sarah A. Topol | Foreign Policy
Inside Gaddafi’s luxurious place. This bastard boasted he was one of the people living under a tent.
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Diplomatic standoff after Gaddafi’s family make a break for the border | World news | The Guardian
New details have emerged on the escape route used by Gaddafi’s family to escape to Algeria.
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The manhunt for Gaddafi and his most powerful sons, Saif al-Islam, Mutassim and Khamis, is moving southwards to the Bani Walid-Sebha desert road. It was being assisted by western intelligence and special forces, including MI6 officers and the SAS. However, they are thin on the ground. Their role is to pick up signals from intercepting equipment not available to the Libyans and identify their significance with NTC help. Any attempt to detain Gaddafi and his remaining sons would be carried out by Libyans, British sources stressed.
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The diplomatic row that has blown up in the wake of the family’s escape reflects the tensions caused by the western spread of the Arab spring, as the Algerian government tries to ensure it is not the next domino to fall. It has so far refused to recognise the provisional NTC government in Tripoli. For its part, the NTC is seeking to ensure Algeria does not become a base from which Gaddafi loyalists could mount a counter-revolution.
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The country’s ambassador to the UN, Mourad Benmehidi, told the BBC that in the desert regions there was a “holy rule of hospitality” by which his government had accepted the family on humanitarian grounds.
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Key town, key tribe
The town of Bani Walid and the dominant local tribe, the Warfallah, now find themselves at the heart of the endgame in the struggle for Libya. The Warfallah are the country’s largest tribe and have a long history of ambiguous relations with Gaddafi.
They were sometimes described as a pillar of the regime, which claimed last month that thousands of Warfallah tribesmen were going to defend Tripoli. But the rescue did not come, a reflection perhaps of Warfallah ambivalence and a painful history.
While in power, Gaddafi responded brutally to any suggestion of disloyalty in Warfallah ranks. Bani Walid rose up in the mid-1990s after 55 officers from the area were arrested and accused of spying for the US. Some officers were executed, leaving a lasting legacy of bitterness towards Gaddafi.
That history suggests that Bani Walid may not prove an enduring haven for the ousted leader and his sons. The military situation in and around the town was described on Tuesday as mixed and fluid.
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What does Gaddafi’s fall mean for Africa? – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
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Cable Viewer: Samira Kinani, Moroccan veteran human rights advocate, featured on an American cable released by Wikileaks this week.
Samira Kinani toujous égale à elle même si on en croit ce cable diplomatique américain publié par Wikileaks cette semaine.
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Eid shooting at Copenhagen mosque – Telegraph
Why hasn’t this made the headlines?
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Why did protests in Algeria fail to gain momentum? by Lahcen Achy | The Middle East Channel
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Brian Whitaker’s take on Algeria’s futile bet on a loser.
Hisham Almiraat
A Moroccan blogger's rambling on culture and politics
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