By Francesco Guarascio and Tarek Amara | Reuters – Wed, Nov 28, 2012 TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia, struggling to ease economic difficulties that have provoked unrest since its democratic revolution, said on Wednesday it had secured more international lending to cover its 2013 spending. […]
RABAT | Wed Nov 21, 2012 3:38pm EST (Reuters) – Moroccan police with batons broke up a protest by more than a thousand unemployed graduates in central Rabat on Wednesday, the second protest this week before parliament votes on the first part […]
RABAT | Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:41pm EST (Reuters) – Moroccan police on Sunday broke up the first street protest against spending by King Mohammed, witnesses said. They said police with truncheons ended a rally outside parliament by a few dozen Moroccans, […]
By Andrew Hammond DOHA | Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:36pm IST (Reuters) – The Muslim Brotherhood has no intention of monopolising the revolt in Syria, the group’s deputy leader said, despite fears its close ties with Qatar and Turkey would help it […]
By Rania El Gamal and Andrew Hammond DOHA | Mon Nov 12, 2012 6:38pm EST (Reuters) – Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood finally swung behind a new opposition unity deal in Qatar, but some Syrians fear it will work in the new entity to […]
Here is a chapter list and short bits of random text: Introduction “Given the brutal police states that some of the nation-state regimes in the Arab region became, Saudi Arabia could have been viewed as an indigenous model that survived colonialism: the […]
By Andrew Hammond ADEN | Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:05pm EDT (Reuters) – A U.S.-backed military onslaught may have driven Islamist militants from towns in Yemen they seized last year, but many have regrouped into “sleeper cells” threatening anew the areas they […]
By Andrew Hammond SANAA | Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:30am EDT (Reuters) – Yemen’s interim president has won U.S. praise for cooperating in a war on al Qaeda, but his recent public support for drone strikes that sometimes kill civilians could undermine […]
By Andrew Hammond JAAR, Yemen | Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:00pm IST (Reuters) – Yemenis who fled the fighting after al Qaeda militants occupied their home towns are now under pressure to go home, but many are hesitating for fear of the […]