RSF Press Freedom Report 2008
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have released their 2008 world report on press freedom. As usual, a sobering read.
The Maghreb countries have individual reports: Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, but Western Sahara remains a footnote to the Moroccan report. Read for yourself.
[picture: this year's maghreb press freedom champ: mauritania]
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Did you see the Announcement of Prize for Best Investigative Story of 2007, Marocco?
I copy it here:
"As a follow up to the 2006 and 2007 Fund for Investigative Journalism in Morocco, Press Now announces the launch of the Prize for the Best Investigative Story of 2007.
1st prize: 15000 DH
2nd prize: 8000 DH
3rd prize: 6000 DH "
see:
http://www.pressnow.nl/news.asp?NewsID=146
No, but please tell me if there's a winner in category three ... "Morocco and its relations with neighbouring (and /or close) states."
top Algerian Rai musician Cheb Khaled and Top Arabic songer Kadhem Saher will celebrating in the „occupied Western Sahara” city of Dakhla
I think that no of them know where Dakhla is located really ??? may their managers don’t tell them since the mekhezen put huge honorarium on table….
http://goufia.blogspot.com/
Yeah, I saw that over here. It is surprising that Cheb Khaled would go there as an Algerian. Whatever his own opinions (or lack of opinions, perhaps), he could run into serious trouble in Algeria this way. Apart from his rather malplacé call for Jihad in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, I've never seen him as very political?
And Gipsy Kings is playing too. Maybe Sting will be on next year, and in 2010 Bono - claiming something strange in favour of Moroccan tally-ho... ;)
Actually, one of the former Gipsy Kings (he abdicated) is Moroccan. To make things even weirder, he's the brother of this guy, so they must be pretty used to international controversy already. Sting, I suppose he could do Desert Rose, and U2 could sing something off of War...
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