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by Hamza Mekouar Agence France-Presse CASABLANCA, Morocco (AFP) — From Casablanca to Algiers via Tunis, the chants belted out across football stadiums echo young North African fans’ frustrations not connected to the highs and lows of the beautiful game. Chants of “F’bladi delmouni!” (“Oppressed in my country!”) at the demonstrations that have been commonplace in Algeria since last year originated on the noisy terraces manned by the ultras of Morocco’s Raja Casablanca. The song of […]
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AFP) – Dozens of activists linked to the Hirak protest movement that rocked northern Morocco in 2016 and 2017 had prison sentences of up to 20 years upheld by a court of appeal on Friday. The ruling against the 42 protesters in the western city of Casablanca was met with cries of “corrupt state” from relatives. The Al-Hirak al-Shaabi, or “Popular Movement”, protests took hold in the country’s marginalized Rif region in October 2016. […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French actress Madeleine LeBeau, the last surviving member of the cast of “Casablanca”, has died at the age of 92, her family said on Sunday. LeBeau, who died on May 1, played the role of Yvonne, the spurned girlfriend of Humphrey Bogart’s character Rick Blaine in the classic 1942 movie that also starred Ingrid Bergman. Born in June 1923 in Antony near Paris, LeBeau fled Paris in 1940 after the German occupation […]
