One-Day Campaign for the Maghreb Union

In 1989, a trade agreement for economic and political unity has been signed by Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania, creating which is known as the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA: Union du Maghreb Arabe).

However, nothing really interesting came out of this agreement. Summits are always blocked because of old tensions between countries, especially Morocco and Algeria about the Western Sahara,and no useful results have been obtained for years now. People from the region barely know each other, and the Union doesn’t really exist.

Many young people in the Maghreb are longing to get rid of their rivalries and disagreements and create an efficient unity based on economic agreements that would be beneficial for these countries and later on a political union to give the region a real power.

As official politics failed to do more than speeches and nice words, bloggers have decided to ask for better actions.

This is why tunisian blogger Big_Trap_Boy launched a one-day campaign on the blogosphere and asked bloggers from Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and Libya to join and make June 1st a blogging day around the Maghreb Union.

The idea is to have a large number of bloggers from the region write something about the Union, whatever they want, even if it is to criticize it. The important thing is to talk about it and have a starting point to discuss the issue.