Category: Algeria

Oil plunge worsens Algeria’s combustible mix

April 22, 2020

Time for reform has run out for Algeria with the plunge in oil prices further worsening combustible factors of financial hardships, corrupt leadership and social ... Read More

State-run Sonatrach inks exploration & partnership MoU with Exxon

April 21, 2020

Gas and oil giant Sonatrach has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US Exxon to identify exploration opportunity in the North African country and ... Read More

Sheikh Tamin pledges Algeria help in covid-19 pandemic

April 20, 2020

Qatar Emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, has pledged the Gulf country’s help to Algeria in the fight against novel covid-19 that has infected 2,629 ... Read More

Covid-19: Polisario-Controlled Camps on Verge of Implosion

April 18, 2020

Anger and frustration of the Sahrawis sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Lahmada camps, southern Algeria, have reached their apex as the separatists’ leaders continue to ignore ... Read More

US vetoed Former Algerian FM from becoming Libya’s UN Envoy

April 17, 2020

Former Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamaamra acknowledged officially that he had to backtrack on his bid to become a UN special envoy for Libya after ... Read More

Covid-19: Polisario leaders divert humanitarian assistance to line up their pockets

April 15, 2020

The total blockade imposed by the polisario leaders on the Sahrawis sequestered in the Tindouf camps under the pretext of the coronavirus pandemic has boosted ... Read More

Algerian author bags prestigious IPAF prize

April 15, 2020

The 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) has gone to Algerian author Abdelouahab Aissaoui for his book 'Spartan Court'. The Djelfa-born author was announced ... Read More

Algeria braces for austerity amid frail social peace exacerbated by coronavirus

April 13, 2020

The failure of major oil exporting countries to reach an agreement about a 10 million bpd reduction was received in Algeria as an omen that ... Read More

US rejects ex- Algerian FM’s appointment as head of UN Special Envoy to war-torn Libya

April 10, 2020

The United States has opposed the choice of former Algerian foreign minister Ramtane Lamamra as UN Special Envoy to crisis-hit neighboring Libya to replace Lebanese ... Read More

Sahara: Roundtable process, only way to reach final political Solution – Security Council

April 10, 2020

The UN Security Council has reiterated the parameters it had set out in its resolutions 2414, 2440, 2468, and 2494 to achieve a final solution ... Read More