As the Security Council was unequivocal in condemning the Polisario’s destabilizing acts in the buffer strip in the Sahara, the separatists had no option but to bend to the calls for its withdrawal from Guerguarate, in the southernmost tip of the Sahara, where it has conducted banditry activities and hindered commercial traffic. The polisario’s mouthpiece […]
Algeria, which had persecuted, chased and driven back manu-militari thousands of sub-Saharan migrants, is now mistreating Yemeni refugees who fled the war in their country. According to the human rights watchdog Amnesty International, Algerian authorities are holding seven Yemeni asylum seekers in “harsh and unsafe conditions” in a prison in Algiers and are threatening them […]
Islamist groupings across North Africa – who had long faced severe repression from the recently deposed dictators and were commonly denounced by the West as security threats – now lead three of the four new democratically elected governments in the region. But the Islamist parties that have suddenly found themselves in power across North Africa […]
