The Covid-19 pandemic, which affected so far 1,423 and killed 173 people in Algeria, does not prevent the Algerian justice system from punishing “Hirak” activists and journalists. On Monday, Abdelouahab Fersaoui, president of the Rassemblement-Actions-Jeunesse (RAJ), an association at the forefront of the anti-regime popular movement, known as “Hirak”, was handed a one year in […]
The United States, the United Kingdom and Spain have issued security alerts, warning their citizens residing in or visiting Algeria against any travel to the city of Tindouf or the surrounding Polisario-controlled camps. The travel warnings came amid ongoing demonstrations organized by young Sahrawis in the city and its surroundings against the Polisario and Algerian […]
A Tunisian security officer killed two of his colleagues and two visitors of a synagogue, in an attack that bodes ill for Tunisia’s image and its slowly recovering tourism sector. The attack targeted an old synagogue in Djerba, crowded with visitors and hundreds of Jewish pilgrims from Europe and Israel. The attacker, a police officer […]
