Algeria has responsibility to guarantee humanitarian access to Tindouf Camps

Morocco has underlined Algeria’s responsibility, as host country, to guarantee safe and unrestricted humanitarian access to the Tindouf camps and to allow free registration of the populations sequestered in the camps, in accordance with its obligations and the provisions of international humanitarian law. This was outlined in a speech delivered by Morocco’s Permanent Representative in […]

Corruption scandal at a South African-based organization

An internal investigation was launched within the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), after several complaints were leveled against this instrument of the African Union for corruption, nepotism, favoritism and intimidation. Paris-based “Jeune Afrique” which reported the news said it took knowledge of the 26-page audit document drafted in July by APRM employees.   The document […]

US State Department draws bleak picture of human rights in Algeria

The US State Department exposed the degradation of human rights of the military regime in Algiers which has deployed brutal tactics to silence dissent including pretrial detention, torture, cham terrorism charges and free speech muzzeling. The State Department’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released this March, starts by questioning the atmosphere of elections […]