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Algeria resumes trade with Spain as it wages trade war with France

Algeria has ordered the resumption of trade with Spain as it installs trade curbs with France in retaliation for Paris support for Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara territory. The trade wars with European powerhouses reflects Algeria’s standing as the main adversary of Morocco on the Sahara issue, in which Algiers has used the Polisario proxies […]

Algeria to Grant Residency Permits to Sub-Saharan Migrants

Embarrassed by a growing surge of anti-migrant sentiment and in need of workers in farming and construction, Algeria is rushing to save its face with the launch of an operation to grant residency rights and job permits to illegal African migrants. The migrant regularization plan was announced by Algeria’s Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune in response […]

Mali: Ukrainian intel claims role in deadly ambush of Malian forces, Wagner mercenaries

Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (GUR) has claimed it had provided the Tuareg separatist rebels with information that facilitated the devastating attack on Malian government troops and their allied mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group, now called Africa Corps. Mali’s military has acknowledged, in a rare admission of a defeat, that it had suffered a “large number” […]