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Algeria harasses Moroccan players, confiscates Jerseys showing Kingdom’s full map

Algerian authorities held visiting RS Berkane team for more than ten hours at Algiers airport, after confiscating their jerseys showing a full Morocco map, including the Sahara territory. Two-time CAF Confederation Cup winner RS Berkane travelled to Algiers to play title-holder USM Alger on Sunday. But the harassment of Algerian authorities is casting a political […]

Algeria uses separatists as proxies to unsettle Mali after withdrawal of Polisario recognition

The Alqaeda-linked JNIM terrorists and Tuareg separatists have joined forces in a series of tactical attacks on the capital Bamako and several localities in Mali’s desert north, a region long treated by Algeria as a buffer zone to export terrorist activities. Led by Iyad Ag Ghali, the JNIM, is an offshoot of Al Qaeda in […]

Libya: Tunis, UN call for urgent signing of UN-facilitated Dialogue Agreement

Tunisia and the UN once again called on Libyan political protagonists to urgently ink the UN-brokered National Dialogue Agreement in the face of growing instability and the giant strides of the Islamic State in the North African country. Meeting all factions for the first time, Head of the UNSMIL Martin Kobler reminded the protagonists of […]