russia-africa-summit oct 2019

Sahara: Morocco Hands UNSG, Security Council President Evidence of Polisario’s Breaches of Buffer Zone

Morocco has handed to the UN Secretary General Antonio Gterres and to the President of the Security Council, Peru’s Permanent Representative Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, several evidences of the Algeria-backed Polisario’s breaches of the 1991 ceasefire in the Sahara. At separate meetings with the two UN officials Wednesday in New York, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita explained the […]

U.S. report decries deteriorating human rights situation & growing repression in Algeria

The human rights situation in Algeria deteriorated in 2023 due to increased repression and violation of the freedoms of expression, press, assembly, and association, says the U.S State Department in its latest annual country report on the human rights situation in Algeria. The report cites documented cases of torture, arbitrary arrests, and inhuman treatment of […]

Security Council Resolution 2351 Stresses Algeria’s Role in Settling Sahara Issue- Ambassador

The UN Security Council Resolution 2351, adopted last month, reiterated the call on Algeria to shoulder its responsibility in settling the decades-long Sahara dispute and reaffirmed the pre-eminence of Morocco’s autonomy initiative as a basis for negotiation, said Morocco’s Permanent Representative in the UN, Ambassador Omar Hilale. Hilale, who was speaking in Kingstown in Saint […]