end of quarantine for repatriated Moroccans from China

Algeria fears Tuareg independence spill over

As the Tuaregs brace for a new war to liberate the Azawad territory in what came to be called northern Mali, Algeria is watching closely, fearing a spill over into its own large and impoverished Tuareg community. The Tuaregs sit on significant oil and gas reserves in Algeria’s south and their territories remain the least […]

Mali: UN Security Council expressed satisfaction over new transitional authorities establishment

Second UN speech in New York about Mali since the August 18 coup d’état. While the Security Council had been quite aloof the first time, aligned with ECOWAS’s demands, it was unanimously more encouraging this time. In its presidential statement, a statement of the utmost importance by UN standards, the Security Council first of all […]

Algerian News Agency caught in the act of fabricating stories

The lies of the Algerian news agency APS know no bounds. This mouthpiece of the military regime was forced to see in the mirror its own falsehood when the UN Human Rights issued a denial decrying the lack of professionalism by the agency and asked it to withdraw a story. It came as the last […]