UN Security Council

Afreximbank grants Tunisia $700m loan

Tunisia has received $700 million in credit facility from African Export–Import Bank known as Afreximbank.   President Kais Saied, according to a statement by the state-run television, approved the credit line requested by the Central Bank of Tunis.   The statement neither provided details on the period of the loan nor the interest rate.   […]

Algeria continues crackdown in Kabylie, sentences poet Samir Mokrani to two years in prison

The fierce repression carried out by Algeria’s ruling junta against activists in Kabylie was evidenced again this week when militant poet Samir Mokrani was sentenced to two years in prison for his peaceful activism in favor of the autonomy of Kabylie. The conviction of Samir Mokrani, Monday February 6 by the court of Tizi Ouzzou, […]

Renewed Protests in Tindouf Camps by Disenchanted Youth

Anger and frustration are building up among the youth in the Polisario-run camps of Tindouf in South-western Algeria who are fed up with the Polisario and Algeria trading with their suffering. Sahrawi media speak of the setting up of a new movement dubbed “The Sahrawi Initiative for Change” that has been gaining momentum in Tindouf […]