President of Algeria Abdelmajid Tebboune

RSF Calls on Algerian Govt to end prosecution & harassment of journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Algerian authorities to end the harassment and prosecution of journalists in a bid to gag the media and throttle freedom of the press. In a statement issued Friday, RSF says the crackdown on independent journalists and bloggers has intensified despite the coronavirus epidemic, noting that four journalists […]

Boat capsizes off Mauritania, 58 migrants died

In Mauritania, at least 58 people, including women and children, were killed after a boat carrying dozens of migrants capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off the West African nation, the UN’s migration agency said. The boat carrying at least 150 people was low on fuel while approaching Mauritania before it capsized, the International Organization for […]

Algeria’s APS news agency needs an ethics and geography lesson

Blinded by an endemic hostility to Morocco’s territorial integrity, Algeria’s official news agency has hit a new low conflating the Egyptian Western Sahara/desert with Morocco’s southern provinces. The Algerian-regime’s official mouthpiece reported on May 3 that two Egyptian firms plan to invest 1 billion dollars in oil projects in Western Sahara. But because of their […]