International media watchdogs criticized Algeria’s repressive measures to intimidate journalists and demanded the immediate release of journalist and fixer Saïd Chitour who has been held in pretrial detention on allegations of spying for over a month. Reporters without Borders (RSF) released a statement denouncing as “excessive” the pretrial detention of Chitour, and expressing concern over […]
The cholera epidemic is spreading rapidly in Algeria where more and more people are falling sick, hospitalized or dying from this highly contagious disease, according to local press reports. North African countries are deeply concerned about the situation, fearing contamination, as Algerian authorities were slow to react to the plague, failed to spot the early […]
A stronger trade and economic integration among the countries of the Middle East and North Africa is an essential reform that is likely to deliver economic growth on a scale and timetable that would create enough jobs and prosperity for the rapidly growing populations in these countries. “More trade integration would not only create growth […]
