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Algeria intensifies crackdown on free press, rights activists amid covid-19 outbreak

The advent of the coronavirus did not prevent Algerian authorities from continuing their clampdown on the free press and human rights activists. After banning Hirak movement marches, the newly recycled civilian leadership whose strings are pulled by the same old military junta arrested well-known Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni who has widely reported on Algeria’s protest […]

Morocco: Tourist Arrivals at 8 million up to August

Tourist arrivals in Morocco up to August 2017 have grown 10.4% compared to the same period last year to stand at 8 million tourists, the tourism ministry said. International tourist arrivals rose 13.1% while Moroccans living abroad visiting their homeland jumped 8.1%, the Ministry said in its latest statistics covering the January-August 2017 period. Arrivals […]

Algeria faces double defeat following French assembly and UNSC votes

Algeria suffered two diplomatic setbacks in the final days of October, with the French National Assembly recommending the repeal of a decades-old migration accord and the United Nations Security Council endorsing Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara territory. On Oct. 30, lawmakers in France voted in favor of a resolution introduced by the far-right Rassemblement […]