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Algeria Rejects Pro-Morocco Spanish Ambassador

In a move that shows that hostility to Morocco remains a guiding line in Algeria’s foreign policy, Algerian authorities have refused to accept the nomination of the new Spanish Ambassador in Algiers José Maria Ridao because he is deemed “too close to Morocco.” Ridao, Spain’s former ambassador to the Unesco, is an intellectual close to […]

Ex-Mauritanian leader nabbed Tuesday on corruption charges

Former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz was arrested Tuesday night and detained at the anti-corruption division of a court in the capital Nouakchott, Le360.ma reports citing his defense team. Ould Abdelazziz since leaving power in 2019 has been in the eye of the storm with the country’s justice hunting him down for corruption and public […]

Abandoned in desert: EU accused of migrant ‘dumping’ in North Africa, Sahel

The recently endorsed EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum “is going to run into political and possibly also legal challenges and a largely hostile international setting,” says a new study by the Elcano Royal Institute, while especially left-wing organizations denounce it as “the result of a deliberate EU policy aimed at creating a deterrent effect […]