The African Union (AU) reiterated its push for the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom to lift all sanctions against Zimbabwe at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. AU chairman — Senegal’s president Macky Sall — said the “harsh measures continue to fuel a sense of injustice against an entire people, and […]
Algeria’s foreign minister Ahmed Attaf alluded that the absence of pro-Palestinian protests in his country was due to a lack of “culture of protests” inherent to “longstanding democracies.” This came in a podcast on Aljazeera while answering a question on the mismatch between pro-Palestinian rhetoric and the lack of popular expressions of support for Palestine. […]
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has urged the U.S. Department of State to include Algeria on its Special Watch List for engaging and tolerating severe violations of religious freedom. In recent years, Algerian authorities have shown more hostility towards religious minorities, forcibly closing dozens of Protestant churches and prosecuting Ahmadiyya Muslims for gathering […]
