French travel documentary exposes Algeria’s police state

The Long awaited for Algeria episode of the French documentary, J’irai dormir chez vous (I will come to sleep in your house), was aired on Mar 8 revealing a closed-off and impoverished country, where locals are banned by omnipresent police from interacting with foreigners or tourists. The documentary producer Antoine De Maximy has spent two-weeks […]

Wall Street Journal zooms on Kabylia’s independence struggle

The Wall Street Journal highlighted the independence declaration by Kabylia’s MAK movement after years of repression under the Algerian regime. “After half a century of working with human-rights and democratic groups in Algeria to liberalize the one-party police state, Kabyle spokesmen, including Mr. Mehenni, brought the case for decolonization to the U.N. A few days […]

One Man Shot Dead in a Coffee-shop in Marrakesh, Three wounded Terrorist Track Dismissed

A shootout in a coffee-shop in Marrakesh Thursday evening left one person dead and three others wounded. According to initial accounts, two hooded armed men on a scooter stopped in front of the coffee-shop and shot at a customer who was sitting on the terrace, leaving their target dead and three other customers wounded, before […]