The French authorities have announced lately the arrest of two French-Algerian nationals accused of spying for the Algerian regime, deepening further the diplomatic crisis between Paris and Algiers, reported the Paris-based news outlet Sahel Intelligence. According to the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, a civil servant, aged 56, working for an administration of French finance ministry […]
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have officially launched a joint military force aimed at tackling Islamist insurgencies and cross-border insecurity, deepening their security cooperation outside the framework of West Africa’s ECOWAS bloc. The new formation, called the United Force of the Alliance of Sahel States (FU-AES), was unveiled on Dec 20 at an airbase in […]
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has proposed to appoint former Islamist figure and aid, Abdelwahab Derbal, as the chairman of the High Independent Election Monitoring Body. In line with the new constitution adopted in February, the Algerian President appoints the chairman of the body, which will replace the much criticized “National Commission of election Supervision” and “National […]
