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Int’l Rights Watchdogs Slam Algeria for Discriminating against Amazigh Minority

Human Rights Watch, EuroMed Rights, Amnesty International, and Front Line Defenders have condemned in the strongest terms Algeria’s discrimination against the Amazigh (Berber) minority and called for dropping all charges against Kamaleddine Fekhar, a leading human rights activist and his 40 co-defendants. The international rights NGOs recalled, in a statement published on Human Rights Watch […]

UN concerned over growing human rights violations in Algeria

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has reiterated serious concern about the serious human rights violations and growing restrictions imposed by Algerian authorities on fundamental freedoms. “In Algeria, I am concerned about the growing restrictions on fundamental freedoms, including the increasing number of arrests and detentions of human rights defenders, members of civil […]

Sound Energy to Commercialize ‘Sidi Mokhtar’ Gas by end of 2017

Sound Energy, the African and European focused upstream gas company, announced that it will start commercializing the first gas from Sidi Mokhtar in Essaouira Basin, central Moroco, by the end of 2017. Sound Energy, which received authorization last year to explore Sidi Mokhtar License area covering 2,700 square kilometres, confirmed that two wells Koba-1 and […]