The Royal Navy coast guard assisted between Wednesday (July 29) and Saturday (August 1) 183 would-be immigrants, including 12 women and two minors, all of them sub-Saharans, a military source said Saturday. The would-be immigrants were in difficulty on board makeshift boats in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The Sub-Saharans, some of whom were in […]
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika might step down from power Tuesday, April 2, two days after he named a caretaker government that will lead the country through transition. Local television networks, Ennahar and El Bilad, Sunday released the information shortly after Bouteflika named a caretaker administration to be led by Noureddine Bedoui, the recently appointed Prime Minister. […]
The UN Secretary General’s Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq downplayed the resurrection by UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara Sataffan de Mistura of the partition plan, that was categorically rejected by Morocco twenty years ago. De Mistura has said in a briefing to the Security Council last year that he raised the concept of […]
