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Massad Boulos, senior adviser to US President Donald Trump on Middle Eastern and African affairs, reportedly urged Algerian authorities to reconsider their stance on the Sahara conflict during a visit to Algiers in July, according to a report by Al Hurra. The US-funded Arabic-language news outlet said Boulos pressed Algeria to either endorse Morocco’s autonomy […]
Non-governmental organizations sounded the alarm on Friday before the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva over serious violations committed by polisario separatists against children and women in the Tindouf camps in southwestern Algeria. Speaking on behalf of the Elizka Relief Foundation, Charlotte Bama denounced the forced labor of children in the Gara Djebilet […]
Algeria’s political and security establishment is reeling from the reported escape of Nacer El Djinn, the former head of the country’s internal intelligence agency (DGSI), amid escalating internal rivalries and a broader crisis of governance. El Djinn, dismissed in May, is believed to have fled the country aboard a clandestine patera bound for Spain, accompanied […]
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said on Friday that Mali’s application to launch proceedings against Algeria over the downing of a Malian military drone can only move forward if Algeria consents to the court’s jurisdiction. The case stems from an incident between March 31 and April 1, when Mali accused Algeria of deliberately shooting […]
When there is only one offer on the UN negotiating table, there is one way to go. This is true for the Algerian regime, the main stakeholder in the Sahara conflict. It is urged to negotiate peace terms on the basis of Morocco’s autonomy plan offered for the Sahara or face international sanctions. As the […]
As Pope Léon XIV prepares to honor the martyrs of the 21st century in a solemn ecumenical ceremony, French paper Le Journal du Dimanche highlights a community suffering in near silence: the Christians of Kabylie, a region in northern Algeria where religious and political repression intersect. While global attention often focuses on persecuted Christians in […]
During the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, multiple NGOs and human rights defenders exposed grave violations committed by the Polisario militias in the Tindouf camps on Algerian territory. These abuses, reportedly carried out with the complicity of the host country, Algeria, were described as systematic and widespread, particularly targeting women […]
The hypocrite Algerian regime has always said it does not recognize Israel and stands with “Palestine either oppressed or oppressor”, lashing out vehemently at Arab countries which have normalized relations with Israel within the frame of the Abraham accords brokered by Washington. Yet, Algiers has made a sudden U-turn over the weekend at the UN […]
Human rights advocates have presented several testimonies at the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, exposing the dire conditions of Sahrawis in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algerian soil and the persistence of slavery practices in these camps. The speakers also pointed to the denial of development rights, drawing a […]
Algerian newspaper El-Chorouk, mouthpiece of the ruling military regime, has unleashed a vicious rant against the United States and its President Donald Trump, labelling America as “The biggest terrorist State in the world”. The daily slammed U.S. imperialism and foreign policy around the world, especially in the Middle Est, describing Trump in scurrilous and vitriolic […]