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King Mohammed VI’s call for Algeria to open a frank and direct dialogue to overcome divergences between the two neighboring countries continues to garner support at the international level. The support for the royal initiative was renewed on Thursday by the United Nations. “We have always been very supportive of increased dialogue between Algeria and […]
Not content with its decision to close its land borders with Morocco since 1994, Algeria has just announced it deployed a barbed wire wall of nearly 6,000 km along its borders, equipped with surveillance cameras and tens of control towers. Moroccan Al Massae daily, which reported the news Thursday, commented that Algeria has sealed its […]
A group of sixty Palestinians, who escaped from Israeli occupation and headed to Algeria hoping to find a better life, lived a nightmare. They suffered all kinds of abuse, mistreatment and violation of their human rights, according to press reports. They were detained for three months in very poor conditions and treated like offenders while […]
Morocco has urged Algeria to respond officially to the proposal solemnly made by King Mohammed VI on November 6 for a direct and candid dialogue between the two neighboring countries in order to dispel the transient and objective differences that are impeding the development of bilateral relations. This came at a meeting held Monday in […]
A fifth term for Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika would be viewed as an insult and a mark of contempt (hogra) for the Algerian people, said the Financial Times in a column focusing on the deepening political crisis in the country and growing social woes. Even if, for now, the anger of Algerian people is dormant, […]
Few weeks after King Mohammed VI called for a frank and direct dialogue between Morocco and Algeria, with the ultimate aim being the reinvigoration of the Maghreb Union, and after the many messages of support, praising the royal call, Algeria has finally emerged from its silence. But as one might expect, Algeria did not respond […]
Algeria has been slammed for summary expulsions of more than 37,000 migrants in the desert border with Niger between 2014 and 2018. Algeria’s interior ministry confirmed the figure but claimed that the abandoned migrants were displaced to the border by virtue of an agreement with Niger’s authorities. Human rights groups however hold Algeria responsible for […]
The UK’s Financial Times drew bleak prospects for Algeria whose ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika prepares for a fifth term that risks prolonging Algeria’s economic and political crisis. Maintaining Bouteflika, who has been ruling Algeria since 1999, as President “ threatens to prolong the political paralysis in a country facing the monumental challenge of transforming its […]
A plane of the Algerian airline carrying head of the Polisario separatist group, Barhim Ghali, was left waiting for long in Addis Ababa airport where no one came to welcome the President of the self-declared republic. No African Union or Ethiopian official came to receive the separatist leader who arrived in Addis Ababa to attend […]
The recent call launched by King Mohammed VI to neighboring Algeria for dialogue is an offer to address the challenges facing the two countries and the entire Maghreb region. This is the substance of Washington’s response to the King’s proposal for a direct, open and frank dialogue with Algeria to dispel the transient and objective […]