Category: Algeria

Algeria-France: Air Algérie eyes acquisition of bankrupted Aigle Azur

September 9, 2019

Algeria’s national carrier Air Algérie is interested in acquiring its main rival on Algeria-France route, Aigle Azur, which has grounded its aircraft over bankruptcy. A ... Read More

Algeria should brace for end of oil

September 9, 2019

As pro-democracy protests continue to rattle the Algerian regime, Algeria marches ahead to an economic disaster as domestic energy consumptions nears levels of gas and ... Read More

Polisario’s violation of prisoners’ rights under media scrutiny

September 5, 2019

The Polisario separatist group, has set up prisons within Algerian territory where prisoners endure all sorts of degrading treatment and human rights violations, a local ... Read More

Turkey’s Tosyalı Holding to launch economic zone in Senegal

September 5, 2019

Tosyali Holding, one of the world’s leading steel giants, has announced it will open an economic zone in Senegal, the second African country to offer ... Read More

Leading Moroccan labor union calls for opening Moroccan-Algerian borders

September 4, 2019

One of Morocco’s largest labor unions, CDT, called for a march to the shared borders with Algeria to demand their reopening after decades of closure. ... Read More

Noose tightens on Polisario leadership as protests spread in Tindouf camps

September 3, 2019

The leadership of the Algerian-backed separatist group, the Polisario, is facing a new challenge to its grip on the Tindouf camps as Sahraouis there stage ... Read More

Algeria: Army Chief presses for elections to be held before year’s end

September 3, 2019

Head of the Algerian army has called on electoral commission to hold presidential elections before end of the year as the country drags into political ... Read More

Sahel-Sahara: Turkish Writer Sheds Light on Polisario’s Ties to Regional Terrorism

September 2, 2019

Turkish writer Mohamed Kaddo Afendi Oglu, an expert in Arab-Turkish relations, has confirmed the connections of the Polisario with terror networks threatening the Sahara-Sahel region’s ... Read More

Signing the “No to Trump” Petition Might be Costly for the Polisario

August 29, 2019

The Polisario has once again evidenced its lack of clear-sightedness and its misconception of geopolitics when it joined a group of socialist countries that reject ... Read More

Algeria: Head of internal security sacked in wake of deadly stampede

August 26, 2019

Algeria’s interim President Abdelkader Bensalah has replaced head of internal security, Abdelkader Kara Bouhadba, after five people died Thursday in a stampede, at a rap ... Read More