Category: Algeria

Anti-Regime protests continue in Algiers for sixth week

March 30, 2019

Nearly 1 million Algerians staged the biggest demonstration yet for the sixth successive Friday, demanding the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the ruling elite ... Read More

Algeria: Chairman of business leaders’ forum resigns after denied travel abroad

March 29, 2019

The chairman of Algerian business leaders’ forum has resigned from his position few days after he was banned from leaving the country and put on ... Read More

Algeria: dozens of pro-Bouteflika business tycoons barred from fleeing

March 28, 2019

Around 100 Algerian top business tycoons, including the leader of Algeria’s business forum, have been put on a blacklist and denied exit from the country ... Read More

Algerian army declares Bouteflika ‘unfit to lead’

March 26, 2019

The Algerian army, the kingmaker in the Algerian political order, has finally stated the obvious by declaring “Bouteflika unfit to lead,” four weeks after millions ... Read More

Marrakech: Ministers from Some 40 African Countries Meet to Support UN Process on Sahara

March 25, 2019

Morocco hosts this Monday in Marrakech an African Ministerial Conference on African Union’s support to the United Nations political process on Sahara. The event, which ... Read More

Russia refrains from supporting Bouteflika to secure long-term interest

March 23, 2019

Russia has surprisingly shied away from supporting the authoritarian status quo in Algeria as it seeks to secure its long term interest in the North ... Read More

Sahara: Guterres Announces Increase of MINURSO’s Budget

March 23, 2019

The UN Secretary-General has announced in a recent report that the budget of the UN mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, will be increased by 7.6 ... Read More

Solving Sahara issue would benefit whole Maghreb- UN Envoy

March 22, 2019

Finding a lasting and mutually acceptable solution to the Sahara would benefit the whole region of the Maghreb, the UN Personal Envoy for the Sahara ... Read More

Parties to Sahara conflict to hold third roundtable-UN

March 22, 2019

The parties to the Sahara conflict Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the separatist Polisario front will convene a third meeting to discuss a realistic, political, lasting ... Read More

Sahara: UN Envoy Hopes Geneva II Roundtable will Strengthen Positive Momentum Initiated at Geneva I

March 21, 2019

The UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Horst Köhler, expressed hope that the second roundtable discussions, that started this Thursday afternoon, would "reinforce the ... Read More