First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco is tightening the noose on Polisario separatists by further narrowing the area east of the berm after satellite images showed that a new wall was built 3km away from the Algerian border. Equipped with state-of-the-art radars and motion detectors, Morocco’s security wall was completed in late 1980s and has put an end to the […]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has officially called on the Algerian authorities to conduct “prompt and impartial investigations” into the allegations of torture and sexual abuse suffered by several inmates arrested during the Hirak who openly denounced the ill-treatment inflicted on them by the security services while in police custody. Rupert Colville, […]
Algeria has been slammed by the U.N. Human Rights Office for its crackdown on members of the pro-democracy Hirak movement which has picked up on its momentum. On Friday, thousands defied Covid-19 restrictions and took to the streets of Algiers and other cities across the country chanting slogans against the military junta and demanding a […]
A young Algerian succumbed to his burns after setting fire to himself near his family’s home in Mascara (385 km west of Algiers), a medical source at Oran University Hospital was quoted by local media as saying. The 23-year-old doused himself in gasoline before lighting the fire, turning himself into a torch before his […]
Morocco decided on Thursday to stop flights from and to Algeria and Egypt until March 21. The decision is part of the country’s efforts to fight the new coronavirus strains, according to Moroccan authorities. The same source added that this decision also applies to travelers who come from Algeria and Egypt through countries that still […]
The UN has laid bare the claims of Polisario regarding tensions in the Sahara and exposed to the world the lies of the Algeria-backed separatists. The UN mission in the Sahara “continues to receive unconfirmed reports of sporadic firing across the berm. The Mission continues to monitor the situation throughout the Territory, including in Guerguarat,” […]
The systematic human rights violations committed against the Sahrawi population in the Tindouf camps, southern in Algeria, have been exposed at the 46th session of the Human Rights Council convening in Geneva from Feb.22 to Mar. 23. Algerian authorities must be held accountable for the repression, torture and abduction of opponents in the polisario-controlled camps, […]
Blinded by their endemic anti-semitism, Algerian and Tunisian leaders of parties hailing from the Muslim Brotherhood called for a Maghreban union that excludes Morocco. Head of Algeria’s Islamist MSP, Abderrazak Makri, has called for a Maghreb Union without Morocco because it has normalized ties with Israel. “We should exclude Moroccans, because they brought closer to […]
The glue holding Algeria together is no longer binding. The country’s finances have been hit hard by low oil prices and the regime is unable to buy social peace as the currency, the economy and public services crumble further fueling the pro-democracy protests known as the Hirak. Two years on, the flame of the Hirak […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, sent a letter to the UN chief Antonio Guterres and members of the security council in which he exposed the propaganda of Algeria and its creation the Polisario concerning the situation in the Sahara. Both Algeria and the Polisario have spread lies to portray an imaginary armed […]