First Independent Mena Newspaper
The proposed UN envoy for the Sahara, ex-Romania’s Prime Minister, Petre Roman has been rejected by the Algeria-backed polisario front, according to Moroccan news website le360.com. Refusing the pick of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to fill the vacant post since May 2019 following the resignation of German Horst Köhler, will deepen further the […]
Time and money are running out for Algeria as it eats into its foreign reserves trying to avert the inevitable: bankruptcy. The country’s Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad has ordered an urgent spending cut to try to offset falling income from oil and gas. An unexpected rise in spending in 2020 due to the […]
French President Emanuel Macron made it clear that there will be “no repentance nor apologies” for the occupation of Algeria or the bloody eight-year war that ended French rule. However, the French President said he supports “symbolic acts” that encourage reconciliation between the two countries. The Algerian war of independence (1954-1962) was marked by war […]
Like the Titanic, the Algerian army continues to play while the Algerian economy sinks. In a message addressed to the domestic front, the Algerian army conducted live fire military drills near the borders with Morocco, attended by the all powerful chief of staff Said Chengriha. Warmonger Chengriha has warned in an address in front of […]
The days of the Polisario in the African Union are numbered. Reports abound of an imminent resolution demanding the freeze of the membership of the Algeria-backed militia which lacks all attributes of a state. The Polisario was introduced as a full member into the predecessor of the African Union, the Organization of African Unity, in […]
Algerian news agency refuses to pull its head from the sand as it continues to recycle fake news on an imaginary war in the Sahara. In a recent story, the agency said that Morocco refuses to acknowledge that there is war in the Sahara because that would entail recognizing the Polisario. Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser […]
Algeria will share doses of Russian covid-19 Sputnik V vaccine with its neighbor in the east reeling with spike in contaminations, Tunisia’s top diplomat Othmane Jerandi said Thursday. “The Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs has assured me that his country has not yet received the vaccine. However, he assured me that as soon as the […]
Algeria’s diplomacy has ensued painful setbacks in recent years on the Sahara issue. Morocco’s successful move to secure the border crossing with Mauritania and the recognition by the US of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara are the latest nails in the coffin of Algeria’s mulish support for the Polisario separatist militia. Isolated globally and in […]
Algeria’s new ailing President Abdelemedjid Tebboune flew back to Germany for medical treatment after a short visit in Algiers during which he signed the appropriation bill and chaired meetings with senior government and military officials. During his stay in Algiers since late December, no one had seen the president walking as observers voice fear of […]
The US Assistant Secretary of State David Schenker reiterated while on a visit to Algiers Washington’s support for Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. Schenker said at a press conference following talks with Algeria’s Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum that political dialogue on the basis of Morocco’s autonomy initiative is the only solution to the dispute. The […]