First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco’s opposition party, Istiqlal, wrote to the President of the EU parliament about the recent surge in aid embezzlement by the Polisario, an Algerian-backed separatist group whose leaders trade in foodstuff sent to the Tindouf camps population. Istiqlal MPs deplored in a letter that this diversion of humanitarian aid takes place in full connivance of […]
The Algerian junta, with its future constitution, seeks to muzzle its civil society and to divert attention from its internal problems by extending its influence beyond its borders through destabilizing neighboring countries. Reports about these destabilizing attempts and about Algeria’s connections with the terrorist groups roaming in the Sahel-Sahara region made the headlines from time […]
Known as “Madame Maya”, the Algerian businesswoman, who passed herself off as the hidden daughter of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison. An Algiers court also fined her six million dinars ($47,000) and ordered the confiscation of her properties, the official news agency APS said. It said Zoulikha […]
The Algerian Army, which continues to hold firmly the reins of power in the country, making and unmaking presidents, shows no signs of giving up its privileges and of course its senseless perpetual hostility against Morocco. In the army’s latest monthly magazine, “El Djeich”, the Algerian Generals, the de factor rulers, voice their deep hatred […]
Protesters staged sit-ins in different Algerian towns to mourn the rape and abhorrent murder of a 19 year-old girl in the country where the feminist movement is struggling against a patriarchal society to assert their rights. The charred body of Chaïma was found in a deserted petrol station in Thenia, 80 km (50 miles) […]
Malian political parties and media spoke out about the violation of their borders by the Algerian army, which is said to have made an incursion of hundreds of kilometers in the north of the country. Mali, which is in the midst of a transition process, has been plagued by the proliferation of terrorist groups mostly […]
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Philippo Grandi, hailed on Tuesday cooperation ties with Morocco, commending the Kingdom’s commitment and full respect of the rights of refugees and migrants. “I thank Morocco and I am pleased with the quality of cooperation with the Moroccan authorities, which continue to manage a large population of refugees and […]
A French national of Algerian descent wanted in France for drug trafficking was nabbed Monday in Marrakech by Moroccan police. The fugitive was on Interpol’s most wanted list. He was captured after French judicial authorities issued an international arrest warrant against him for his links with an international network of trafficking of drug and ecstasy, […]
The widely-circulated US daily New York Times painted a very bleak picture of the situation in Algeria, where signals for a new dawn are fading away, and where the system renews itself ceaselessly and refuses to change. The revolt in the streets that began last year, known as Hirak, initially appeared to signal a new […]
The sheikhs and notables of the Sahrawi tribes of the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab region have denounced the desperate provocations made recently by the enemies of the territorial integrity of Morocco. At a meeting held Sunday in Dakhla, the Sahrawi notables rebuked the provocative and hostile move made lately by Amanitou Haidar seeking to set up a […]