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Presidents of Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla Oued Eddahab regions, Sidi Hamdi Ould Errachid and Yanja El Khattat, have debunked the slanderous allegations circulated by the Polisario and its mentor, Algeria, about human rights in the Sahara. “These are actually outrageous fabrications, which are part of a shameless political manipulation of human rights,” the presidents […]
Member of the European Parliament Olivier Chastel has raised the issue of the ongoing embezzlement by the Polisario and Algeria of EU humanitarian aid sent annually to the Sahrawis sequestered in the Tindouf camps. This confirms a growing concern of MEPs over this misappropriation, which was decried by Italian human rights NGOs. In his written […]
Merchants in the Polisario-Run Tindouf camps in Southwestern Algeria stepped up their protests against a leadership they blame for the surge of coronavirus cases. The protesters decried the endemic corruption within the Polisario ranks with blessings from the Algerian mentor. A lockdown has deprived many merchants and artisans from their source of revenue without benefiting […]
Lebanon has decided to diversify its oil suppliers from 2021 after main supplier, Algeria’s Sonatrach, was accused of providing the Middle East country with adulterated fuel. Lebanon Energy Minister Raymond Ghajar told Bloomberg that the Lebanese government has opted to multiply for the next coming three years its fuel suppliers. “We would prefer to have […]
The Polisario has suffered another setback in Spain, where Pedro Sanchez’s government has rejected attempts by the Algeria-backed separatist movement to lay some improbable responsibility on Madrid with regard to the Moroccan Sahara. “Spain considers itself detached from any international responsibility for the administration” of the Sahara. And this, “since the letter sent on […]
Algeria decided Monday to gradually re-open mosques, beaches and gardens, closed since mid-March owing to covid-19 pandemic. The decision concerns only mosques capable of accommodating more than 1,000 worshippers who are also compelled to wear masks and observe social distancing. The country’s beaches and parks will now be accessible provided that citizens abide by the […]
Algeria has lambasted its exclusion by the European Union from the shortlist of countries whose citizens and residents can travel to Schengen area amid ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Brussels has excluded people from Algeria from traveling into the EU amid a rise in coronavirus cases in the North African country, which posted 31,465 contaminations since February […]
The Algerian regime made a volt-face concerning the coronavirus outbreak ending weeks of denial and asking forurgent help to contain the virus in the Polisario-run camps. Algeria has abdicated its sovereignty, giving a part of its territories and leaving thousands of Sahraouis under the mercy of a totalitarian separatist militia, which unrelentingly crack down on […]
The Spanish prosecutors are building cases against the Polisario chief Brahim Ghali and his close aides for the crimes, abuses and human rights violations committed against sequestered Sahrawis in the Tindouf Camps, Southern Algeria. Several complaints have been filed in Spain by associations and a young Sahrawi girl for human rights violations against the separatists […]
Correspondent in Algeria of French news channel France24 was arrested Tuesday on what his lawyer branded “serious charges”. Abdelghani Badi told TSA the prosecutor of the Bir Mourad Raïs court in capital Algiers ordered his client, Moncef Aït Kaci, to be locked. Badi did not elaborate on the charges but said they are “serious”. However, […]