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French dairy Lactalis Corporation has threatened to end operating in Algeria as it fusses about obstruction of its activities in the North African country by a group of workers who have closed the factory over what the firm calls “personal interests”. The small group of workers has unlawfully seized the factory and prevented other colleagues […]
Algeria is facing an acute shortage of coronavirus tests as the virus spreads exponentially among its citizens making the number of confirmed cases a tiny tip of a giant Covid-19 iceberg. Already one of the countries with least tests on the African continent, people taking Coronavirus checks have to wait up to 15 days for […]
The Tindouf camps are in turmoil despite the coronavirus induced confinement. This time, it was the tradesmen operating inside these camps who took to the streets, accusing the Polisario leaders of having “methodically killed their subsistence activity”. Thursday, for the second consecutive day, hundreds of Sahrawi tradesmen have organized a sit-in, which they describe as […]
Several Sahrawi human rights & development NGOs operating in the Moroccan Sahara have hailed the freedom, which is governed in Morocco by an evolving and credible institutional and legal framework. In a letter sent to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, 925 NGOs said: “as local Sahrawi organizations operating freely on their […]
Algeria’s oil and gas revenues will be reduced by $10 bln to $23 billion as the country struggles with a surge in spending in a heavily subsidized economy. Algerian officials rang the alarm bell as to the deteriorating financial indicators as a result of dwindling energy revenues which represent more than 90% of exports. To […]
International policy expert Marco Iaconetti has called on the Italian government to launch investigations on the fate of the humanitarian aid it sends to the Tindouf camps in Algeria, noting that evidence rather showed that the aid, supposed to be humanitarian, actually was used to buy arms. In press articles he published after the […]
The Taxpayer’s Association of Europe, a federation of 29 national taxpayers’ associations throughout Europe, mustering more than one million members, has called on the European Union to investigate the misappropriation by Algeria and Polisario of the humanitarian aid sent to the Tindouf camps. The call was made by Director of the Brussels office of the […]
The African Development Bank said the Algerian economy is the third worst hit in Africa at a time the country faces a multipronged political, economic and social crisis worsened by lack of political reforms. The bank said the contraction of the Algerian GDP by at least 6.4% this year was due to its heavy dependence […]
After the scandal of the diversion of humanitarian aid by the Polisario and its mentor Algeria was tabled before the European Parliament, the issue of extrajudicial executions in the Tindouf camps was brought to the attention of the parliament members during a plenary session Thursday. The issue was raised by Italian MEP Silvia Sardone in […]
France Thursday announced that residents in Algeria are banned from entering the French territory as part of the prevention against covid-19 pandemic that is fast spreading in the North African country. The European Union last week issued a list of non-European countries whose residents can enter the Schengen area as the 27-country bloc reopened its […]