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Sahara: Separatists’ brawl over Algerian petrodollars leads to closure of their propaganda office in Laayoune

The pro-polisario operatives planted in Morocco’s southern provinces have shown their true face when they ripped into each other over their share of the money they receive from Algeria to fund their hostile activities and campaigns against Morocco. They turned on each other for cash and their ugly squabble ended up in a mess and […]

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Algeria loses about $100m over poor quality of Sonatrach’s petroleum products

Algeria’s energy giant Sonatrach has suffered a new setback after Turkey rebuffed two shiploads of liquefied natural gas (LNA) worth around $100 million after the discovery of oil in the load, Algerie Part Plus reports. Sonatrach, after it lost its biggest customers, namely the Spanish electricity companies, and Electricité du Liban that accused it of […]

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Algeria: Demonstrators in Paris demand release of Khaled Drareni

Demonstrators gathered Monday in front of the Algerian Embassy in Paris to demand the release of journalist Khaled Drareni on the eve of his appeal trial. The director of the news website Casbah Tribune and correspondent for TV5 Monde and RSF has been detained in Algeria since the end of March. He had been arrested […]

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Algerian News Agency caught in the act of fabricating stories

The lies of the Algerian news agency APS know no bounds. This mouthpiece of the military regime was forced to see in the mirror its own falsehood when the UN Human Rights issued a denial decrying the lack of professionalism by the agency and asked it to withdraw a story. It came as the last […]

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Algeria scraps mega solar energy Desertec project

Algeria has decided to abandon German Desertec project, one of the world largest solar energy initiative to generate energy from the Sahara desert. “The Desertec project is outdated. Let’s forget it,” Energy Minister Abdelmadjid Attar told state-run radio chaine 1. The Energy Minister argued that the €400 billion project proposed to the gas-rich country is […]

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UN Chief castigates Algeria for its role in perpetuating Sahara conflict

In a report covering a decade of the UN action in the Sahara, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres deplored the destructive role played by Algeria in blocking a political solution to the over four-decade conflict. The report points out to the multiple efforts led by successive UN envoys citing the roundtables held in December 2018 […]

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UNSG reaffirms Algeria’s role in Sahara issue, preeminence of Morocco’s autonomy initiative

The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has recently submitted a report on the Sahara issue to the UN General Assembly, covering the period from 2011 to 2020, reaffirming Algeria’s role as the main party to the regional dispute, as established by the Security Council, in several of its resolutions, and the preeminence of the Autonomy […]

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Successful completion of perforation of Al Massira Dam, a première in Africa

Morocco has successfully completed the perforation of the Al Massira dam, with the aim of improving the drinking water supply for the residents of Marrakech. The African Development Bank (AfDB), which contrinuted to the undertaking, and Morocco’s National Office for Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) described the feat as a breakthrough and the first of […]

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Algeria to hunt down some France-based nationals for ill-gotten wealth

Algeria has launched its campaign to recover wealth stolen by France-based members of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s circle. The justice of the North African country has reportedly turned to its French counterpart to help hunt down dozens of Algerian nationals known close to Bouteflika. The suspects, who have not been named, are sued for several […]

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Algeria: The press freedom climate has changed for the worse

Two weeks after the imprisonment of a high-profile Algerian journalist, a former reporter has been sentenced to prison for his online commentary, cementing fears that Algeria’s new president is on track to match his predecessor’s record of enacting restrictive policies toward the press even as he has promised democratic reforms, comments the New York-based Committee […]