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Morocco has started this Saturday the repatriation of some 300 Moroccans stranded in Algeria for over two months, following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, local media reported. A first plane of Moroccan carrier RAM took off from Houari Boumediene airport with 100 passengers on board, heading to Oujda. Two other flights, each carrying […]
Head of the separatist polisario front, Brahim Ghali, has been again accused of the embezzlement of humanitarian assistance donated by Spanish NGOs to the Sahraoui population sequestered in the Tindouf camps. FORSATIN (Forum of support for autonomists of Tindouf) indicated that Spanish civil society is currently collecting donations to be shipped to the Tindouf camps, […]
The Algerian authorities decided on Wednesday to recall immediately their ambassador to France for consultation after TV channels France 5 and La Chaine Parlementaire” ( LCP) broadcast documentaries on “Hirak”, the protest movement in the North African country. The move will fuel tension and strain further already rocky relations between the two countries. The documentaries […]
The government of Spain has dealt a new hard blow to the polisario by ignoring its existence on the occasion of the World Africa Day, celebrated on 25 May. It is a slap in the face for the polisario leaders. Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez showed them they are worth nothing on the international scene. […]
Algerian health authorities do not intend to abandon chloroquine in coronavirus treatments, despite WHO’s decision to “temporarily” suspend clinical trials of the drug as a precautionary measure. “We have treated thousands of cases of coronavirus with the drug with great success to date. And we have not noted any adverse reactions,” Dr. Mohamed Bekkat, a […]
The Moroccanness of the Sahara remains unequivocal, immutable and irreversible, despite the hostile maneuvers hatched by Algeria and the polisario, said French Lawyer Hubert Seillan. The Sahara is Moroccan and cannot be anything else than that, he said in an interview with a local news outlet. He affirmed that the Moroccanness of the Sahara has […]
Algeria has been pushing above its weight announcing ambitions to enter the Sahel market without having prepared the necessary infrastructure and competitiveness. Algeria opened a border crossing with Mauritania in 2018 to enable exports of foodstuff through trucks towards Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott. Most Algerian trucks depart from Tindouf, crossing a distance of nearly 3000 km, […]
French consumer-defense group UFC-Que Choisir said Tuesday in a statement that it has lodged a complaint with a court in Paris against 20 airlines, including Royal Air Maroc, Algérie Air, and Tunisair, after the carriers refused to reimburse the passengers whose flights have been cancelled due to covid-19 pandemic. The NGO said it has decided […]
The Egyptian army has been instructed to beef up its presence in the west, near the border with Libya for fear that terrorist elements might attempt infiltrate into the country after forces aligned with UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) took control of key airbase from ally General Khalifa Haftar. Bassem Rady, spokesperson for the […]
The struggling car industry on which Algeria pinned hopes to jump start its industry has received another bad news with the shutdown of a Kia assembly plant on the footsteps of Volkswagen. Long described as “disguised imports” Algeria’s policy of attracting car assembly plants since 2012 has so far showed disappointing results and came up […]