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Algeria and its puppet, the Polisario Front, continue to divert the humanitarian aid sent by the EU for the populations in the Tindouf camps, southwestern Algeria, revealed an investigative article published by London-based news outlet EUToday. “Unfortunately, and despite promises from the European Commission to put an end to the diversion of humanitarian aid sent […]
The European Union has included Morocco as well as Algeria and Tunisia to the list of countries whose residents qualify to enter the Schengen area as the bloc gears up to open its borders to the rest of the world amid the covid-19 pandemic. The bloc is set to open its external borders from July […]
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is likely to appoint a new envoy for the Sahara in August or September, a diplomatic source told le360.ma. The source explained that prior to presenting the Sahara report to the Security Council, Guterres will have to appoint a new personal envoy. The identity of the new UN official […]
The United States has listed Algeria among the countries wherein the illegal trade in people is widely spread, affirming that it will work tirelessly to free those still enslaved and will punish their tormentors. In its 2020 Trafficking in Persons Report, Washington placed Algeria on its “Tier-3 watch list”, the lowest ranking, which could trigger […]
France’s energy giant Total has renewed for three years the purchase of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Algeria’s energy company Sonatrach, Trade Arabia reports. Sonatrach will supply two million tons per year of Algerian LNG to the French market, primarily through the LNG terminal at Fos Cavaou. The deal, concluded in an extremely volatile market […]
Two leading British politicians have reconfirmed the direct involvement of the Algerian regime in the continuing regional conflict over the Moroccan Sahara through its strong and steadfast backing to the polisario separatist movement. Algeria created the polisario and continues to support it politically, financially and militarily, said members of the UK ruling conservative party, Mark […]
Oil and gas rich southern Algeria has in recent years been boiling with a spate of protests that often turn violent such as the recent protests in the Touareg city of Tin-Zaouatin where a man has been killed by live fire. Protests in Tin Zaouatin, near the borders with Mali, erupted after Algerian authorities imposed […]
As soon as the medical containment was lifted, several hundred people took to the street for the weekly Friday demonstrations in several wilayas, notably in Kabylia (northwest), despite arrests, convictions of activists and risks related to the coronavirus. The Algerian regime has actually multiplied in recent days the arrests and convictions of militants of Hirak […]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Algerian authorities to end the harassment and prosecution of journalists in a bid to gag the media and throttle freedom of the press. In a statement issued Friday, RSF says the crackdown on independent journalists and bloggers has intensified despite the coronavirus epidemic, noting that four journalists […]
The Chinese government has excluded the polisario from the extraordinary China-Africa summit 2020, dealing a hard blow to the polisario and Algerian rulers who are disoriented and disheartened to see that all schemes hatched against Morocco’s territorial integrity are falling apart. Fearing to irk Beijing, Algerian President, Abdelmajid Tebboune did not utter a word on […]