First Independent Mena Newspaper
The police of the Moroccan northern city of Mdiq-Fnideq arrested, Sunday evening, six individuals, a Spanish citizen of Moroccan origin and five Algerians, suspected of involvement in the organization of illegal immigration, illegal stay in Morocco, refusal to comply and violation of the state of health emergency. According to the first elements of the investigation, […]
Icon of Amazigh music in Algeria, Hamid Cheriet, better known as Idir, has been buried in Paris instead of his beloved Kabyle region after the Algerian regime declined requests for the repatriation of his body. Idir died on May 3 in France at the age of 70 after a long struggle with pulmonary disease leaving […]
The Polisario leaders are extremely irked by the rising and challenging actions made by “the Movement of Sahrawis for Peace” (MSP), set up lately in Madrid by a group of opponents who have just sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres. The move deals a hard blow to the polisario Front, confirming that […]
The Moroccan embassy in Algeria have branded “fabricated” an alleged statement in which the consul of the kingdom in Oran, Algerian second city, called the oil-rich neighbor, an “enemy country”, Le360.ma news outlet reports. A new dust-up has emerged between Algeria and Morocco after a 1:17-minute video in which Morocco’s consul in Oran, addressing on […]
Algeria has extended its coronavirus confinement due to the unavailability of facemasks without which infections could surge, overturning any containment gains. Health minister Abderrahmane Bouzid has asked Algerians to make facemasks at home, a call that acknowledged the government’s incapacity to provide masks to its citizens. Prime Minister Abdelaziz Jerrad, when he announced an extension […]
The polisario diverts and resells the international humanitarian aid destined to the populations held against their will in the Tindouf camps, ignoring the current coronavirus health crisis. The remarks were made by Colonel Preston McLaughlin, an international expert in national security issues, during a TV program aired by Medi1TV channel Sunday. The mechanisms for distributing […]
Algeria is not doing enough tests, which makes it hard to assess the scale of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, head of Pasteur Institute in Algeria and doctors said. The North African country conducts 400 tests daily for a population of some 37 million people. It has so far confirmed 5558 cases with a […]
Press freedom NGOs have drawn a bleak picture of the conditions of critical media in Algeria where many outspoken independent websites have been closed recently by authorities. Observalgerie, a French speaking news portal, described the current context as “the worst in Algeria’s history for the press.” Le Temps d’Algerie and Ennahar newspapers have been forced […]
A court in Lebanon has issued an arrest warrant against Chief of local Algerian oil company Sonatrach after the company has been accused of selling adulterated fuel and of corruption. Judge Nicolas Mansour, prosecutor of Mont-Liban court of appeal ordered the arrest of Tarek Faoual and several employees of Sonatrach Petroleum (SPC), a subsidiary of […]
Algeria’s warmonger leadership launched live fire military exercises near Morocco’s Sahara borders in a move that adds to a series of provocations showing the inherent hostility of the Algerian regime to Morocco. At a time the country’s finances are hit by the fall in oil prices amid the coronavirus outbreak, the Algerian army has geared […]