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Al Qaeda leader in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdal, was killed by French forces and their allied military in an operation in northern Mali, near the Algerian border, French Defense Minister announced on Friday. the key Islamist fighter and mentor of several Sahel jihadist groups that French forces had been hunting for more […]
President of the Sahrawi League for Democracy and Human Rights, and former member of the polisario separatist front, Hamada El Baihi, provided a damning account of the appalling living conditions in the Tindouf camps, holding Algeria responsible for the ordeal of the camps populations. Hamada El Baihi, who was participating in a recent debate on […]
Algeria’s main source of revenue, oil and gas company Sonatrach, has seen troubles piling up as it struggles to juggle with historically low oil prices. The company, which accounts for more than 90% of Algeria’s exports, was dealt another blow with the cancelation of a supply contract with Spain’s Naturgy. Sonatrach will be obliged to […]
Spain’s justice system has inflicted a new blow to the Polisario separatist front by prohibiting the display of its pennant in public buildings. The Spanish Supreme Court, the country’s highest judicial body, has vetoed the use, occasional or permanent, of “unofficial” flags or any political expression inside and outside public buildings. The court’s decision constitutes […]
Member of European Parliament Ilhan Kyuchyuk has called on the EU to monitor the humanitarian aid the European bloc sends to the Sahrawis sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf Camps in Southern Algeria. In a written question to the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, Mr. Kyuchyuk (member of Renew Europe group, previously known as Alliance […]
Sensing their end is approaching after suffering successive international diplomatic setbacks in the Sahara issue and running out of excuses for failing to end the scathing living conditions of the sequestered Sahrawis in the Tindouf camps, the Polisario leaders are pulling their last rabbits from their hat hoping to continue their pointless show. In a […]
Morocco’s army has denied claims it is building a military base near its eastern border with Algeria, saying it is only planning the building of a military barracks. “The Royal Armed Forces, as part of a global relocation project of military barracks with the aim of liberating urban land, across the kingdom, is building a […]
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 […]