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The Spanish Congress of Deputies (lower house of Parliament) has voiced its support for a “just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution” to the Sahara regional conflict. In a motion unanimously adopted on Tuesday, the Spanish MPs call on the government to continue to back the UN-led dialogue process engaged with the parties to the conflict […]
A recently conducted survey covering different social categories found that 89% of Moroccans back open borders in Algeria and believe that closer economic cooperation is the way forward to resolve political disputes, the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis said. More than 1200 people took part in the survey, which revealed a strong popular support for […]
Sahrawis, sequestered in the polisario-controlled Tindouf camps in southern Algeria, have resumed their mass protests against the separatist leaders who facilitated the escape of two killers of a member of the Ouled Tidrarine tribe, Ould Boukhari Bamba. The angry and frustrated protesters gathered in front of the polisario headquarters in Rabouni, to denounce the escape […]
Algeria Wednesday confirmed the first case of coronavirus, becoming the second country in North Africa after Egypt to be affected by the outbreak which has killed over 2,700 people globally. Health minister Abderrahmane Benbouzid told state-run TV that an Italian citizen who arrived in the country on Feb. 17 has tested positive for the disease […]
Algerian foreign ministry unilaterally postponed a planned visit by Spanish foreign minister Arancha Gonzalez in what appears as a reaction to Spain’s support for the Moroccan position on the Sahara issue. Spain has recently taken stands that Morocco welcomed and has abstained from expressing support to the referendum option for the area, which the UN […]
The Algerian government will grant scholarships to 400 PhD students to be enrolled at the Irish University of Limerick (UL). The program to cost up to €20 million over four years comes as the North African country embarks on a switch from French to English as the official language of teaching and learning in […]
Switzerland denied having in its territories a representation of the Polisario, reducing the Algerian-backed group to its status of a separatist militia serving its paymasters’ regional agenda. The Polisario does not have a representation in the UN Geneva neither, said Swiss foreign ministry in a note sent to Morocco’s embassy in Berne. The […]
The Algerian rulers have always denied their direct involvement in the Sahara, but their scathing diplomatic move made against Côte d’Ivoire after it opened a Consulate in the Moroccan Saharan city of Laayoune shows clearly that they are the main stakeholder in the Sahara conflict. The Algerian authorities, the real puppeteers of the Polisario separatist […]
The Algerian President Wednesday ordered the deportation of telecommunication company Ooredoo Algeria CEO after he reportedly planned to sack hundreds of workers. Nickolai Beckers, a German national, was taken from his office to the airport by some officers of the national security directorate, DGSN, local media Annahar reported. President Abdelmadjid Tebboun, according to the media, […]
Algeria’s newly elected government suffers from scant legitimacy as pro-democracy Hirak continues its pressure, which has been ongoing for a year in favor of a genuine change. Meanwhile, the Algerian regime is seeking desperately to make its voice heard in its immediate neighborhood to no avail as it comes to terms to the reality that […]