Category: Algeria

HRW Urges Algeria to Improve the ٍٍState of Public Freedoms

September 23, 2017

Human Rights Watch urged Algerian authorities to cease criminal prosecutions against bloggers, journalists and media figures for peaceful speech, using articles in the penal code ... Read More

New Envoy for Sahara Planning Trip to the Region

September 18, 2017

Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan arrives at Bellevue Palace to be received President and Mrs Kohler The new Personal Envoy of the ... Read More

The Plight of Minorities in Algeria

September 18, 2017

Algeria has been repeatedly lambasted in reports by international rights watchdogs for its systematic discrimination against minorities, whether religious, linguistic or ethnic. Intolerance towards minorities ... Read More

Why President Bouteflika’s Meeting with Venezuelan Counterpart Never Took Place?

September 15, 2017

A ghost President with ghost achievements came to be the most appropriate description of Algeria's ailing president Bouteflika whose public appearances are a thing of ... Read More

2017 Military Strength Ranking: Seven African Countries in the Top 55

September 15, 2017

Each year, the Global Firepower specialist site draws up its global ranking of conventional armies, which does not take into account the stockpiles of nuclear ... Read More

Peruvian Lawmakers Reject Proposal to Set up Friendship Group with Polisario

September 14, 2017

The Peruvian Congress rejected a proposal for the creation of a friendship group with the self-proclaimed separatist entity, the Arab Sahrawi Republic. The refusal by ... Read More

Algeria Should Look in Mirror before Criticizing Morocco on Human Rights

September 13, 2017

Algeria has been asked to look in the mirror before raising the human rights situation in Morocco and its southern provinces, the Sahara. In a ... Read More

HRW Urges Algeria to Stop Persecuting Religious Minorities

September 13, 2017

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Algerian government to halt its persecution and hate speech against religious minorities in the country after authorities proceeded ... Read More

Polisario Official Unwanted in Peru

September 12, 2017

Peruvian authorities declared Polisaio official Khadijatou El Mokhtar persona non grata and proceeded to her deportation manu military to Madrid. El Mokhtar was claiming to ... Read More

Venezuela’s President Visits Algeria to Discuss Means to Curb Oil Glut

September 12, 2017

On his way back from Astana where he attended a summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in his capacity as president of the ... Read More