First Independent Mena Newspaper
One of Morocco’s largest labor unions, CDT, called for a march to the shared borders with Algeria to demand their reopening after decades of closure. The borders between Morocco and Algeria have been sealed since 1994 after an attack involving Algerian nationals on a hotel in Marrakech. The CDT said the march will take place […]
The leadership of the Algerian-backed separatist group, the Polisario, is facing a new challenge to its grip on the Tindouf camps as Sahraouis there stage unprecedented protests in their intensity. The protesters, fed up with the siege they have suffered for decades by the Polisario militias, stormed into the office of the separatist group leader, […]
Head of the Algerian army has called on electoral commission to hold presidential elections before end of the year as the country drags into political instability since the fall of former leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika forced to step down early April. Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaid Salah, according to state television, urged the electoral body to “issue […]
Turkish writer Mohamed Kaddo Afendi Oglu, an expert in Arab-Turkish relations, has confirmed the connections of the Polisario with terror networks threatening the Sahara-Sahel region’s peace and stability. The Turkish writer reached the same conclusion as many pundits and as the Wall Street Journal, which has sounded lately the alarm bell against the dangers […]
The Polisario has once again evidenced its lack of clear-sightedness and its misconception of geopolitics when it joined a group of socialist countries that reject President Donald Trump’s policy towards President Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela. Actually, the separatist front’s representative in Cuba signed at the embassy of Venezuela in Havana an anti-trump petition, part of the […]
Algeria’s interim President Abdelkader Bensalah has replaced head of internal security, Abdelkader Kara Bouhadba, after five people died Thursday in a stampede, at a rap concert, in capital Algiers. The head of the DGSN Bouhadba held the position for few months only as he was appointed in February. His removal is part of few unprecedented […]
Algeria’s culture minister Meriem Merdaci announced her resignation following a deadly stampede at a concert in Algiers in which five people died and dozens were injured. The resignation was accepted by Algeria’s interim president Abdelkader Bensalah after the accident that highlights Algeria’s lack of experience in smoothly managing crowds. An investigation has been […]
Algerian ambassador to Morocco, Mohamed Salah Dembri, who had been positioned in Rabat since 2009, had been recalled this Thursday (Aug.22) and replaced the same day by Abdelaziz Benali Chérif. Benali Chérif served as ambassador to several countries and also as the spokesperson for the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition to Dembri, […]
The head of communication of the US-based Human Rights Watch was expulsed out of Algeria Sunday after his detention early this month. Sidi M’Hamed court in Algiers charged the Moroccan journalist Ahmed Réda Benchemsi for entering the country illegally in view of rolling a foreign agenda. Benchemsi was arrested August 9 on the sidelines of […]
The power grab by the military after the departure of long-ruling Abdelaziz Bouteflika has aborted hopes for a transition to a civilian government, hijacking Algerians’ ambitions to a democratic state and compromising prospects for economic development amid worrisome economic indicators. Army, a kingmaker The army’s pull back from politics during the era of Bouteflika after […]