First Independent Mena Newspaper
Nearly 1 million Algerians staged the biggest demonstration yet for the sixth successive Friday, demanding the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the ruling elite including military chief Ahmed Gaid Salah. Protesters chanted anti-regime slogans few days after Gaid Salah announced the president is unfit to rule under Article 102 of the constitution. Under the […]
The chairman of Algerian business leaders’ forum has resigned from his position few days after he was banned from leaving the country and put on a blacklist of people denied trips abroad by the army. Ali Haddad in a letter said he was quitting in order to preserve the cohesion and durability of the organization. […]
Around 100 Algerian top business tycoons, including the leader of Algeria’s business forum, have been put on a blacklist and denied exit from the country amid the gradual decaying of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s regime. The army Chief of Staff, Ahmed Gaid Salah reportedly instructed security forces at airports and other exit points of the country […]
The Algerian army, the kingmaker in the Algerian political order, has finally stated the obvious by declaring “Bouteflika unfit to lead,” four weeks after millions of Algerians started pouring to the street putting pressure for the infirm President to step down. The call of Algeria’s army chief, Lt Gen Ahmed Gaed Salah, for the removal […]
Morocco hosts this Monday in Marrakech an African Ministerial Conference on African Union’s support to the United Nations political process on Sahara. The event, which brings together 37 African countries from the five sub-regions of the continent, comes to back the decision, adopted at the 31st AU Summit, held July 1-2, 2018 in Nouakchott (Mauritania), […]
Russia has surprisingly shied away from supporting the authoritarian status quo in Algeria as it seeks to secure its long term interest in the North African country, notably in terms of armament contracts. It was not a coincidence that Deputy Prime Minister Ramtane Lamamra paid his first international visit to white wash the regime to […]
The UN Secretary-General has announced in a recent report that the budget of the UN mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, will be increased by 7.6 percent to improve ground and air surveillance operations conducted by the mission. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres who also called on MINURSO observers to be more vigilant, has closed the […]
Finding a lasting and mutually acceptable solution to the Sahara would benefit the whole region of the Maghreb, the UN Personal Envoy for the Sahara Horst Köhler said in a statement at the end of the second round of negotiations held at Le Château Le Rosey in Bursins, near Geneva, March 21-22 with the participation […]
The parties to the Sahara conflict Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the separatist Polisario front will convene a third meeting to discuss a realistic, political, lasting and mutually acceptable solution to the over-four decade conflict, the UN Personal Envoy to the Sahara said. “Delegations engaged courteously and openly in an atmosphere of respect,” said the UN […]
The UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Horst Köhler, expressed hope that the second roundtable discussions, that started this Thursday afternoon, would “reinforce the positive momentum” achieved at the previous meeting, held last December in Geneva, said the Geneva UN Office in a press release made public Thursday afternoon. The second roundtable meeting on […]