First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Polisario separatist group, has set up prisons within Algerian territory where prisoners endure all sorts of degrading treatment and human rights violations, a local media reported in an investigative report. The Edhibia prison was taken as a case study by a pro-Polisario media outlet, Futuro Sahara, which criticized the serious human rights abuses in […]
Tosyali Holding, one of the world’s leading steel giants, has announced it will open an economic zone in Senegal, the second African country to offer investment opportunities for the Turkish company after Algeria. Fuat Tosyalı, Chairman of the Turkish steel producer, made the announcement last week on the sideline of the 7th Tokyo International Conference […]
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, […]