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The threats to use surface to air missiles against civilian aircrafts by the Polisario puts the Algerian-backed separatist front in the same rank as ISIS and Al Qaeda, said Morocco’s representative to the UN, Ambassador Omar Hilale. “If the Polisario carries out such an action it will move from a band of armed separatists into […]
Morocco scored yet a new victory in the UN process as the Security Council adopted resolution 2440 stressing Algeria’s role as a party to the regional dispute over the Sahara. Algeria, which arms, hosts and backs the Polisairo separatist front diplomatically has refused in the last four decades to pull its head out of the […]
The United Nations Security Council decided on Wednesday to extend the mandate of the MINURSO until April 30 next year, calling upon all involved parties in the Sahara conflict to engage constructively in resumed talks planned for the end of 2018. The Council adopted resolution 2440 (2018), welcoming the decisions by Morocco, Algeria, Polisario and […]
Algeria’s ailing President Abdul Aziz Bouteflika, in power since 1999, will be candidate to his own succession in 2019. The no-news was announced Sunday by the head of Bouteflika’s ruling National Liberation Front Djamel Ould Abbes. Outgoing President Bouteflika will be the party’s candidate at the presidential elections set for April 2019, the FLN Secretary […]
Algeria’s National Assembly on Wednesday elected Mouad Bouchareb, 47, as new speaker by 320 votes with one absentee. Mouad Bouchareb will now replace Saïd Bouhadja who is accused of alleged mismanagement and “inability” to lead. The disputed Speaker adamantly refused to resign despite a series of decisions announced by the FLN party. Bouhadja claims that […]
Algerian Louisa Ighilahriz, a prominent resistance figure, has announced her resignation from the upper house of parliament, citing her opposition to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plan to run for a fifth term in office in 2019. “I refuse this because he is not the actual ruler. Other people are ruling in his name,” she told Algerian […]
In a sign of a frail social peace, Algeria is on the brink of a new language war as Amazigh population in the Kabylie announced the boycott of the Arabic language at school and in the administration in response to the rejection of their language in other provinces. Many students in Algerian regions rejected learning […]
Algerian authorities have put a ban on the wearing of niqab, a full-face veil, at workplace across the country, over difficulties to identity faces behind the veil. Under the decision, made by Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and announced Thursday, governors, ministers and other public authorities shall ensure that the ban is implemented in public work […]
The UN Fourth Committee adopted without a vote a resolution reiterating support for the UN-led political process to settle the Sahara issue after Morocco protested at keeping the artificial dispute on the agenda of the Committee. Moroccan permanent representative said it is an anomaly to list the Sahara issue on the decolonization agenda of the […]
The crisis is deepening in Algeria wherein political leaders and military generals are fighting for power as the country’s aging and long-serving president is preparing to run for an unprecedented and controversial fifth term in office in 2019. Ahead of the upcoming rocky transition of power amid growing social woes and resentment, some Algerian deputies […]