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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 […]
As the boat of the Algerian regime sinks against the backdrop of unrelenting protests demanding a step down of infirm Bouteflika and a departure of the opaque regime, the ruling elites seek diversion by sending their foreign facade figure Ramtane Lamamra to the UN talks on the Sahara in Geneva, a move that shows that […]
The limbo in Algerian politics is throwing its weight on the oil and gas industry in the country, which represents 95% of the North African country’s revenues. After reports of strikes in some oil and gas field, ExxonMobile halted talks with Algeria’s hydrocarbon giant Sonatrach as protests continue to simmer across the country, Reuters reported. […]
The Moroccan delegation heads to Geneva this Wednesday to participate in a second roundtable on the Sahara, organized by the UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy Horst Köhler, March 21-22. Besides the Moroccan delegation, led by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, delegations from Algeria, the Polisario, and Mauritania, will take part in the meeting. This second roundtable […]
As Algerian demonstrations continue across the country demanding the departure of President Bouteflika at the end of his current mandate, EuroMed Rights has called on the Algerian authorities to respect the freedom of expression and the right to peaceful demonstration, as guaranteed by the Algerian Constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights […]
As consultations are still ongoing to form a new government in Algeria in a bid to address the wrath of the people standing against the extension of President Bouteflika’s term that the protesters call a “fourth term bis”, the Bouteflika clan must face another front of “resistance” from within. Actually, 72 high dignitaries of the […]
A young officer from the Polisario front decided on Monday, March 18, to rally the motherland. A Polisario rebel executive, claiming to be a captain, acting as deputy commandant of a “Katiba” (battalion) of the so-called Gendarmerie of the separatist front, showed up this Monday morning at the defense line in the area of Farcia […]
Morocco is not interfering in Algeria’s domestic issues and abstains from commenting on the recent developments in the eastern neighbor, said Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in a statement. Algeria has been rocked by large-scale protests demanding an end to Bouteflika’s two-decade rule and a democratic reform of an aging regime. Some media outlets hovering around […]