First Independent Mena Newspaper
Algerian officials continue to issue statements calling for reviving the paralyzed Maghreb Union, a five-member regional grouping also comprising Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia and Libya. Recently, President Abdelaziz Boutefika sent messages on the 29th anniversary of the Union to Maghreb leaders urging collective efforts to reinvigorate the union. Few days later, Algeria’s Foreign Minister said, during […]
As state coffers continue to be drained, Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahya said the state can no longer sustain the funding of primary schools. “The state of finances in our country does not help us address all requests to improve school conditions in primary schools,” Ouyahya told MPs, adding that local elected members will have […]
Amnesty International has rebuked Algeria over its deplorable human rights record smeared by continuing discrimination against refugees and migrants. In its annual report, the international rights watchdog noted that Algeria failed to improve on human rights at all levels, registering degrading treatment of migrants by Algerian authorities. “Arbitrary arrests, unjustified restrictions, prosecution of members of […]
Polisario’s warmonger leadership appointed recently Mohamed Ouali Akeik, a perpetrator of terrorist attacks, as its new Prime Minister. The new Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed SADR was involved in the terrorist attacks that targeted Spanish workers in the phosphate extraction site, known as Phosboucraa, near Laayoune, le360.ma said. Ouali Akeik was member of a Polisairo […]
Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces (FAR) plan to build ten new surveillance centers on the border with Algeria, to enhance security in the eastern parts of the country. The Moroccan army is set to establish ten new surveillance centers at the border with Algeria, to counter the rise of smuggling activities and the infiltration of terrorist […]
Moroccan authorities arrested three individuals loyal to IS, including a Polisario member, who were plotting attacks in the Kingdom. Morocco’s counterterrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), arrested the three IS members, aged between 24 and 30, in Laayoune, Salé and Marrakech, the Interior ministry said in a statement. The arrested individuals are […]
The International Organization for Migration (IMO) confirmed that it has saved 1000 Sub-Saharan migrants abandoned by Algerian authorities in the desert in harsh conditions. Radio France Internationale reported that IMO continues to save migrants in Algeria’s desert border while Algerian authorities are conducting a manhunt for migrants with the arrest of hundreds of Sub-Saharans who […]
Battered by the oil price slump, Algeria will abolish gasoline subsidies in 2019 as it continues to implement time-buying measures, including import restrictions and money printing. Finance Minister Abderrahmane Raouia confirmed the news to reporters saying that his government plans to undertake a subsidy reform in a bid to reduce the soaring budget deficit as […]
French carmaker PSA Group will source 30% of parts for cars that will be assembled in the Algerian plant from Iran, said a senior official of Iranian Auto Parts Manufacturers Association. An agreement was signed in this respect between PSA Group and car part manufacturer Iran Khodro (IKCO), Mohammad Reza Najafi-Manesh, a member of the […]
The Algerian army has launched a manhunt operation to arrest IS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi who is said to be hiding in Algeria’s southern desert. Late in January, intelligence leaks cited by the media said that Al Baghdadi fled Iraq seeking a hideout in Africa. To reassure local population, Chief of Staff and Deputy […]