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The return of Morocco to the African Union and its recent membership in the pan-African organization’s most important body, the Peace and Security Council, is vindicating the fears of the Polisario separatists and their mentor, Algeria. As the noose tightens around the Polisario in the Tindouf camps, where combustible factors of unrest, corruption and oppression […]
Algeria was ranked among the ten worst performing countries in the 2018 Economic Freedom Index, established by The Heritage Foundation, an American public policy think tank based in Washington, DC. Algeria scored 44.7/100 taking the 172 place in a ranking of 186 countries. Algeria came ahead of only 8 countries, some of them happened to […]
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) confirmed that the Algerian army has killed one of its senior officials, Adel Seghiri also known as Abu Ruwaha al-Qasantini. The Al Qaeda official was among those running the group’s Al-Andalus media wing, responsible for publishing propaganda videos and statements. Last Week the Algerian army announced the killing of […]
The beginning of 2018 bodes ill for Algeria, which saw reserves dwindling prompting a series of austerity measures that have fueled social unrest. From doctors to teachers, the Algerian civil society’s growing discontent with the failing government’s policies are gradually building up. Last month, different protest movements paralyzed key social services. Algerian doctors have started […]
Algeria will receive more doctors from Cuba in return for suppling the communist run island with crude oil, which seeks to offset a steep decline in oil shipments from its key ally Venezuela. An agreement was signed between the two countries providing for three years of Algerian oil supplies, the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina […]
French Credit Insurance Company Coface has downgraded Algeria ratings to C, the lowest grade, over serious concerns of social frustrations boiling in the oil-producing country wherein high risks of social turmoil are exacerbated by the volatility of oil prices. The Algerian growth “slowed in 2017 due to the state’s dwindling financial resources and public spending […]
Algeria was outperformed by all of the 80 countries surveyed in the 2018 Best Country Ranking, a ranking and analysis project by U.S. News & World Report, Y&R’s BAV Group and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Algeria came at the bottom of the ranking in view of its low score in a […]
The UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Horst Kohler, invited the “parties to the conflict” to “separate talks” in Berlin, Moroccan media reported. The invitation was addressed after Kohler’s ten-day tour in Europe and Africa to relaunch talks, said le360.ma. According to the news portal, Morocco, the Algerian-backed Polisario and Mauritania are the […]
Despite the verbal attacks by Algerian senior officials on Rabat lately, Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has attended the Western Mediterranean Forum, 5+5, where he delivered an address on neighborliness as a lever for stability. The Moroccan Foreign Minister’s attendance was subject of much speculations in the Algerian press with commentators going as far as […]
Algerian authorities are alarmed by the rising bill of refined products, which hit $2.5 billion in 2017 up from 800 million in 2016 due to a surge in domestic demand and lack of national refining industry. As Algeria feels the heat of an economic and financial crisis propelled by the oil price plunge, the country […]