First Independent Mena Newspaper
Despite announcing austerity measures to fend off an impending crisis, Algeria maintained its lavish spending on defense to which it earmarked 25% of its 2018 budget, that is equivalent to $10.4 billion. Whatever happens never reduce spending on arms. This seems the guiding principle of the military dominated Algerian state, which seems to turn a […]
Morocco is set to bolster its reconnaissance capabilities through the launch of a state-of-the-art satellite. The move has stirred fears in Algeria. After Spanish media raised concerns of Spain’s military officials over Morocco’s spy satellite, comes the turn of Algeria, which looks at Morocco’s steps to gain satellite technology with a suspicious eye. “Total panic”, […]
The Algeria-backed Polisario separatist group suffered another major diplomatic blow in Latin America when its so-called “representative” in Panama was expelled and barred from attending power transfer ceremony between outgoing executive board and the newly elected managing officials of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen). The party crasher was Ali Mhamed Mbarek who tried to sneak […]
Amnesty International has denounced the racial and discriminatory crackdown launched by Algerian authorities against sub-Saharan migrants, rounding up and forcibly expelling more than 2,000 of them to Niger and Mali over the past three weeks. Those expelled include more than 300 minors, among them at least 25 unaccompanied children, said Amnesty in a press release […]
The arrogance and antagonism of the henchmen of the military regime in Algeria make them myopic to the fast evolving world around them. The recent statements by Algeria’s foreign minister, Abdelkader Messahel, who claimed that Moroccan banks and flag carrier (Royal Air Maroc) are making success in Africa because they are using drug money, come […]
The disgraceful statements uttered by Algeria’s Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel were received with outrage by Africa’s diplomatic corps in Rabat. Ambassador Nimaga Ismaila, Dean of the African diplomatic corps in Morocco, condemned, on behalf of African ambassadors in Rabat, such defamatory statements that lack flair and manners. Messahel claimed at a meeting with Algerian […]
Following the verbal blunders uttered by Algerian Foreign Minister, Abdelkader Messahel, who blatantly accused Moroccan banks of laundering cannabis money in Africa, the Professional Grouping of Moroccan Banks (GPBM) released a statement rejecting such accusations as “hateful and irresponsible”. The diatribe against Morocco that the Algerian Foreign Minister shamefully made during a meeting at the […]
Morocco’s Flag Carrier, Royal Air Maroc, has vehemently rejected the disrespectful statements pronounced by Algeria’s Foreign Minister, Abdelkader Messahel, who accused the company of carrying something other than passengers in an allusion to drugs. RAM said in a statement that the Algerian foreign minister’s blunder “reveals a complete ignorance of the air sector which is […]
Morocco’s African policy, its triumphal return to the African Union and its largescale investments in Africa are sending shockwaves across Algeria. Outperformed by Morocco in Africa at the economic and political levels, Algerian officials have lost track of diplomatic norms blaming the failure of their country’s policy in Africa on Rabat’s use of cannabis money […]
As it heads straight to insolvency, Algeria insists on shunning foreign debt as it resorts to unconventional measures involving the Central Bank money printing to delay an impending bankruptcy in the absence of genuine reforms. After Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia announced a five-year plan to reduce his country’s ballooning budget deficit by borrowing directly […]