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The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) has renewed its firm support to the efforts seeking to achieve a mutually acceptable political solution to the issue of Moroccan Sahara. Speaking before UN 4th Committee, permanent representative of El Salvador Rubén Ignacio Zamora Rivas said CELAC bloc strongly backs the efforts made by the […]
Sensing the social implosion is imminent after simmering for a while, the Algerian authorities resorted to scare tactics in a bid to continue clinging to power, hoping desperately to maintain the status quo. The Algerian state TV has broadcast lately special reports showing horrible, painful and shocking images of the bloody civil war in Algeria. […]
As it was expected for many days, the Peruvian authorities expelled on Wednesday Khadijetou El Mokhtar, the so-called “representative” of the Polisario after spending more than 15 days at Lima airport because she was denied entry. The fake envoy, who lost all appeals, was put in a plane back to Madrid where she came from. […]
Algeria’s disillusioned diplomacy is apparently resorting to fake news claiming that the SADR separatist entity will be invited to the Africa-EU summit. As it endures setbacks one after the other in its ideologically anachronistic foreign policy, Algeria indulges in terminology games claiming that the African Union and the EU are negotiation to change the appellation […]
Human Rights Watch urged Algerian authorities to cease criminal prosecutions against bloggers, journalists and media figures for peaceful speech, using articles in the penal code criminalizing “offending the president,” “insulting state officials” or “denigrating Islam.” The International Human Rights Watchdog called on Algeria to accept key recommendations included in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) concerning […]
The new Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Horst Köhler, who took up his functions on September 8 in New York, is planning to travel to the region, and the Secretary-General welcomed the plan. Köhler looks forward to travelling to the region and engaging with the parties in a spirit of trust […]
Algeria has been repeatedly lambasted in reports by international rights watchdogs for its systematic discrimination against minorities, whether religious, linguistic or ethnic. Intolerance towards minorities is espoused at the state level as evidenced by the growing religious intolerance and persecution targeting the Ahmadi community, among other communities. Religious minorities Recently, HRW raised the alarm concerning […]
A ghost President with ghost achievements came to be the most appropriate description of Algeria’s ailing president Bouteflika whose public appearances are a thing of the past. As was expected, after three days of waiting in Algiers, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro joined the list of heads of state whose supposed meetings with Bouteflika never took […]
Each year, the Global Firepower specialist site draws up its global ranking of conventional armies, which does not take into account the stockpiles of nuclear weapons. In its 2017 military strength ranking, seven African countries are in the top 55. These are Egypt, Algeria, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Angola and Morocco. As usual, the list […]
The Peruvian Congress rejected a proposal for the creation of a friendship group with the self-proclaimed separatist entity, the Arab Sahrawi Republic. The refusal by Peruvian lawmakers marks a crushing diplomatic defeat to the polisario’s efforts to re-stablish ties with Peru, which does not recognize the Algerian-backed separatist entity as a state. Indeed, the […]