First Independent Mena Newspaper
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 […]
Algeria has been asked to look in the mirror before raising the human rights situation in Morocco and its southern provinces, the Sahara. In a scathing criticism of the Algerian disillusioned diplomacy, Moroccan representative at the Human Rights Council (HRC) told Algeria to address the grave human rights violations within its territories before venturing to […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Algerian government to halt its persecution and hate speech against religious minorities in the country after authorities proceeded to a crackdown on the followers of the Ahmadi sect. HRW raised the alarm concerning the discrimination endured by religious minorities in Algeria following the arrest of the President of […]
Peruvian authorities declared Polisaio official Khadijatou El Mokhtar persona non grata and proceeded to her deportation manu military to Madrid. El Mokhtar was claiming to be on a special mission to Lima but Peruvian authorities, which do not recognize the separatist Polisairo entity as a state, kept her within the airport and refused to let […]
On his way back from Astana where he attended a summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in his capacity as president of the Non-Aligned Movement, President Maduro of Venezuela stopped in Algeria where he had talks on means to halt the oil price glut. Maduro could obviously not meet Algeria’s ailing President Bouteflika, […]
The Governor of the Italian Island of Sardinia has raised the alarm requesting help from Rome to curb the rising influx of illegal embarcations from Algeria, which has become a new Mediterranean illegal migration route to Europe. About 800 people have made the crossing from Algeria this year, landing on beaches in Sardinia in small […]
The UK government has been accused of putting arms sales to despots ahead of human rights as British arms manufacturers have exported almost £5bn worth of weapons to countries that are judged to have repressive regimes, including Algeria, in the 22 months since the Conservative party won the latest election, the Guardian reported. Algeria was […]
In a move that shows that hostility to Morocco remains a guiding line in Algeria’s foreign policy, Algerian authorities have refused to accept the nomination of the new Spanish Ambassador in Algiers José Maria Ridao because he is deemed “too close to Morocco.” Ridao, Spain’s former ambassador to the Unesco, is an intellectual close to […]
France and the three Maghreb countries, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, are bound by longstanding historic, cultural and economic ties that makes the three North African states a priority area in the French foreign policy. A report recently published by the Paris-based think thank, Institut Montaigne, stresses that the Maghreb is a priority area for France […]
The Algerian Foreign Minister informed lawmakers Tuesday that the North African country’s embassy in Tripoli will reopen soon. “Algeria will be in Tripoli soon,” Abdelkader Messahel told the Algerian parliament. However, Messahel made a similar announcement last year following a visit in Tripoli, but the embassy is still closed. Algeria closed its embassy in 2014, […]