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Algiers has been helping leaders of separatist movement accused of human right abuses to avoid facing justice as it issues its allies fake Algerian passports, reports say. Algerian authorities have enabled members of separatist movement to escape arrests and justice in countries where they have been convicted for the human right abuses in Tindouf camp, […]
The drop in oil prices has taken a heavy toll on Algeria’s budget revenues with the trade deficit expanding to 15.8 billion dollars as of October compared to 13.7 billion dollars the same period last year. By the end of October, Algeria’s export revenues slipped by 23.44% standing at 22.7 billion dollars propelling the government […]
Former head of the Algerian government, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, expressed optimism regarding an eminent opening of the closed Moroccan-Algerian borders. In a recent interview with CNN Arabic, Belkhadem, former Secreatry General of the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN), said that the opening of the land borders between the two north Africa’s most populous countries is “inevitable.” […]
The Islamic State group has claimed the killing of an Algerian police officer in the eastern district of Constantine on Friday. The officer was killed in a restaurant in Constantine by three gunmen who shot him and ran away with his service weapon. The army acknowledged the officer was killed by a terrorist group but […]
Newly elected secretary of the ruling National Liberation Front (FNL), Ould abbaes, has dropped a bombshell when he said that the party’s long-standing president Abdel Aziz Bouteflika would be the party’s candidate for the 2019 presidential election if he wishes. “It is obvious that the President of the party will be our candidate in 2019 […]
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a public policy think tank, published on its website an article that exposes the frail stability in Algeria and Mauritania, putting the two North African states in a list of “ten countries whose stability cannot be taken for granted.” The article, signed by Michael Rubin, points out to the semi-military […]
Algeria’s ruling party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), was taken by surprise Saturday as the party’s Secretary Amar Sadaani announced his resignation reportedly at the demand of the party’s long-standing president Abdel Aziz Bouteflika. His resignation, according to analysts, is a clear sign of friction between a group around President Bouteflika and a group of […]
The Algerian economy has been heavily battered by the slump in oil prices evoking the catastrophic events of the late 1980s which plunged the country into a spiral of a decade of violence, said a new study entitled, The Impact of Low Oil Prices on Algeria, published by the Center on Global Energy Policy. The […]
Algeria’s responsibility in prolonging the Sahara conflict was decried by Morocco’s Representative at the UN in New York Omar Hilale, who deplored that Algiers continue to block efforts aiming at reaching a lasting political solution to the Sahara dispute. Hilale, speaking before the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, presented arguments showing the invalidity of the […]
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has proposed to appoint former Islamist figure and aid, Abdelwahab Derbal, as the chairman of the High Independent Election Monitoring Body. In line with the new constitution adopted in February, the Algerian President appoints the chairman of the body, which will replace the much criticized “National Commission of election Supervision” and “National […]