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Algeria closes airspace to Mali

Algeria has closed its airspace to Mali as relations worsen between the two neighbors with Mali accusing Algeria of backing terrorist groups. Mali together with its Sahel allies, Niger and Burkina Faso, all recalled their ambassadors after Bamako accused Algiers of protecting separatists by downing a Malian drone. Algeria has doubled down on its provocations […]

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Algeria sparks new diplomatic crisis with Mali, Niger & Burkina Faso

Mali, Niger & Burkina Faso have accused Algeria of sponsoring terrorism and decided to recall their Ambassadors from the North African country after the Algerian military regime downed a Malian drone in the West African country territory. In a press release issued Sunday, Malian authorities denounced a deliberate act of aggression by the Algerian regime, […]

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Algeria maintains ban on pro-Palestine marches

Algeria is the only country on earth whose regime brags about supporting Palestinians while at the same time banning sit-ins and popular marches in support of the Palestinian people. Last Friday, the regime banned protesters from taking to the streets of Algiers to denounce the Israeli war machine and its war crimes in Gaza. Since […]

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Ferhat Mhenni visits French Senate as head of Kabyle government

Ferhat Mhenni, head of the Kabyle independence movement MAK, was invited to the French Senate in his capacity as head of the Kabyle government in exile. Mhenni and a delegation of key kabylie independence movement leaders were received by member of the French national assembly Valerie Boyer, of the Republicans (LR) party. They posed for […]

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Algeria raises white flag of surrender in row with France over Sahara stance

Algeria has finally conceded defeat following a row it has started with France since July last year, when President Macron recognized the Sahara territory as part of Morocco’s sovereignty. Ahead of the deadline set by the French government for Algeria to cooperate on migration or else risk retaliatory measures, the Algerian President had a phone […]

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Boualem Sansal’s journey in Algiers from being called a ‘thief’ to ‘Mister’

In Algeria, the president speaking before MPs called French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal “a thief sent by France”, an “imposter”, and a “bastard,” in prejudicial comments that say much about the use of the judiciary to silence dissidents in the country where terrorism charges have often been used to crackdown on peaceful opposition figures. Few days […]

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X’s AI tool Grok debunks Algerian propaganda

Over the past few days, humans left the job of answering Algerian propaganda to Grok, an AI tool developed by X social media platform to debunk fake news and propaganda. The AI tool has been used at a large scale by Moroccans on the social media platform asking questions that address the propaganda spread by […]

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Algeria takes aim at consular ties with Morocco, in new diversionary maneuver

Algeria has declared Morocco’s consul to Oran persona non grata without offering whatsoever explanation, in yet another diversionary tactic at a context Algiers is engulfed in diplomatic turmoil. The decision came the same day Algeria handed a five-year jail sentence to a writer who recalled that France amputated lands and attached them to current Algeria. […]

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Rights defenders outraged at hefty Algerian sentence against novelist Sansal

Algerian-French novelist Boualem Sanal was sentenced to five years in prison, in a verdict that was denounced by the French president, the political class, intellectuals, and independent human rights defenders. Sansal, 80, was arrested in November upon his landing from France where he had given an interview mentioning that parts of current western Algeria had […]

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Morocco exposes Algeria’s ‘double speak’ on MINURSO and human rights

Morocco had expressed its firm rejection of Algeria’s double speak as it desperately seeks to expand the mandate of the UN mission to the Sahara, MINURSO, to include human rights. Speaking in a public debate at the Security Council, Algeria’s representative to the UN, reiterated his country’s call for the MINURSO to include human rights […]