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Algeria’s president Tebboune said that his country was not bothered by the French position in support for Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, in a statement that further highlights the contradictions within the Algerian regime. Algeria has withdrawn its ambassador to France following Paris support for Morocco and issued numerous statements condemning visits by French officials […]
French-Algerian writer who was arrested for his views faces a 10-year in jail sentence and a fine of 6887 euros on the charge of terrorism and subversive acts, in a trial denounced by rights activists as political and retaliatory. Sansal was arrested in November right after landing from France where he gave an interview mentioning […]
Rachid Nekkaz, an Algerian political activist and former presidential hopeful, travelled visa-free to Morocco to stoke tension in the hope of being expelled manu-military or even arrested, in an incident that could be used by Algeria to draw false syllogism. But none of that happened. Nekkaz came all the way to Morocco to spit some […]
An Algerian pilot died in a crash of a Su-30 fighter, in yet a new incident in a series of recurrent crashes in recent years that highlight the dilemma of the aging Algerian air force fleet. The crash took place while the aircraft, which was older than the pilot, was on a training mission in […]
France has re-imposed visa requirements for holders of Algerian diplomatic passports, in reaction to Algeria’s refusal to take its nationals expelled by France for violating local laws. Some 10,000 members of the Algerian nomenklatura and their families have diplomatic passports, offering them visa-free access to France under a bilateral deal signed in 2007. French interior […]
Several Sahrawi civil society activists have denounced human rights violations and the systematic repression of dissenting voices by the polisario in the Tindouf camps, southwest Algeria. Taking the floor during the 58th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, under agenda item 3 of the general debate, the Sahrawi activists called on the […]
Water has been added to Algeria’s media circus, in yet a new episode of uncorroborated accusations against Morocco, as Algerian officials and media accuse their western neighbor of engaging in a “water war”. At the heart of the new Algerian victim hood propaganda is the small kadoussa dam built on the seasonal river Oued Guir […]
Algerian authorities suspended consular cooperation with France in its consulates of Nice, Marseille, and Montpellier, amid a worsening diplomatic crisis that led the French interior minister to call for banning entry to the Algerian nomenklatura. The Algerian escalatory move came in a series of provocations including the refusal to admit Algerian nationals who have been […]
The French authorities have announced lately the arrest of two French-Algerian nationals accused of spying for the Algerian regime, deepening further the diplomatic crisis between Paris and Algiers, reported the Paris-based news outlet Sahel Intelligence. According to the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, a civil servant, aged 56, working for an administration of French finance ministry […]
Four months after the detention of French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, his lawyer said he will file a complaint with the UN to seek his release from an Algerian jail. Sansal was arrested on November 16 upon his return from France where he gave an interview explaining the colonial nature of Algeria’s borders, notably citing the […]