First Independent Mena Newspaper
The prices of bananas are set to surge in Algeria after the latter boycotted imports of the fruit from its main supplier Ecuador, which has withdrawn recognition of the Polisario entity and backed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara. Ecuador has made the position last month, following the example of Panama, showing strong support for […]
U.S. Republican Congressman Joe Wilson has described the Algeria-backed polisario armed militia as a terrorist organization which is actively engaged with its foreign allies in destabilizing acts in West Africa. In a speech made Wednesday at the House of Representatives, Wilson, Chair of U.S.-Morocco Caucus, said the North African Kingdom is a longstanding “essential U.S. […]
At least 31,404 migrants were expelled by Algerian authorities to Niger’s border in 2024, in blatant violation of international conventions on migrants’ rights. These figures were disclosed by NGO Alarme Phone Sahara which said that over 26,000 migrants from this landlocked West African country were abandoned by Algeria in desert borders with Niger in lamentable […]
France is considering imposing visa requirements on holders of Algerian diplomatic passport, amid a brewing crisis that prompted French officials to vow to retaliate against what they considered as a series of Algerian disrespect, which included arbitrary arrests of a dual-national novelist, instigation of diaspora, and refusal to admit nationals expelled from France for spreading […]
Head of the Kabylia independence movement (MAK) Ferhat Mhenni wrote to the representative of Algeria at the UN in New York, whose country is assuming the rotating presidency of the security council, asking for the Kabyle people’s right to self-determination and independence to be listed on the agenda. In a letter to Algeria’s Ammar Benjamaa, […]
Relations between France and Algeria have deteriorated to their worst level in decades in a showdown in which French President Emmanuel Macron assumes some responsibility in having sought to reconcile with an Algerian military-led regime that subsists on hostility to anything French. In offering too many concessions to the military regime in Algiers and turning […]
Indignation and outrage are building up in Turkey against the Algerian military regime and its Polisario puppet for hosting some members of the PKK/YPG terrorist organization in a meeting held lately in Tindouf camp, Southern Algeria. Though Ankara has not so far officially reacted, several Turkish nationals, associations, and politicians have denounced the Algerian unfriendly […]
Hundreds of Malians demonstrated this Friday in front of the Algerian Embassy in Bamako to protest against the political and military interference of the Algerian regime in their country’s domestic affairs. The peaceful demonstrators, all civilians, denounced Algeria’s actions which they said undermine Mali’s sovereignty and stability. They were waving banners with slogans saying: “No […]
The UK has warned against all travel to all Algeria’s borders except with Morocco, in a travel advice that exposes the fragile security conditions in the country and debunks the military regime’s propaganda which has often taken aim to describe Morocco as the source of all threats. On its travel advice official website, the UK […]
A legal action has been launched in Paris against Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune for “enforced disappearance” of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal. The legal proceeding was initiated by a local French association which holds the Algerian presidency accountable for the enforced disappearance, deprivation of liberty, and arbitrary detention of the 75-year-old novelist. Sansal was arrested at […]