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Panama’s recent decision in favour of Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara has dealt another hard blow to the Algerian military regime as the Central American country will take its seat as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council starting January 1, 2025. This is a major diplomatic setback for Algiers as Rabat has gained […]
Since his arrest on November 16 in Algiers, French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been behind bars without a trial. His arrest came after an interview with a French media in which he said historical facts about the artificial borders of the post-colonial Algerian state. In a country where demonizing Morocco is the currency of the […]
A pro-Polisario separatist has been arrested in Spain for inciting and preparing terrorist acts against Moroccan sites and interests. This confirms the link between Algeria-backed Polisario militia and terrorism. According to Spanish press reports, the woman was nabbed in Menorca, Balearic Islands, where she was living. She is facing charges of glorifying and inciting jihad […]
A group of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) denounced the arbitrary arrest of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal on Nov.16 in Algiers and demanded his immediate release. In a plenary session, the MEPs called for the immediate release of Sansal, whose arrest was confirmed in a diatribe by Algerian official media who indulged in prejudice […]
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell has called on Algerian authorities to release immediately Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and denounced the repression of freedom of speech in Algeria. In a speech delivered Thursday on his behalf at the EU Parliament by Commissioner Helena Dalli, the Vice-President of the European Commission […]
The recent failed terrorist attack by the Polisario on a civilian political rally earlier this month in Mahbes, west of the security wall, was at the heart of discussions between Moroccan inspector general and commander of the southern Zone Mohammed Berrid and the military chief of the UN mission in the Sahara, the Minurso. The […]
The Algerian regime has confirmed through its news agency the arbitrary arrest of Boualem Sansal, a renowned novelist with a critic of the military regime in Algiers. In a diatribe on the national news agency APS, the military regime showed its contempt for free writers such as Sansal whom it called “pseudo writer,” while describing […]
The Republic of Ecuador has officially begun the process of revoking its recognition of the so called “Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic” (SADR), self-proclaimed by the separatist Polisario group that it had previously recognized in 1983 and allowed to establish a so-called “embassy” in the country in 2009. The decision to end diplomatic relations with the […]
The whereabouts of the renowned Algerian novelist and intellectual Boualem Sansal have been unknown since he landed in Algeria on November 16. His wife and friends fear he has been persecuted because of his ideas, as part of a larger crackdown on dissidents. Sansal, who was traveling from France, is an outspoken critic of the […]
Morocco stands as the only partner in North Africa with whom the new Trump administration can join forces to counter an increasing Iranian threat to destabilize the region through the supply of drones and rockets to Algeria’s Polisario proxies. Polisario mouthpieces on social media have recently displayed photos of a truck loaded with the Iranian-made […]