First Independent Mena Newspaper
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Algeria has withdrawn its ambassador to France following Paris support for Morocco and issued numerous statements condemning visits by French officials […]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 […]