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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 […]
The American complacency with the authoritarian Algerian regime is over. Time has come for U.S. engagement and deterrence to prevent the Algerian warmongers (de facto rulers) from destabilizing North Africa and Morocco, a major non-NATO Ally of the United States in the region. With tension soaring and emerging reports of Algerian plans of escalating the […]
Both Tunisia and Algeria were supposed to submit their candidacies for a seat at the Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the North Africa region. But only one of them was expected to be elected member of the CAF Executive Committee. The election is set for March 2025 in Cairo, Egypt. […]
The authoritarian Algerian regime is in a state of panic and anxiety since announcement by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump of the nomination of Republican senator Marco Rubio to lead the State department. While announcing the appointment, Trump said Rubio, 53, would be “a strong advocate for our nation, a true friend to our allies and […]
The enraged Algerian military regime is beating the drums of war again in reaction to consecutive Moroccan inroads in defending its sovereignty over the Sahara and its autonomy plan for the territory. Unable to swallow a painful blow dealt by the UN Security Council in its recent resolution on the Sahara issue, Algeria seems to […]