First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Algerian scheme to bury the Arab Maghreb Union and replace it with a union with cash-strapped Tunisia and Tripoli government was met with strong rejection by eastern Libya’s foreign minister Abdulhadi Lahouij. Tebboune said last week he agreed with Tunisia’s Kais Said and the head of Tripoli’s presidential council Mohammed Menfi to create a […]
Soon after announcing early elections on September 7, the civilian façade of the Algerian military regime kicked off his electoral campaign with an interview fraught with blunders, false promises, inflated economic figures, and political amateurism. Two sycophant journalists led the interview asking tailored questions to a president, who is faithful to a regime that made […]
The Algerian foreign minister Ahmed Attaf surprisingly said an expropriation case of unused buildings owned by Algeria in Morocco was closed, few days only after vowing to retaliate using harsh words in a foreign ministry statement. Speaking to Algerian reporters, Attaf said Algeria found Morocco’s response “appropriate” and closed the case. Algeria has said it […]
Human Rights activists alerted at an international gathering in Geneva to the gruesome practice by the Polisario in forcing women held in the Tindouf camps in southwestern Algeria to procreate against their will. A Geneva based NGO that promotes economic and social development rights (PDES) launched the alert at the 55th session of the Human […]
Few days after the Algerien presidency announced elections on September 7 instead of December, neither President Tebboune nor any Algerian official gave an explanation why the vote would take place before the end of the current mandate. Tebboune has not taken the effort of giving a public address to tell his people why he decided […]
The Algerian presidency said presidential elections will be held on September 7, the second vote after the country’s 2019 pro-democracy Hirak that failed to remove the military junta. Abdelmedjid Tebboune is expected to run for a second term. Though his candidacy has not been announced yet. The election will take place at a context of […]
Algeria’s voice internationally has become inaudible as men in uniform steer an Algerian diplomacy in disarray, suffering a series of setbacks in recent years that deepened the country’s isolation regionally and globally. Since 2019 when general Chengriha took power- ruling behind a thin civilian curtain represented by civilian President Tebboune- a “new Algeria” was declared […]
The violations suffered by women at the hands of the Algeria-backed polisario separatists in the Tindouf camps were denounced during an event organized in New York by the International Network of Liberal Women (INLW). In a declaration adopted at the end of the event held on the sidelines of the 68th session of the UN […]
An expropriation case in Rabat has exposed the extent of endemic misinformation of the Algerian regime, who issued a strong-worded statement claiming to be unaware and wrongfully denouncing a confiscation, until it was discredited by its own documents. Official Algerian correspondences leaked to Moroccan media showed that Algeria was fully aware of Morocco’s intent to […]
After Morocco announced its decision to expropriate a villa owned by the Algerian state for public utility purposes, Algeria’s foreign ministry issued a statement that shows that victim discourse, fake news, and conspiracy theories have become a standard tactic. Morocco has decided after years of waiting to lawfully expropriate a villa owned by Algeria to […]