First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Algerian regime, thirsty for whatsoever international gains, was deflated by BRICS nations which did not even include the country among the five new potential candidates to join the grouping in South Africa. Algeria has been punching above its weight asking officially to join BRICS with President Tebboune openly courting Russia to help it access […]
NGO PDES (French acronym for ‘Promotion of Economic and Social Development’) has sounded the alarm about the serious, appalling conditions facing women in conflict zones such as the Tindouf camps in South-Western Algeria, where they are experiencing gender-based violence. Speaking at the annual discussion on women’s rights, held in Geneva as part of the 53rd […]
The latest short-lived Wagner mutiny that shook Russia, which occurred barely a week after Algerian President’s visit to Moscow, will have weakened both Abdelmajid Tebboune and Gen. Saïd Chengriha’s Russophile wing of the army, said a London-based think-tank. What happens in Russia could have major implications for Algeria. After Tebboune’s visit, it seemed clear that, […]
The crumbling of the Polisario movement, whose members have ties with criminal groups, human traffickers and Al-Qaeda terror cells operating in the Sahel, is a source of serious “concern” for the region, said Alain Jourdan, President of the Geneva Geostrategic Observatory. “The disintegration of this movement, financed by Algeria and once armed and used by […]
Late on June 20, Ennahar, a mouthpiece of the military rulers in Algeria, said the country asked the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to leave the country after busting four Emirati spies working for the Mossad. The news was later dismissed as a fake by the foreign ministry and the communication minister was sacked […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists joins several other international organizations in denouncing Algerian authorities for extending the prison sentence against journalist Ihsane el-Kadi, calling for his immediate release. On Sunday, June 18, an appeals court in Algiers increased from five to seven years a sentence for el-Kadi, editor-in-chief and director of local independent broadcaster Radio […]
The United Stated slammed Algeria for not respecting the “minimum standards” for the elimination of human trafficking and not making any significant efforts to do so. “The Government of Algeria does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so”, stresses the 2023 Trafficking […]
The Algeria military junta and its polisario separatist puppet have suffered another humiliating setback after the African football governing body (CAF) rejected the membership of the puppet entity, which is armed, funded and sheltered by the Algerian regime. This new diplomatic setback was reported Monday by Africa Intelligence magazine. According to the regulations of the […]
US ambassador to Algiers Elizabeth Moore Aubin has been tweeting non-stop about her trips to different regions or Wilayas in Algeria, visiting in total no less than 22 in contrast to the country’s president Abdelmedjid Tebboune who prefers to stay in his Mouradia palace while waiting for foreign visits to be approved by Paris and […]
Anger continues to build up in the Tindouf camps which are rocked by growing demonstrations making Polisario leaders uncomfortable and responding with more repression and arrests of protesters including women. Demonstrators have set fire to cars belonging to the separatist front, while another group burnt a pharmacy belonging to the son of the so-called interior […]