First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco booked a place at the U17 FIFA World Cup finals after defeating on Wednesday in Constantine hosts Algeria 3-0 in the quarter finals of U17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). With their stunning victory in a fully packed stadium over Algeria, the Atlas Cubs make it to the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of […]
Algerian authorities are gearing towards a massive expulsion of thousands of sub-Saharans, settled in the suburbs of Algiers, purportedly because they propagate tuberculosis The expected expulsion order came in an official note from the Wali of Algiers, initialed by Mohammed Lamine Houari. Sub-Saharan migrants are settled in the vicinity of Algiers, particularly in Sidi Moussa, […]
Newsweek has affirmed that the Algerian regime supports the Polisario armed militia with money, weapons and military training, noting that the world does not need another crisis in North Africa. Rabat and Algiers are locked into a decades-long struggle over the Sahara, said the U.S. magazine in an Op-Ed authored by Gordon Chang who described […]
Former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki deplored his country’s descent to authoritarianism under Kais Saied and his mentor Algeria which he said “never stopped intervening in our internal affairs.” “Algeria opposed us after the revolution and spared no effort to foil Tunisian democracy,” Marzouki told Algerian opposition channel Canal 22 Algérie. The Algerian regime was intent […]
The European Parliament has withdrawn a resolution condemning Algeria’s crackdown on the media and its freedom of speech violation, a move that was orchestrated by Macron’s MEPs. The resolution was intended to denounce the muzzling of the media by the Algerian regime and the arrest of journalists including editor in chief of the country’s last […]
The Iranian regime’s export of drones to destabilizing actors is shaking the entire MENA region, and as the war in Ukraine has shown, shakes even Western countries, warns Alex Grinberg, expert on Iran based at the Jerusalem Institute for Security and Strategy, who underlines that after Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, the Iranian […]
The Arab Maghreb Union AMU issued on April 18 a detailed statement asking Algeria to pay its duties, while debunking the false arguments underlying Algeria’s hysterical reaction to the appointment of a Moroccan citizen as permanent representative of AMU to the African Union. The statement was issued five days after Algeria’s blunt statement in which […]
After a series of arbitrary arrests and bogus charges against outspoken reporters, Algeria moved to institutionalize its crackdown on free speech through a law that makes muzzling the press a legal process. The law includes provisions forcing journalists to uncover their sources and bans receiving foreign funds, a charge that has been used to shutdown […]
The workers’ party (PT), one of the main opposition parties in Algeria, drew a gloomy picture of the human rights situation in the country, calling for the release of political detainees and prisoners of conscience. In a statement issued after the weekly meeting of the secretariat of its political bureau, the workers’ party called on […]
Amnesty International has denounced the “extreme measures” used by the Algerian authorities to silence critical voices, calling for the release of all wrongfully detained journalists, dropping all politically motivated charges against at least six of them and overturning the conviction of journalist Ihsane El Kadi. El Kadi was sentenced on April 2 to five years […]