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The Biden Administration has told the Algerian regime that it wants support for the UN political process on the Sahara and stability in the region. This message was conveyed by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman during talks she held Tuesday with the newly appointed Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf. According to a statement […]
The NGO for Economic & Social Development has called in Geneva on the Algerian authorities to put an end to the sufferings and human rights abuses committed on its territory by Polisario armed militiamen in Tindouf camps. Addressing on Monday the ongoing 52nd session of the Human Rights Council during the Universal Periodic Review of […]
International NGO “Doctors without Borders” denounced on Friday Algeria’s continuing expulsion of thousands of migrants who are abandoned in the desert of northern Niger without access to shelter, healthcare, protection, or basic necessities. Between 11 January and 3 March 2023, 4,677 migrants arrived into Assamaka – a town in northern Niger’s Agadez region – on […]
Head of EU Diplomacy Josep Borrell called, on Monday during his two-day visit to Algiers, for a solution to Algeria’s barriers on trade with Spain, introduced in June 2022. “The barriers introduced [by Algeria] to trade with Spain, since June 2022, must find a solution,” said the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign […]
They were at least 10,000 people who marched in Paris chanting slogans in support of Kabylie independence and condemning the military regime in Algeria for its crackdown on peaceful pro-independence activists. The march was organized by Kabyle independence movement, MAK, after its leader Ferhat Mhenni was handed the capital punishment along with 49 other leaders. […]
The Algerian army has killed a Sahrawi dweller of the Polisario-run Tindouf camp after shooting a pick-up in which he was transporting smuggled fuel. The assassinated Sahrawi is Said Ould El Bachir Ould Chaabane, a native of the Rguibat Oulad Daoud tribe who was known for making a living out of smuggled fuel. Summary executions […]
A UN Human Rights Independent expert has called on Algeria to stop attacking civil society organizations which have been facing increasing pressure from the state which has dissolved the country’s prominent two non-governmental human rights entities. La Ligue algérienne pour la défense des droits de l’homme [The Algerian League for Human Rights Defense] (LADDH) and […]
On the fourth anniversary of Algeria’s pro-democracy protest movement, known as the Hirak, human rights watchdogs rang the alarm again, saying the situation of human rights in the North African country is under serious threat. The pattern toward a more authoritarian, less competitive regime is clear as authorities are intensifying repression against civil society organizations, […]
Algeria has flashed out in recent days close to 900 sub-Saharan migrants as the country closes ears to criticism of its inhuman expulsion of Africans abandoned, unattended in the desert at the border with Niger. Exactly 899 migrants from 16 southern Saharan countries were deported by Algerian authorities on February 12, said Alarm Phone Sahara, […]
The Civil Coalition for the Protection of Children in the Tindouf Camps, which includes more than 120 NGOs, sounded the alarm bell over the alarming situation of Moroccan children sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, noting that the Algeria-backed separatist group recruits thousands of children, exploits them sexually, enslaves them and forces girls to marry […]