First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Algerian military junta continues its irrational hostile actions against neighboring Morocco in a bid to deflect popular attention from growing challenges at home. After cutting diplomatic ties with Rabat, closing its airspace to Moroccan planes and stopping pumping gas through the pipeline crossing the North African Kingdom, the Algerian authorities have decided lately to […]
Algeria’s military junta planned to use the Mediterranean games to polish the image of a country beset by authoritarianism, poverty and instability. But its hopes were crushed, as the country accumulated rebukes for its organization fiasco. In a regime that has for long politicized sports and culture, the Algerian regime denied access to nine Moroccan […]
While the Algerian regime hoped to use Mediterranean Games as an opportunity to hide its politico-economic setbacks and burnish its image, the event turned out to be an organizational fiasco. The Secretary General of the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (ICMG) used harsh words to denounce a botched organization of the games, the first to […]
The United Arab Emirates expressed its opposition to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s decision to appoint former Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum as UN envoy to Libya, Libya Observer reports, citing diplomatic sources. The Gulf country told the Security Council that some Arab countries and Libyan parties reject Boukadoum’s nomination. Guterres last week proposed Boukadoum to […]
Most of the migrants who took part in Melilla’s deadly crossing last Friday were from eastern Africa, notably Sudan, who could only access Morocco after crossing the Algerian border. The role of Algeria is evident in creating this migration crisis in Northern Morocco. According to Spanish paper El Mundo, quoting security officials in Madrid, Algeria […]
The Moroccan Sports Press Association (AMPS) has condemned the decision of the Algerian authorities to prevent the Moroccan media delegation from entering Algeria to cover the 19th edition of the Mediterranean Games, scheduled to take place in Oran from June 25 to July 6. “The AMPS is shocked to learn that the media delegation accompanying […]
Former detainee in polisario jails, Fadel Breika, denounced before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), in Geneva, the trafficking in human beings prevailing in the camps of Tindouf, under the control of separatist militias, on Algerian territory. Speaking on Thursday, under the interactive dialogue with the UN rapporteur on human trafficking, as part of the […]
The Mauritanian NGO “Réseau Unité pour le Développement de Mauritanie” has denounced in a complaint to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva the alarming situation prevailing in the polisario-controlled Tindouf camps in Algeria. In the complaint submitted to the HRC, NGO chairman Mohamed Vall Barka decried the intimidation and repression suffered by human rights […]
As the recruitment and exploitation of children in crises and political conflicts is a war crime under international humanitarian law. As the recruitment and exploitation of children in conflicts is a violation of the essence of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and its annexed protocols and it requires no impunity. As […]
In a context of increasing repression of peaceful demonstrations by the Algerian security forces, hundreds of people have been arbitrarily arrested since the beginning of the peaceful movement Al hirak, including many human rights defenders who try to expose corruption and frauds in Algeria. This anti-corruption activism exposes human rights defenders to years of prison […]