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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 […]
Réseau Unité pour le Développement de Mauritanie (non-governmental organization in special consultative status) : From our belief in the importance of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights and its pivotal role in consolidating peace and the welfare of peoples and respect for human rights around the world, we are sending you this communication […]
Anger is still boiling up inside the Algerian regime, irked by the firm support voiced by Spanish government to the autonomy plan offered by Morocco for the Sahara under its sovereignty. The resentment continues building up pushing the ruling military junta to take irrational decisions undermining the EU-Algeria Association Agreement. Among the latest vindictive measures […]
Nothing demonstrates the deep isolation of the Algerian regime in its Arab and African environment than the abstinence of the Arab League and the African Union from taking a stand on the Algeria-Spain feud. In contrast, when Spain tried to Europeanize its crisis with Morocco last year, the Arab League, the Arab Parliament and the […]