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As his predecessors, the new UN envoy for the Sahara, Staffan De Mistura, is expected to head shortly to the North African region for consultations with the parties to the Sahara conflict: Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and the Polisario. The UN envoy “is actively preparing his first regional tour”, has said lately Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for […]
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet them on your way back! So says an adage that applies well to Algeria’s hysterical and hostile attacks on the World Bank after it issued a report that merely states the obvious and urges Algeria to take action to avert the collapse of […]
UN experts and Special Rapporteurs have accused the Algerian regime of “politically instrumentalizing terrorism” to suppress public freedoms. In a correspondence addressed to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), these UN experts and rapporteurs accused the Algerian regime of politically instrumentalizing “terrorism” to repress and prohibit public freedoms. According […]
The escalation by the Algerian military junta against Morocco will not help it solve its deepening internal crisis or escape accountability, writes Lebanese journalist Khairallah Khairallah in an Op-Ed published Wednesday by “Al-Nahar Al-Arabi”. The failed Algerian regime should seek another way out and cease using the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel as […]
Samia Errazouki, a US-Moroccan citizen and former journalist, used Foreign Policy to spit her venom on its motherland (Morocco) paying lip service to the inaudible Algerian lobby in Washington. In a hateful article entitled, “Morocco’s Diplomatic Morass”, Errazouki usurped the position of a Foreign Policy journalist in seeking comments from the anti-Moroccan Algerian lobby in […]
Algerians woke up to renewed queues on cooking oil and bread in 2022, two commodities that joined a list of long essential goods whose prices spiked under the impact of high inflation and import cuts. The queues indicate shortages coupled with a high inflation of basic products under the impact of a state policy to […]
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera have adopted Morocco’s undivided map, including its Sahara territory, dealing a hard blow to the Algerian regime and its polisario puppet. The move comes after the Arab League’s recent decision to adopt a unified map of the Arab world, showing undivided Morocco including […]
Algeria’s military regime has hit a new low in its response to a World Bank report warning of worsening poverty and bleak economic prospects in the country. In a 60-page report, the World Bank pointed to a series of dysfunctions in the oil and gas reliant Algerian economy which augur ill for the country’s economic […]
Algerians from all walks of life continued to suffer in 2021 from acute shortage of bread, milk, cooking oil, potatoes, sugar, pasta, oxygen for covid-19 patients and ICU beds, while their rulers are squandering the country’s petrodollars on military expenditure. Such explosive social situation with deepening political crisis is fueling Hirak pro-democracy protestors demanding a […]
About three months to the Arab summit that Algiers is supposed to host, Algerian diplomacy refuses to pull its head from the sand, spreading fake news and propaganda about the Arab League’s decision to adopt a unified map which shows the full Moroccan Map from the Mediterranean to the Mauritanian border. Algeria’s news agency APS- […]