Category: Algeria

Algeria steps up repression against Hirak activists amid COVID-19 lockdown (EuroMed Rights)

June 18, 2020

The EuroMed Rights NGO has condemned the use by the Algerian authorities of the COVID-19 lockdown as a pretext to continue their crackdown against pro-democracy ... Read More

Algeria’s connection with terror groups in Sahel region raised by French Le Monde

June 16, 2020

Algeria’s near silence following the death of leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), killed in Mali early this month by French troops, has ... Read More

Algeria : Repression intensifies with new arrests of Hirak leaders

June 16, 2020

The Algerian authorities have arrested lately three leading figures of the “Hirak” protest movement amid the covid-19 pandemic, which has not prevented the oppression machine ... Read More

Algeria: three people killed, several injured in demonstration in Tinzaouatine

June 16, 2020

At least three people were killed and several others were wounded on Monday, June 15 in Tinzaouatine, province of Tamanrasset, by elements of the Algerian ... Read More

Majority of people in Polisario-run Tindouf camps are not even Sahrawis, a fugitive says

June 14, 2020

A man who managed to escape the siege imposed on thousands of people in Tindouf has confirmed the information according to which the Polisario and ... Read More

Is the Algerian regime Morocco’s enemy?

June 11, 2020

The context in which the Algerian presidency spokesman made hostile comments about the Moroccan diplomacy raises questions as to the real motives from such allegations ... Read More

Chile closes its embassy in Algiers

June 10, 2020

Chili announced it will shut down its foreign mission in Algeria and four other countries by the end of 2020 in a move to reduce ... Read More

Morocco rejects blunder of Algerian presidency spokesman

June 10, 2020

Morocco rejected in the strongest terms the verbal blunders uttered by the spokesman for the Algerian presidency who alleged that the Moroccan consul in Oran ... Read More

EU concerned over deteriorating human rights situation in Algeria

June 8, 2020

The EU foreign Affairs chief Josep Borrell has voiced the European Union’s concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in Algeria, the arbitrary detention of ... Read More

Moroccan consul in Oran returns home after May diplomatic incident

June 8, 2020

Morocco’s consul in the Algerian city of Oran has returned to the kingdom, nearly a month after he allegedly branded Algeria “country enemy”. The diplomat ... Read More