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The Algerian regime is set on using the penal code to curb freedom of speech with the introduction of amendments that threaten with life imprisonment anyone who leaks security or economic documents or information. The new law comes as Algerian journalists in exile continue to unveil the endemic corruption and failed policies of Tebboune’s administration […]
Algeria’s mouthpiece APS has officially made it clear that the country under the rule of General Chengriha is seeking a Maghreb without Morocco. The Arab Maghreb Union, bringing together Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, is dead and should be replaced by the “Declaration of Carthage”, the APS said referring to a meeting between Algeria’s […]
The British government has deemed any commercial activity in the Moroccan Sahara “legal,” thus thwarting the aims of Polisario supporters in the House of Commons, the UK parliament. Responding to a written question from Labor MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle about the possibility of “creating a United Nations Council for the natural resources of Western Sahara,” David […]
An inaugural International Forum on the Moroccan Sahara opened on Wednesday in Dakhla. The forum is meant to catalyze scholarly discourse and forward-looking analysis concerning the emerging geo-economic landscape in the region. The agenda of the forum, that is attended by scores of academics and researchers from various disciplines, features several topics, including the Sahara’s […]
The Wall Street Journal highlighted the independence declaration by Kabylia’s MAK movement after years of repression under the Algerian regime. “After half a century of working with human-rights and democratic groups in Algeria to liberalize the one-party police state, Kabyle spokesmen, including Mr. Mehenni, brought the case for decolonization to the U.N. A few days […]
Algeria’s U17 handball team has withdrawn from an Arab championship to avoid playing against a Moroccan squad with jerseys bearing the Kingdom’s full map including Sahara provinces. The decision is the second in a row involving the Moroccan map, after Algerian customs detained jerseys of RS Berkane football team. The African football federation had judged […]
Chairman of Libya’s Presidential Council Mohamed Yunes El-Menfi has sent a written message to King Mohammed VI following the 2nd tripartite summit convened by Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya in the absence of Morocco and Mauritania. The Libyan message was handed over to Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita by El-Menfi’s brother and personal envoy during a […]
Sierra Leone, which has a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council, said the autonomy plan is the only “credible, serious and realistic” solution to end the dispute over the Sahara. This came in a joint statement following talks in Rabat between Sierra Leonean and Moroccan foreign ministers, Timothy Musa Kabba and Nasser Bourita. […]
Chile’s Foundation for Human Rights Without Borders has strongly condemned the major human rights violations committed by the Algeria-backed Polisario militias in the Tindouf camps, saying the separatist group is threatening peace and stability in the whole North African region. In its latest press release, the NGO said most of the Polisario members are wanted […]
The Kabylia independence movement, MAK, officially declared the rebirth of the Kabyle state at a ceremony in New York, after years of peaceful struggle against Algerian occupation. The independence proclamation took place in New York near the UN marking the ambition of the new Kabyle state to become a fully-fledged member of the international community. […]