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The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday (26 June) convicted an al-Qaida-linked jihadist who was accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during Islamist militants’ one-year rule over Mali’s Timbuktu in 2012. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud was found guilty of playing a key role in a reign of […]
Moscow has effectively dismantled and largely taken over the Wagner Group and its African operations, once led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, in the year since the mercenaries launched a mutiny against President Vladimir Putin’s government, according to experts. For years, the Kremlin worked through the paramilitary group to covertly prop up authoritarian leaders, exploit natural resources, […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against terrorist leader Iyad Ag Ghaly and urged states to cooperate to bring him before justice, in a clear allusion to Algeria. Ghaly is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in northern Mali between January 2012 and January 2013. A Tuareg descendant of […]
Human rights activists have launched an urgent appeal on the United Nations to lift the blockade on the Tindouf camps in southwestern Algeria and allow access to the camps, which are witnessing an unprecedented deterioration of human rights conditions, as reported by several international organizations. On the sidelines of the 56th session of the Human […]
There is a good chance that travelers will be able to board a high-speed train in Madrid and travel from Spain to the Moroccan city of Casablanca in five and a half hours, through a new tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar, says U.S. Forbes magazine. Spain and Morocco are now reconsidering this ambitious undertaking, […]
Chariot energy Company has signed an agreement with Vivo Energy Maroc firm on future natural gas offtake from the Loukos Onshore license in which the British company holds 75% stake, while Moroccan National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) has 25 %. In a press release issued Monday, Chariot said the aim of the agreement […]
The Moroccan men’s beach volleyball team qualified, on Sunday, for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, after winning the African championship held in Martil, northern Morocco. The Moroccan team, composed of Zouheir Elgraoui and Mohamed Abicha, retained their African title by beating Mozambique in the final with two sets to zero (21-18, 21-12). The Moroccan […]
Mauritania has overtaken Senegal as the main departure point for those taking on the perilous Atlantic crossing to the Spain’s Canary Islands, during which more than 5,000 people died in the first five months of this year. 95% of migrants who try to reach Spain by sea do so on Atlantic Ocean crossings from West […]
French police has let go one of the outspoken leaders of the Kabyle independence movement, known as MAK, wanted by Algiers. Aksel Bellabaci has been interrogated by the French police in Paris following an arrest warrant filed by Algeria, which accuses the Kabyle activist of igniting fires in Kabyle region in 2021. The failure to […]
Algeria’s president Abdelmadjid Tebboune was invited to the latest G7 summit held in Italy due to the pressure exerted by French President Emmanuel Macron, says a London-based think-tank in its latest report. If, as expected, French party Rassemblement National (RN) wins upcoming snap parliamentary elections and takes control of the government, it will almost certainly […]