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After Jihadists, Wagner now recruits Tindouf camps youth

Wagner is taking advantage to recruit young fighters from the Polisario-run Tindouf camps in Algeria, where Jihadist AQMI and ISIS have found fertile ground to enroll fighters. The alarm bell was rang by FORSATIN, a Sahrawi forum that brings together advocates of Morocco’s autonomy plan. “The early April attack by Wagner fighters on the Mauritanian […]

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Water, next episode in Algeria’s “blame Morocco” game

Blaming Morocco for self-inflicted troubles has become a national sports among members of the Algerian regime. This time, an obscure Algerian Minister Taha Derbal has accused Morocco of drying up Algeria’s west, where nearly 1.7 million have suffered days of water outages. Algeria has pinned the blame on Morocco previously for climate-induced wild fires, shortages […]

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Spain warns its nationals from travelling to Polisario-run camps in Algeria

Spain issued its third warning in a row asking its citizens not to visit the Tindouf camps, where Algeria has abandoned thousands of Sahrawis to the mercy of a separatist militia, the Polisario, that trades in their suffering. The warning was issued by the Spanish foreign ministry in a context marked by increasing Jihadist and […]

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Algeria’s role in perpetuating conflict over Morocco’s Sahara highlighted in Caracas

Moroccan ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale asked Algeria to look in the mirror and acknowledge its role as the real party that has blocked any progress towards a political solution of the artificial conflict over the Sahara. The diplomat made the remark while he was responding to the Algerian ambassador’s speech or diatribe in […]

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33rd Summit of League of Arab States: King Reaffirms Firm Determination to Keep Palestinian Cause at Core of Efforts to Achieve Just, Lasting Peace in Middle East

King Mohammed VI, of Morocco, reaffirmed on Thursday His firm support for the brotherly Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights and establish their independent, sovereign state, as well as His firm determination to make sure the Palestinian issue remains at the core of efforts to establish a just and lasting peace in the Middle […]

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Bahrain: Algeria fails to include Sahara issue in Arab Summit agenda

The Algerian regime has suffered another humiliating diplomatic setback following its failure to include the Sahara issue in the agenda of the upcoming Arab summit due in Bahrain May 16. According to diplomatic sources, the Arab League has rejected the Algerian hostile and provocative move, affirming that the Pan-Arab Organization respects the sovereignty of Arab […]

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Moroccan King orders upgrade of military training programs

King Mohammed VI, the supreme commander, and chief of the general staff of the Royal Armed Forces, gave an Order of the Day address to the officers of the Royal Armed Forces lauding their professionalism in defending Morocco’s stability and their efficient earthquake response and called for an assessment of training programs, while focusing on […]

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Repression intensifies in Tunisia as economic outlook worsens

Tunisia, under President Kais Saied, has backpedaled from democracy to autocracy in its abhorrent forms as the regime increasingly reconnects with its repressive past sending critics, opposition figures, and journalists to jail while surfing on a populist tide. After concentrating all powers in his firm grip, Saied is paving the way for his second term […]

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British MP commends Moroccan King’s interfaith dialogue & protection of religious minorities

Member of UK Parliament Daniel Kawczynski has praised King Mohammed VI’s interfaith dialogue, leadership, and protection of religious minorities. During a Westminster Hall debate held lately at UK Parliament, the Conservative MP (Shrewsbury and Atcham) said: “I have been visiting the country for many years, and I have seen a multi-faith, multicultural, inclusive society. I […]

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Why Teboune should thank Nigeria for Algerian economy’s African ranking

Algeria’s President Tebboune has received a boon from Nigeria whose GDP shrunk to become the fourth largest African economy, ceding the third place to Algeria. In what many observers see as an early electoral campaign, Tebboune gave half-economic truths as usual boasting that Algeria became the third largest African economy, thanks to his policies! In […]