First Independent Mena Newspaper
Nine years after Algeria first activated the printing presses under the guise of “non-conventional financing,” the regime’s addiction to helicopter money remains firmly in place. What was presented in 2017 as a temporary five-year lifeline to stave off bankruptcy has become a permanent fixture of fiscal mismanagement. The Bank of Algeria continues to bankroll a […]
UN fourth Committee has supported the historic Security Council Resolution 2797 which endorsed the Autonomy plan under Moroccan sovereignty dealing a hard blow the Algerian regime and Polisario separatists. Yet, in a desperate move to conceal their new diplomatic setback, the deceptive and delusional Algerian junta and Polisario media tried to trumpet false victory drawing […]
The Algeria-backed Polisario Front is in open panic ahead of a decisive UN Security Council vote, launching a desperate attack on UN Personal Envoy Staffan de Mistura while its Algerian sponsors scramble with contradictory statements, mass arrests of Moroccans, and frantic propaganda. In a statement released Monday in New York, Polisario leader Brahim Ghali accused […]
The visit of Spanish King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia to the occupied Moroccan city of Ceuta represents a heavy-handed attempt to normalize and legitimize Spain’s colonial presence on Moroccan soil, casting a shadow over the otherwise stable relations between Rabat and Madrid in recent years. Coming amid a charged electoral and political climate in […]
From time to time, the Morocco-phobic Algerian regime reaches for a familiar playbook, casting the Kingdom as the villain in a drama staged for a disenchanted population still queuing for basic goods. This time the conspiracy theory produces a script featuring the arrest of 61 Moroccans allegedly preparing sabotage acts, armed with nothing more than […]
UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy Staffan de Mistura is once again drawing sharp criticism for what observers see as a glaring imbalance in his handling of the Sahara file. In his recent briefing, De Mistura targeted the Polisario Front while carefully shielding Algeria, the movement’s main backer and a party to the conflict according to […]
King Mohammed VI has criticized migration cooperation with partners, particularly Spain and called for a new cooperation approach two months after the Ceuta migration crisis, saying Morocco’s partnership is a “sovereign choice” in response to the orchestrated smear campaign. Rethinking migration cooperation between Morocco and its partners is one of the key messages addressed by […]
King Mohammed VI has affirmed that Morocco has succeeded in consolidating its international status as a responsible and reliable partner committed to fulfilling its obligations, stressing that the Kingdom expects the same commitment from its partners. In a speech he delivered Friday before the two Chambers of Parliament at the opening of 1st Session of […]
As Tunisians return to work and school after a punishing summer, empty supermarket shelves, intermittent water supplies, and rolling power cuts have become the new normal, raising concerns that the country is sliding into the same cycle of chronic shortages and state-controlled scarcity long familiar in neighboring Algeria. In the capital and across the country, […]
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune delivered another of his periodic media performances speaking for nearly two hours with carefully selected state journalists. As has become routine, the president talked a great deal and said remarkably little of substance, even as the domestic economy deteriorated and Algeria’s diplomatic irrelevance deepens. Algerians waited in vain for clarity or […]