First Independent Mena Newspaper
Mali’s representative to the UN in New York has openly accused Algeria of backing terrorist and separatist groups, in response to an Algerian representative’s statement accusing Mali of using drones against civilians. Mali, backed by Russia, has been battling Tuareg Azawad rebels who have turned more towards Algeria in recent months. Speaking at a UN […]
The Algerian regime has suffered another humiliating diplomatic setback in Beijing after the Chinese authorities refused the participation of the Polisario in the ongoing China-Africa cooperation forum. This is another slap on the face of ruling Algerian junta and their separatist militias in just few days after the Tokyo scandal which exposed their total failure, […]
At the Indonesia-Africa Forum, Indonesian authorities learned lessons from the laxism of Japanese authorities with participants by imposing that only participants with a valid badge with a nametag can take part in the event, leaving Algeria unable to smuggle the Polisario agents as it did in Tokyo. Algeria has violated diplomatic norms in the Japan-Africa […]
The Algeria-backed Polisario militiamen have received nearly 40,000 voter registration cards believed to be used in manipulating the voter turnout of the presidential election scheduled for Sep.07, according to Sahrawis sequestered in Tindouf camps. During his campaign, President Abdelmajid Tebboune, who is seeking a second term, has reaffirmed his support for the Polisario which is […]
Kenya’s first ambassador to Morocco, Ms. Jessica Muthoni Gakinya, was received Friday in Rabat by Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita. During the meeting, the Kenyan envoy handed over copies of her credentials to the minister, sending a strong message to the Algerian regime which has spent billions of dollars in a bid to thwart rapprochement […]
After silencing dissent, sending scores of political opponents to jail or forcing them into exile, the Algerian regime has stepped up its crackdown with the kidnapping of opposition figure and leader of Algeria’s communist party MDS Fethi Ghares. Ghares’ wife, Messaouda Chaballah, said that agents in plainclothes took him from his home, and that his […]
Mehdi Ghezzar, Algerian commentator with French radio RMC and head of Tebboune’s electoral campaign in France, spit his venom while speaking on the Algerian mouthpiece AL24, describing Morocco in derogatory terms while proffering antisemitic remarks. The derogatory remarks cost him his position at RMC, which officially announced that it will terminate his participation in a […]
Lacking tangible achievements to use in his electoral campaign, President Tebboune uses imagination, telling a crowd of his supporters that Algeria has become the third largest economy in the world. The statement was met with euphoria by a crowd that has been brainwashed by a military regime using the media, education, co-option and mostly oppression. […]
Japan reiterated that it does not recognize the Polisario’s self-declared SADR entity and that it deals with UN member states only. The position was reaffirmed by Japan’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fukazawa Yoichi, at a TICAD plenary summit. A day earlier, a Moroccan diplomat was violently attacked by a senior Algerian diplomat as he […]
The separatist Polisario Front caused uproar during the preparatory ministerial meeting for the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9), scheduled for August 24-25, 2024, in Tokyo, after some of its members infiltrated the meeting despite not being invited. Japan did not invite the so-called “SADR” or the Polisario, and the official list […]