First Independent Mena Newspaper
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 […]
Often described as the rising star in the French political scene, French-Moroccan Karim Bouamrane stands as a strong candidate for the position of Prime Minister in France. Born in 1973 to Moroccan immigrant parents, Karim Bouamrane, the current socialist mayor of Saint-Ouen, had an exceptional journey that is leading him to the position of Prime […]
Head of the Kabylie independence movement MAK, Ferhat Mhenni, rejected the recent recycled accusation of terrorism used by the Algerian regime to crackdown on independence activists at home. In an interview with le360, Mhenni- who is based in exile in Paris- highlighted the peaceful character of the Kabyle independence struggle as scores are being jailed […]
U.S. Forbes magazine has lauded the decision of King Mohammed VI of Morocco to pardon 4,831 people convicted, prosecuted, or wanted in cases related to cannabis cultivation, saying the move is an important step toward strengthening Morocco’s position in the global legal cannabis market. The royal pardon was made on the occasion of the 71st […]
Morocco is commemorating this Tuesday August 20 the 71st anniversary of Revolution of the King and the People, an epic in the history of Morocco and a decisive step towards the recovery of the Kingdom’s independence. This historic event serves, if need be, as a reminder of the Moroccan people’s unwavering determination to defend their […]
Since the death of Mandela, South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC, has failed to deliver on its promises at home, opting instead to gear attention to foreign issues, such as the Sahara issue opposing Morocco to Algeria’s Polisario proxies. After the end of apartheid, the ANC as an ideological movement sought to perpetuate its struggle […]