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As Tunisia braces for presidential elections in December 2024, a fog of repression looms over the country that was once the Arab Spring’s success story before it backpedaled to autocracy under a president intent on staying in power. President Kais Saied destroyed the democracy ladder that brought him to power starting a gradual power grab […]
Human Rights activists alerted at an international gathering in Geneva to the gruesome practice by the Polisario in forcing women held in the Tindouf camps in southwestern Algeria to procreate against their will. A Geneva based NGO that promotes economic and social development rights (PDES) launched the alert at the 55th session of the Human […]
The Algerian presidency said presidential elections will be held on September 7, the second vote after the country’s 2019 pro-democracy Hirak that failed to remove the military junta. Abdelmedjid Tebboune is expected to run for a second term. Though his candidacy has not been announced yet. The election will take place at a context of […]
The European Union reaffirmed, in its 2023 report, the positive socio-economic impact of the agricultural agreement with Morocco, and the full benefit of the agreement’s provisions for the population of the kingdom’s southern provinces. The publication of this annual report by the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) comes on the heels […]
The United States has commended the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the first UN resolution on artificial intelligence (AI), which was initially sponsored by Morocco and the U.S.A. The resolution, co-sponsored by over 120 countries by the day of its adoption, “is a historic step toward establishing clear international norms for AI […]
Algeria’s voice internationally has become inaudible as men in uniform steer an Algerian diplomacy in disarray, suffering a series of setbacks in recent years that deepened the country’s isolation regionally and globally. Since 2019 when general Chengriha took power- ruling behind a thin civilian curtain represented by civilian President Tebboune- a “new Algeria” was declared […]
The Spanish presidency has dismissed the allegations that Morocco had spied on its Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez or carried hostile acts against Spain. This came in a Spanish annual security report 2023 by its counter-espionage service which dedicated a large section to Morocco given the cooperation ties between the two countries in critical areas such […]
The recent conclusions of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union detail the progress made in the appeals filed by the EU Council and the European Commission against the decision of the Court of First Instance regarding agricultural and fisheries agreements with Morocco. It is important to note that these […]
An expropriation case in Rabat has exposed the extent of endemic misinformation of the Algerian regime, who issued a strong-worded statement claiming to be unaware and wrongfully denouncing a confiscation, until it was discredited by its own documents. Official Algerian correspondences leaked to Moroccan media showed that Algeria was fully aware of Morocco’s intent to […]
After Morocco announced its decision to expropriate a villa owned by the Algerian state for public utility purposes, Algeria’s foreign ministry issued a statement that shows that victim discourse, fake news, and conspiracy theories have become a standard tactic. Morocco has decided after years of waiting to lawfully expropriate a villa owned by Algeria to […]