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A court in Algeria on Sunday sentenced Ihsane El-Kadi, a prominent journalist in the country, to five years in prison, accusing him of receiving foreign funds with an aim to threaten state security. In addition, the court ruled that Interface Media, which operates the news website Maghreb Emergent and Radio M station, be dissolved and […]
China’s Belt and Road investment in sub-Saharan Africa fell to a new low in 2023, which demonstrates that increased EU and US spending could reduce the region’s need to rely on Beijing for funding. China’s investment in the region related to Beijing’s Belt and Road (BRI) initiative, the main pillar of its global infrastructure development […]
The Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has invited the representatives in New York of Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and Polisario “to informal bilateral consultations with him,” ahead of his upcoming briefing to the Security Council due next month. The announcement was made Tuesday by Mr. Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for […]
The NGO for Economic & Social Development has called in Geneva on the Algerian authorities to put an end to the sufferings and human rights abuses committed on its territory by Polisario armed militiamen in Tindouf camps. Addressing on Monday the ongoing 52nd session of the Human Rights Council during the Universal Periodic Review of […]
The UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on Libya has called for accountability for the crimes against humanity committed in Libya, expressing deep concern over the country’s deteriorating human rights situation. In its final report released Monday in Geneva, the UN Mission said there are grounds to believe a wide array of war crimes and crimes […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Tunisia to speed up efforts in order to reach a deal with the International Monetary Fund that would spare it economic collapse. “The most critical thing they can do on the economic side is actually get an IMF agreement,” Blinken said at a senate hearing in a statement […]
The Algerian president has been uttering contradictory comments since he took office showing the inconsistency of his country’s military regime as far as foreign policy is concerned. He rejects mediation in a conflict his country has created with Morocco, while seeking a role in resolving issues as far as the black sea or the Sahel! […]
Morocco’s central bank and the Moroccan government are pursuing policies that are triggering opposite impacts on inflation. As the central bank tightens its monetary policy by raising the key interest rate for the third time in a row to 3%, the government continues its expansive budgetary policy in line with its goals to spur private […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he gives a “priority” to relations with African countries, as Moscow was looking for new partners in the face of international sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “I want to emphasize that our country has always given and will continue to give priority to co-operation with African states,” Putin […]
The US State Department exposed the degradation of human rights of the military regime in Algiers which has deployed brutal tactics to silence dissent including pretrial detention, torture, cham terrorism charges and free speech muzzeling. The State Department’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released this March, starts by questioning the atmosphere of elections […]