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The Algerian military junta has ridiculed itself once again as it keeps miring itself in conspiracy theories saying this time that one Moroccan was arrested among hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the street of Algiers demanding a clean break with an opaque and corrupt regime. As the Hirak regains its momentum following […]
Mauritania’s President Mohamed ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has refused to receive a Polisario emissary who is in Nouakchott for five days, reported le360.ma, saying that the move irked Algeria which continues to pull the strings of the separatist militia. The Polisario envoy, Mustapha Sayed, has been in Nouakchott for five days without being able to […]
Morocco has reiterated its call on the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) to put pressure on Algeria to lift its blockade on the Tindouf camps where it has relegated the fate of thousands of Sahraouis to a separatist militia that trades in their suffering. Speaking before the 80th meeting of the UNHCR Standing Committee, Morocco’s representative […]
Algeria, which is known as a traditional customer of Russian and Chinese arms, has become the major buyer of German weapons during the past four years, according to new data released by the Stockholm-based International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). In its report on global arms transfers between 2016-20, the Swedish Think-tank ranks Algeria as […]
Queues in Algerian post offices of employees waiting to receive their salaries are getting longer as the country experiences a liquidity crisis combined with higher inflation that hit purchasing power of citizens. The cosmetic measures introduced by the government have not anticipated the cash crisis in the country where the banking system is one of […]
The immolation of two Sahraoui men by the Algerian army near the Polisario-run camps of Tindouf where Algeria has forsaken thousands of Sahraouis in inhuman living conditions was denounced again before the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The two men were immolated alive with gasoline by the Algerian army after it caught […]
By March 18, Moroccan farmers have amassed whatever they could take after Algerian authorities addressed them an ultimatum to leave a border area near Figuig which they have cultivated for generations. They are victims of arbitrary colonial borders on the one hand and of an Algerian hostile regime to anything Moroccan, on the other. A […]
Morocco has called for urgent actions to alleviate the suffering of Sahraouis held against their will in the Polisario-administered camps under the complicit gaze of Algeria. Speaking at an international conference in Rabat, head of the government Saad Dine El Otmani put special emphasis on the need to protect vulnerable social groups such as women. […]
A Russian official has branded rubbish reports in Algeria that Moscow is manufacturing state-of-art Su-34 fighter jets for the Algerian army, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) reports. Reports from Algiers indicated that Moscow is set to deliver a first batch of six Russian Su-34 fighter aircraft to the North African country and that Algerian pilots would […]
The American Heritage Foundation Think Thank which has just published its Index of Economic Freedom 2021 ranked Algeria 162nd out of the 178 countries listed and 13th among 14 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Algeria’s economic freedom score is 49.7, making its economy the 162nd freest in the 2021 Index, the […]