First Independent Mena Newspaper
The US Assistant Secretary of State David Schenker reiterated while on a visit to Algiers Washington’s support for Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. Schenker said at a press conference following talks with Algeria’s Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum that political dialogue on the basis of Morocco’s autonomy initiative is the only solution to the dispute. The […]
Algerian media continues to speak of an imaginary war in the Moroccan Sahara. A pro-army media, El Bilad, did not bother to check the map when it spoke of Larache, Assilah and Fnideq as cities nearby the Saraha. While recycling a Polisario statement, El Bilad claimed that fierce battles are going on and that wounded […]
The European Union has, in a confidential note, put the finger on the main problems of Algeria in particular the absence of economic strategy. EU economists refer to Algeria as “a ticking time bomb” when talking about the “most unstable country in North Africa after Libya,” says a French expert in an analysis he […]
Ailing president Abdelmadjid Tebboune has returned to Algeria after convalescing in Germany for 60 days. It is not clear however if he has recovered or if he had to interrupt his healing process to pass the 2021 budget law to shun being incapacitated. Tebboune, a heavy smoker, had contracted the coronavirus and had to be […]
The appeal trial of “Madame Maya”, presented as the hidden daughter of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was held this weekend in Tipaza, west of Algiers. The trial is presented as a symbol of the fight against corruption. In first instance, on October 14, Zoulikha-Chafika Nachinache (her real name) who was posing as the daughter of […]
The Algerian regime has instructed its mouthpieces to criticize the UN Secretary General’s choice for the upcoming Envoy for the Sahara in a move that further reflects Algiers isolation in the international scene. Pro-military media including El Watan wrote diatribes attacking Antonio Guterres and accusing him of supporting Morocco by choosing former Romanian Prime Minister […]
The Algerian government’s decision to ban imports of new cars has led to vehicle shortage and soaring of prices of used cars in a country that failed to launch its own car industry. In Algiers, one can buy an old car for the price of a new car as the country adopts measures to keep […]
The Algerian government has devalued the Dinar on the back of dwindling foreign exchange reserves provoking high inflation and concerns of violent unrest. Since the end of the era of expensive oil in 2014, the Algerian dinar took a plunge and now trades for 200 dinars per Euro in the black market. From 200 billion […]
Algeria and Egypt rank among the shortlist of the countries in the world where workers are prevented from exercising their rights while some leaders of various unions are persecuted, the International Trade Union Confederation has said in its rights in the world index 2020. Both countries feature in Category 5 of the index, which is […]
In Algeria, the street protests seem to have faded away for the hundreds of thousands of protesters who, for months, invaded the big cities every week to demand the end of the “system”. The Covid-19 has overcome this popular fervor, but the Hirak, born on 22 February 2019, is resisting. The Hirak militants suspended their […]