First Independent Mena Newspaper
EU officials and media continue to voice concern over the threats of instability in Algeria, which braces for a political crisis marked by the opacity of the regime and disagreements on who will succeed the ailing President Bouteflika and an economic crisis triggered by shrinking oil revenues. “Europe should draw lessons from the tragedy in […]
Morocco sent emergency humanitarian aid to the Sub-Saharan migrants who were cruelly deported by Algerian authorities and abandoned in the desert in northern Niger. The aid was sent upon directives from King Mohammed VI to help the migrants who were abandoned by Algerian authorities in northern Niger in harsh conditions. This humanitarian gesture is in […]
British-Algerian journalist Mohamed Tamalt passed away in coma following a hunger strike that he started in July 2006 after being jailed for sharing a poem about the Algerian President on Facebook. Tamalt was handed a two-year jail term on charges of “offending the president” and “defaming a public authority,” accusations that are typical of authoritarian […]
International rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, called on Algeria to honor its commitments under the 1951 Geneva convention and to bring to a halt all mass deportations of Sub Sharan migrants. The call was expressed in a statement released Friday after Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1400 sub-Saharan migrants in Algiers and deported them […]
Algeria has started sending home thousands of Sub-Saharan migrants and asylum seekers living and working in the North African country for years. Waves of migrants from Niger have been already sent home. The last bash of Nigeriens was expected to arrive early this week-end, Jeune Afrique reports quoting Niger’s consul general in the Algerian city […]
Algiers woke up to scandalous and outrageous statements by an official who is supposed to defend human rights as they are universally recognized. The head of Algeria’s human rights commission Farouk Ksentini has just bluntly accused sub-Saharans of spreading HIV in Algeria, a statement that bears the hallmarks of racism in its abhorrent forms. Algeria, […]
As it heads straight towards a spiral of economic and social turmoil reminiscent of the situation that it experienced in the late 1980s and the 1990s, Algeria tries desperately to catch up with its western neighbor Morocco. As Rabat increasingly outmanoeuvres Algiers on the continent thanks to a decades-long coherent African strategy underpinned by south-south […]
The big PR African business & investment forum which Algerian authorities organized lately in a bid to improve the country’s image that is losing luster in the continent has turned into a fiasco. From the outset, the shaking start of the event was marred by protocol errors showing lack of experience, irking Algerian officials who […]
It seems that plotting against Morocco’s interest and its territorial integrity is the only task the Chairperson of the African Union Commission has excelled at during her tenure in which she accumulated a series of failures on Africa’s key issues. After indirectly complaining against Zuma’s anti-Moroccan stands and her bias in supporting the Polisario separatists […]
Organisers of the Algiers Cinema international festival have decided to dedicate the seventh edition of the festival to the late Cuban national hero Fidel Castro passed away Friday at the age of 90. “This edition is taking place in the backdrop of a sad context for us which is the death of Fidel Castro. We […]