First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Algerian government has been reshuffled bringing in officials from the parastatal and private sector to replace some prominent political figures. Among the eight replaced minsters are the finance, energy and interior ministers. Abderrahmane Benkhelfa will now serve as Finance Minister. Before his nomination, he was the General Delegate of the Association of Banks and […]
The Maghreb region is going through a critical situation because of the growing cross border security threats, including terrorism and organized crime, illegal immigration, drugs and arms smuggling, a situation which requires collective responses. The participants in the 33rd session of the follow-up committee of foreign ministers of the Arab Maghreb Union, convened in Rabat […]
Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal’s said his four-day official visit to China has ended with “satisfactory” results with feelings that it will lead to a “new impetus” in the ties between the two countries especially in the economic sector. Algeria wants to diversify its economy and is hoping that it could learn from the Chinese experience […]
The report of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) on the diversion of the international humanitarian assistance, mainly European, to the Algeria-based Tindouf camps that was made public last January is still making waves and influencing decision-making at the international scale. On Wednesday, the European Parliament adopted unanimously a resolution urging Algeria to allow the organization […]
A diplomatic row between Algiers and Nouakchott has erupted over an article published by Mauritanian e-journal Al-Bayan, alleging that Mauritania had complained to the U.N about Morocco flooding it with drugs. Mauritania, infuriated by the false news that could strain its ties with Morocco, immediately expelled the Chief adviser at the Algerian embassy Belkacem Cherouati […]
The Islamic State group has released a video showing its militants savagely beheading and shooting 30 Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya. This is the first time that ISIS, which gained a foothold in Libya, targets Ethiopia which has sent soldiers to Somalia to fight Al Shabab Islamist rebels within the frame of the African forces. […]
Tunisian Special Forces will be trained by Algerian army under an agreement signed lately between the two neighboring countries of the Maghreb, challenged by the terrorist groups. The two North-African countries also agreed to foster bilateral military cooperation to better control border security against arms traffickers and terrorists. Under the accord, Algeria pledged to train […]
At the opening ceremony of the two-day National Conference on External Trade taking place at the Palais des Nations in Algiers, Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said the drastic fall of oil prices gives “a valuable opportunity” to the county “to review the situation of its trade to radically and progressively end dependence on hydrocarbons.” Algeria’s […]
Algeria is trying to rally members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as well as non-members to work towards stopping the fall of oil prices. President Bouteflika has sent messages to more than 10 countries regarding the issue and Energy Minister Youcef Yousfi met with Angola’s Oil Minister Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos […]
Algeria has supplied Tunisia with weapons in the past as part of a security agreement between them but a source has claimed that the latest supply which took place on Thursday at a crossing point in the border town of Tebessa involved air-to-surface missiles. Although there has been no official statement about the security transactions […]