First Independent Mena Newspaper
New reports showed that the Swiss tourist who was murdered earlier this month had her throat slit before her children in front of a café in southern Algeria. The murderer shouted “long live Palestine” as he killed the Swiss tourist in the desert city of Djanett, where Algeria aspired to promote tourism without offering the […]
The Algerian authorities are struggling to hide their failure to provide a safe and secure environment to their few incoming tourists as a female Swiss tourist was brutally slaughtered lately in the Southeastern Algerian city of Djanet while she was sitting at a café terrace. The identity of the victim, who was part of a […]
The investigation by Spanish authorities reveals the involvement of an Algerian intelligence service in the attempted kidnapping of journalist and writer Hichem Aboud. This information has emerged following his dramatic rescue by the Guardia Civil, an operation described as a “miracle” by sources close to the case. According to initial findings, this incident resembles a […]
Algeria is about to approve the largest budget in its history and in Africa, most of it dedicated to maintain cash-handouts on which its social peace depends and increase spending on the army. Some 125 billion dollars will be budgeted by the government this year, as the country lacks any significant investment or economic project […]
Algeria is stuck in a logic of permanent conflict and its diplomacy suffers from a “schizophrenic pathology”, said Morocco’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, about the North African country’s obsession with the Sahara issue. Responding before the 4th Committee of the UN General Assembly to the attacks of his Algerian counterpart, Amar […]
Morocco’s permanent mission pointed out during the 75th session of the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which concluded its works in Geneva on Friday, that the situation in Tindouf camps in Algeria contradicts the UNHCR’s general mandate. The mission, while reiterating its commitment to the noble humanitarian mandate entrusted to this […]
After about five decades of nurturing a separatist chimera in the Sahara territory, Algeria is beating the drums of war again deploying troops on the Moroccan borders as the Sahara issue nears a final close under Moroccan sovereignty. International media has been warning of an Algerian attempt to end the state of “low intensity” war […]
Christian churches have been forced to close in Algeria amid a crackdown on religious freedom and a persecution of Christians across the country, said the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. In a recent report, the Commission recommended the US to put Algeria on a Special Watch List in view of the violations of religious […]
For decades, Algeria has played a tacit role in perpetuating the Sahara regional conflict until the military regime recycled itself in the form of a new military-civilian duo that made the dispute a matter of life and death for the Algerian state. Algeria hosted the Polisario group, who at first had no separatist agenda, following […]
Oil and gas dependent Algeria launched the first episode of its trade war against France by banning imports of French wheat. The decision comes amid worsening ties between Paris and Algiers. The Algerian military-held state criticizes France for its sovereign decision to back Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. In 2023, the bulk of Algeria’s exports […]