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Algeria has ordered the resumption of trade with Spain as it installs trade curbs with France in retaliation for Paris support for Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara territory. The trade wars with European powerhouses reflects Algeria’s standing as the main adversary of Morocco on the Sahara issue, in which Algiers has used the Polisario proxies […]
Moscow has excluded the Algeria-backed Polisario separatists from participating in the first ministerial conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, dealing another humiliating blow to the ruling Algerian junta. Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita is representing the Kingdom in the two-day event which opened Saturday in the city of Sochi. The conference is attended by government […]
The UK government has announced dozens of new sanctions against Russia, targeting three private mercenary groups in Africa, linked to the Kremlin, and eleven people involved in the Ukraine war and associated with a nerve agent attack on British soil. “Today’s action disrupts the supply of vital equipment for Putin’s war machine and bears down […]
Algeria celebrates the 70th anniversary of its revolution against the backdrop of a series of diplomatic setbacks that left the country in a state of diplomatic isolation. The celebrations this year coincide with a debacle in the security council in a series of diplomatic blows and tension with almost all neighbors, save cash-strapped Tunisia. UN […]
Royal Moroccan Navy is taking part in the multinational maritime exercise “Phoenix Express 24” sponsored by U.S. Africa Command and executed by the U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa (NAVAF). The exercise, organized in the Tunisian waters November 4 to 15, brings together 1,100 maritime forces and observers from 12 countries including Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, […]
The Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, stressed in New York that the Algerian proposal for the partition of the Moroccan Sahara is a usual outlet for its diplomatic setbacks. During a press briefing following the adoption by the Security Council of the resolution on the Sahara, Hilale reacted to the […]
The lunatic Algerian regime has suffered another diplomatic setback at the UN Security Council after the United States and France ditched a proposal submitted by its delegate to UN for extending MINURSO mandate to include human rights monitoring. Algeria uses constantly its non-permanent seat at UN Security Council to undermine Morocco’s territorial integrity, derailing UN […]
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global financial crime watchdog, has included Algeria in the list of money laundering & terrorism financing countries. The FATF has made the decision during its plenary meeting held lately in Paris with the participation of delegates from the FATF’s Global Network of over 200 jurisdictions and observers from […]
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 […]