First Independent Mena Newspaper
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 […]
Algerian authorities handed a one-year jail sentence to a 21-year-old Tunisian tourist after she complained on social media over harassment. In her social media post, Donia Guenni complained of harassment by a group of Algerian men and denounced the ill-treatment of the Algerian police. Her lawyer, said she was tried swiftly and sentenced to a […]
Algeria’s president Tebboune downplayed his failure to join the BRICS, which admitted other African and Asian countries as new members. Tebboune spoke with certainty two years ago promising his people to join the BRICS group, much to his disappointment when the grouping admitted Egypt and Ethiopia along with Iran the UAE and Saudi Arabic, but […]
Algeria’s president had nothing but words to attack the transatlantic pipeline that will connect Nigeria to Morocco, benefiting 13 other West African states. Speaking at an interview with sycophant state-sponsored media, Tebboune said the trans-Saharian pipeline was an “economic project” that would connect Nigeria to Algeria to “serve Europe.” Tebboune made the comment amid worsening […]
Southern Algeria and northern Nigeria continue to struggle to contain a cholera outbreak amid floods and insecurity. In Algeria’s south, cholera and diphtheria spread among a late reaction from health authorities leading to over 23 deaths. Videos shared on social media showed congested hospitals in the impoverished Algerian south with patients lying on the ground […]
The 2024 report submitted lately to the UN Security Council by UN Chief Antonio Guterres highlights the growing international support for Morocco’s autonomy plan under the Kingdom’s sovereignty, affirms that Algeria is a party to the Sahara conflict, and denounces Polisario obstruction of MINURSO mission. In his new report to the Security Council, expected to […]