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Human rights activists have launched an urgent appeal on the United Nations to lift the blockade on the Tindouf camps in southwestern Algeria and allow access to the camps, which are witnessing an unprecedented deterioration of human rights conditions, as reported by several international organizations. On the sidelines of the 56th session of the Human […]
French police has let go one of the outspoken leaders of the Kabyle independence movement, known as MAK, wanted by Algiers. Aksel Bellabaci has been interrogated by the French police in Paris following an arrest warrant filed by Algeria, which accuses the Kabyle activist of igniting fires in Kabyle region in 2021. The failure to […]
Algeria’s president Abdelmadjid Tebboune was invited to the latest G7 summit held in Italy due to the pressure exerted by French President Emmanuel Macron, says a London-based think-tank in its latest report. If, as expected, French party Rassemblement National (RN) wins upcoming snap parliamentary elections and takes control of the government, it will almost certainly […]
A group of Canadian nationals originating from the restive and independence seeking Kabylie complained of harassment by Algerian intelligence and consular services in the country, Radio Canada reported. Kabylie is an Amazigh speaking breakaway region in northern Algeria which has a government in exile led by Ferhat Mhenni. Members of the region’s independence movement, known […]
Trade continues to steeply decline between the two Maghreb heavyweights, Morocco and Algeria. Trade between the two nations dropped to just 130 million dollars last year, from 690 million dollars in 2021, which was also a small figure considering the potential of the two countries. The very sparse trade- already reeling due to Algeria’s support […]
Violent protests resumed in Algeria’s southwestern city of Tiaret where taps have been dry for days including during Eid celebrations, amid total blackout from local media. First reported by AP, AFP has also zoomed in on the tensions in Tiaret where the population blocked streets and torched tires to express their anger at the government […]
Polisario chief Brahim Ghali, who received in 2001 life-saving medical treatment in Spain, had left the European country without paying racked up bills of 45,658 euros for intensive care, medications, and services provided during his 44-day stay in hospital. After contracting Covid-19, Head of the Polisario armed militia was smuggled into Spain by the Algerian […]
Algeria’s desperate resort to three mercenaries, traitors to their country, as so-called petitioners to talk not about the Moroccan Sahara, but to call for violence and attack the sacred institutions of the Kingdom, reflects the very failure of the Algerian regime’s separatist scheme in Morocco. The remarks were made by Morocco’s permanent representative to the […]
Algeria’s diplomacy refuses to look in the mirror as it continues to suffer setbacks in support of a Polisario separatist militia that has become a real liability for the military rulers in Algiers. Algeria’s erratic diplomacy has reaped but defeats as the number of Polisario supporters has diminished to be limited to a handful of […]
Several UN petitioners have praised the growing international support for Morocco’s autonomy plan offered for the Sahara under its sovereignty, highlighted the impressive socioeconomic development in the Sahara and denounced the human rights violations in Tindouf camps and the Algerian regime anti-Moroccan pathological obsession. Addressing the annual session of the United Nations C-24 convening in […]