First Independent Mena Newspaper
One day ahead of Algeria’s presidential election, few people are expected to cast their ballot in an election in which Tebboune, the civilian façade of the military regime, is seeking re-election. On the back of worsening economic conditions marked by double digit inflation, import restrictions leading to shortages of basic goods and endemic unemployment, turnout […]
Mali’s representative to the UN in New York has openly accused Algeria of backing terrorist and separatist groups, in response to an Algerian representative’s statement accusing Mali of using drones against civilians. Mali, backed by Russia, has been battling Tuareg Azawad rebels who have turned more towards Algeria in recent months. Speaking at a UN […]
The Algerian regime has suffered another humiliating diplomatic setback in Beijing after the Chinese authorities refused the participation of the Polisario in the ongoing China-Africa cooperation forum. This is another slap on the face of ruling Algerian junta and their separatist militias in just few days after the Tokyo scandal which exposed their total failure, […]
The Algeria-backed Polisario militiamen have received nearly 40,000 voter registration cards believed to be used in manipulating the voter turnout of the presidential election scheduled for Sep.07, according to Sahrawis sequestered in Tindouf camps. During his campaign, President Abdelmajid Tebboune, who is seeking a second term, has reaffirmed his support for the Polisario which is […]
After silencing dissent, sending scores of political opponents to jail or forcing them into exile, the Algerian regime has stepped up its crackdown with the kidnapping of opposition figure and leader of Algeria’s communist party MDS Fethi Ghares. Ghares’ wife, Messaouda Chaballah, said that agents in plainclothes took him from his home, and that his […]
Lacking tangible achievements to use in his electoral campaign, President Tebboune uses imagination, telling a crowd of his supporters that Algeria has become the third largest economy in the world. The statement was met with euphoria by a crowd that has been brainwashed by a military regime using the media, education, co-option and mostly oppression. […]
Algeria continues its refoulement of Sub-Saharans abandoning over 2000 on August 1-12 on the borders with Niger in inhumane conditions, according to French radio RFI. The migrants were dumped in the desert in extreme heat about 15 kilometers away from Essamaka, where an IOM center is based. Aziz Chehou, coordinator of Alarm Phone Sahara (APS) […]
An Algerian diplomat has violently attacked a Moroccan counterpart at a meeting in Tokyo in preparation for the Tokyo Africa summit (TICAD). The Moroccan diplomat has protested to organizers the presence of “a country” nameplate that was laid on the table of the meeting by a polisario agent under an Algerian diplomatic cover. As he […]
Algeria, a country notorious for its inaccessibility to filmmakers and foreign journalists, has surprisingly allowed the shooting of Goat Life, an Indian movie that paints a very derogatory image of Saudi society. The film was banned by the Saudis because it tells a one-sided story depicting the Saudis as slave owners. While the movie has […]
On August 22, the Tunisian judiciary ordered the release of opposition politician Safi Saïd. Saïd, a former candidate in the 2014 and 2019 presidential elections who withdrew from this year’s race, had been arrested on August 20 for “illegally crossing the border into Algeria.” The 70-year-old writer and critic of the current Tunisian president was […]