A BRICS currency replacing U.S dollar is a ‘ridiculous’ idea, says the top economist who named the group — especially in light of the fact that China and India are not able to even agree on BRICS membership expansion that will shape the organization’s future. The BRICS group has revealed its internal divisions, with India […]
Tag: Algeria
Algerian diplomacy’s inconsistencies reach absurd level
The civilian façade of the military regime in Algeria or the government led by Tebboune has reached an absurd level doubling down on inconsistencies, inflated figures, and fake news. The most recent was Algeria’s foreign minister welcoming the US position on the Sahara issue. Algeria’s newly appointed foreign minister, Ahmed Attaf, has welcomed the US […]
Tuaregs brace for a return to arms as tension simmers in Sahel
The new Sahel nation states have obviously failed to embrace diversity and integrate the Tuareg people whose leaders in Mali and Niger consider a return to the armed struggle against the centralized states. The Tuareg are a nomadic Amazigh people scattered in the greater Sahara notably in what is now southern Algeria and Libya to […]
Niger: Algeria fears Morocco’s influence could be strengthened by ECOWAS military operation
The Algerian regime has openly expressed its firm opposition to any military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) against the putschists who toppled elected President Mohamed Bazoum. Algeria says it opposes any military operation in Niamey for security reasons due to the fragile and instable situation in the Sahel. But in […]
Algiers accuses UAE of hostile acts without offering evidence
Algeria’s conspiracy theorists continue on a ridiculous trajectory taking aim this time at the UAE, whom they accused of hostile acts including supplying spy technology to Morocco and working together with Israel in the region. The Algerian military junta used Al khabar newspaper as a mouthpiece this time to spread the uncorroborated accusation against Abu […]
Algeria’s diplomacy of empty tours
Like his predecessor, the civilian façade of Algeria’s military regime, Abdelmejid Tebboune has embarked on a series of tours in European, Arab and Asian capitals but returned empty-handed. Tebboune’s most recent visit was to China on which he pinned hope to win support for his regime’s fantasy to join the BRICS. China said it welcomed […]
Wildfires kill over 34 in Algeria as regime drags feet on buying waterbombers
The deadly wildfires in Algeria left 34 people dead in a new episode of regime failure to prepare ahead by procuring enough firefighting aircrafts. The interior ministry said more than 1500 people were evacuated from their homes in the affected coastal areas as the flames reached urban centers in Bejaia and the Kabylie region. While […]
International center lambasts systematic enrollment of child soldiers in Tindouf
The Dakhla-based International Center for Research on the Prevention of Child Soldiers has strongly condemned the systematic military enrollment recruitment of children in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps in Algeria and the systematic violation of these children’s rights. The Center said in a statement that it remains “deeply concerned about the continued systematic recruitment” of child […]
Africa/Football: Algeria fails to win seat at CAF executive committee, rulers’ isolation deepening
The Algerian regime has suffered a humiliating setback at the Confederation of African football (CAF), after its representative failed to win a seat at the Executive Committee of the African football governing body. During CAF’s General Assembly convening in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, the majority of CAF administrators voted Thursday for the delegate of Libya as […]
Algeria’s diplomatic fiasco under Attaf
Algeria’s impulsive military-guided diplomacy has sown wind and reaped whirlwind. The newly appointed foreign minister Ahmed Attaf has returned empty handed from Germany and Serbia to mention but a few trips in which he failed to win support for the separatist polisario front. Soon after his visit to Germany and Serbia where he met their […]









