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Geneva-based non-governmental organization, Alkarama, has addressed a correspondence to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, requesting its intervention with the Algerian authorities regarding the young activist Abdelhamid Bouziza, who forcibly disappeared since October 19. Abdelhamid Bouziza, 25 is a peaceful movement activist and social media blogger who had expressed concern about […]
The 14th edition of MEDays, an international forum organized by the Amadeus Institute in Tangier November 2 to 5, has called on Algeria to join the roundtables process as recommended by resolution 2654 of the UN Security Council with a view to ending the conflict over the Moroccan Sahara. This urgent appeal to the Algerian […]
Algeria has forced over 60 refugees from Syria and Palestine from Oran to the desert border of Niger where they were abandoned to their fate, Syrian media reported. This constitutes a clearcut case of refoulement which is banned under the Geneva convention, according to human rights NGOs, which deplore the media blackout regarding the fate […]
Algeria, the host of the Arab League summit to take place on Nov 2, has to brace for an Arab League resolution condemning Iran’s destabilizing acts in the east and the west of the Arab world. A motion in this regard was put forward by Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita who proposed the inclusion […]
The Moroccan delegation taking part at a preparatory meeting of the Arab Summit in Algiers has condemned in the strongest terms the use by an Algerian TV station of a map of the Arab World other than the one accredited by the Arab League. The Moroccan delegation made it clear during the preparatory meeting […]
The latest UN Security Council resolution on the Sahara dealt another blow to Algeria which took two days to react with a timid statement stating its usual pro-separatist stands and an anachronism verging on illusions to see the UN return to unfeasible referendum option. The Algerian foreign ministry issued its statement rejecting the UN resolution […]
Several Members of the European Parliament from the European People’s Party have expressed concern over the joint military maneuvers conducted by Russia and Algeria in the Mediterranean. The MEPs deem this collaboration “extremely worrying not only for peace and security, but also for the interests of the West and the European Union.” The European People’s […]
The Algerian regime and its protégé, the Polisario front, were dealt a blow this Thursday at the UN headquarters in New York, when the Security Council adopted a new resolution on the Sahara which shattered the expectations of the opponents of Morocco’s territorial integrity. In its resolution 2654 on the Sahara issue, adopted by 13 […]
Algeria has announced painful reforms including subsidies cuts on which the social peace hinges to try to save its crumbling finances, but all the reforms have vanished as the oil and gas bonanza offer the regime space to gain time and delay reforms as the country heads straight to economic collapse. Before the Russia-Ukraine war […]
The European Union needs to act to counter the terrorist threat posed by the polisario separatist militia, which operates in the neighborhood of Europe, warned Member of the European Parliament Tomáš Zdechovský. The EU must make people understand the danger posed by certain military groups that adopt a terrorist doctrine, which threaten the values of […]