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A Congress bipartisan group sent a letter Thursday to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, raising concerns over Algeria’s growing ties with Russia and calling for sanctions against officials in the Algerian regime for arms deals with Moscow. The call by the bipartisan group, led by Congresswoman Lisa McClain, follows a similar call from Senator […]
Algeria’s military rulers and their civilian façade continue their theft of cultural heritage of their neighbors, the latest episode was the appropriation of Moroccan mosaic in their national squad outfit which triggered an immediate condemnation from Morocco’s cultural ministry demanding Adidas to withdraw the Tshirts or risk a lawsuit. Morocco’s culture ministry lawyer Mourad El […]
Algerian authorities have asked the Caritas charity to end all its activities in the country, a decision which the Catholic church said will enter into force on October 1. The closure of Caritas is a new authoritarian move taken by the Algerian military regime which turned the country into a big prison preventing international charities […]
Algeria has managed to vassalize its cash-strapped neighbor, Tunisia, which is now mimicking its larger neighbor including on human rights violations and oppression. Human Rights Watch has released on Sept 26 a report shedding light on the ordeal of Slimane Bouhafs, a Kabyle refugee registered with UNHCR who was kidnapped in August 2021 by Algerian […]
Morocco has once again, in the UN General Assembly, held Algeria responsible for the perpetuation of the conflict in the Sahara territory and for the fate of thousands of Sahraouis living in precarious conditions in the Polisario-run camps in southern-Western Algeria. In response to an address by Algeria’s foreign minister Ramtane Lamamra in which he […]
MEP Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero on Monday blasted “the repeated violation” by Algeria of its trade commitments to Spain and the European Union, calling this attitude “unacceptable.” “‘It is clear that we have a trade problem with Algeria. And not only Spain,” tweeted the Spanish MEP of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats at the European […]
On the High Instructions of King Mohammed VI, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, received this Tuesday, September 27, 2022, the Algerian Minister of Justice, Abderrachid Tebbi, emissary of President Abdelmajid Tebboune, to the King. The emissary of the Algerian president handed over to Bourita the letter of invitation addressed to King Mohammed […]
The ruling of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, issued on September 22, is a desperate attempt by Algeria and the Polisario to involve all the institutions of the African Union in the Sahara issue, while the return of Morocco to the Continental Organization is a supreme decision of the African Heads of […]
As the Algerian regime continues to push its Polisario puppet chasing an elusive separatist dream, former Spanish Defense minister and former chief of intelligence services, José Bono, gave them a harsh reality check, affirming that the referendum option has been abandoned definitively by the UN Security Council. In his opening address at the 1st International […]
The Algerian regime and its puppet, the polisario front, have been slammed for the massive violations of human rights, humanitarian atrocities and summary executions committed in the Tindouf camps against the background of the Sahara conflict. The harsh criticism was voiced during a symposium held in Geneva on the sidelines of the 51st session of […]