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The crisis between Morocco and Algeria over the Sahara is “highly unlikely” to turn into an armed conflict at least in the immediate term, according to an analysis published by Geopolitical Intelligence Services (GIS), based in Liechtenstein. In an Op-Ed penned by Federica Saini Fasanotti, the author, who is a military historian, says tensions remain […]
Algeria was denounced again as the model of a state that evades its international duties and obligations, continues the confiscation of its citizens’ rights, smothers freedoms, ignores special procedures correspondences, and obstructs international agencies’ visits. These damning remarks were made at a symposium held this Wednesday at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, […]
Algeria’s energy minister Mohamed Argab, faithful to his regime’s policy of manipulating public opinion by telling half-truths, said his country’s hydrocarbons exports would increase 45% year-on-year to 50 billion dollars in 2022. The Algerian minister is comparing a year in which barrel prices rose to 123 dollars per barrel with 2021 in which the average […]
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 […]