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Morocco holds Algeria responsible for violations of thousands of people held by Polisario militias

Morocco alerted once again to the enduring plight of thousands of Sahraouis held against their will in the Tinfoud camps by the Polisario militias and urged Algeria to allow a head-count of this population. Speaking to the UN General Assembly, Morocco’s Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch recalled that Algeria has defied UN Security Council resolutions urging […]

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Algeria expels over 650 migrants to Northern Niger

More than 650 migrants from a dozen African countries have arrived in northern Niger after being expelled by Algeria, local authorities said Tuesday. Some 669 returnees from Algeria, including two Nigeriens, and 667 West and Central African nationals arrived on foot on September 17 in Assamaka, the Nigerien town closest to the Algerian border, after […]

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International media confirm Tunisia’s news status as Algeria’s satellite state

President Kais Saied of Tunisia has led his country to become a vassal state of its autocratic neighbor Algeria, a status that is now taken as a fact by international media. To mention but a few, two leading publications in Europe and the US have told the story of Tunisia’s fall from a model of […]

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HCHR: United States, several NGOs lambast Algeria for massive human rights abuses

The American delegation to the ongoing 51st session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva and several participating NGOs have pilloried Algeria for the extremely worrying situation of human rights in the country, the massive violations of the rights of the populations sequestered in the Tindouf camps and the refusal of the Algerian regime to […]

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Support for Polisario, anti-Israel rhetoric further isolates Algeria in Arab region- The National Interest writes

Algeria has isolated itself in the Arab and African environment due to its positions in support of the polisario separatists and its anti-semitic stands, US media the National Interest wrote. “Some observers worry that Algeria could become increasingly isolated as more and more Arab countries normalize with Israel and line up against Iran, with whom […]

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Algerian regime in disarray after media reports on King’s attendance of Arab summit

Both Jeune Afrique and Charq Al Awsat announced that King Mohammed VI of Morocco will attend the Arab summit, a news that trapped an Algerian regime who made hostility to Morocco its doctrine. Although there is no official confirmation yet from the Royal palace on who will attend the summit, the news in itself has […]

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UNHRC: Washington decries human rights violations in Algeria

The United States has slammed in Geneva the serious human rights violations committed by Algerian authorities against civilians and pro-democracy activists. Addressing the ongoing 51st Session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the U.S. Delegate denounced the growing restrictions imposed on freedom of expression, assembly and association. The Algerian regime uses new penal code […]

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Algeria detains reporter for investigating date exports

In Algeria a news article or investigation on the problems facing the exports of dates could lead to jail. This was the case of Belkacem Houam, a reporter with Echourouk who was sent behind bars for a story on the export ban of Deglet Nour dates. He is facing charges of undermining public order and […]

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Algerian regime’s utter failure to impose its agenda on Arab Summit

The Algerian regime’s attempts to use the Arab League Summit to serve its own agenda have been crushed on the bulwark of solid vigilance of Arab states. Now, Algeria’s sole hope is to be able to hold the summit per se, to be able to use the event as a propaganda element to cover its […]

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Algeria’s hostility to Morocco spills over to stadiums

Moroccan kids taking part in an Arab soccer final have been attacked on the pitch by their Algerian counterparts joined by security forces and fans in a deplorable scene that not only violates sportsmanship but also shows that the propaganda and diatribes unleashed by Algerian media is now shaping action by the Algerian people against […]