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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan U.S. government advisory body, has recommended maintaining Algeria on the U.S. Department of State’s Special Watch List for engaging in or tolerating severe religious freedom violations. In its 2022 annual report, the USCIRF, which monitors and reports on religious freedom abroad and makes policy recommendations […]
Algeria has reduced by 25% gas supplies to Spain, after the latter changed its stance to support Morocco’s Sahara autonomy plan, Spanish media said. The gas transiting through the Medgaz pipeline was down by a quarter since Spain edged closer to Morocco, confirming once more forecasts by analysts who had warned Spain of Algeria’s unreliability […]
A new scandal appears in the horizon for Algerian diplomacy after Maltese authorities aborted a mission to secretly repatriate Polisario officials, forcing an Algerian airlines plane to return empty, Algerian opposition media reported. “It seems that Maltese authorities had not given their go-ahead for the repatriation. Once it landed on Maltese soil, the crew of […]
The Tobruk-based Libyan House of Representatives has accused Algeria of “interference in Libya’s sovereign affairs” after the Algerian President declared support for Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, that the parliament replaced with Fathi Bashagha as the country’s interim leader. Yusuf al-Agouri, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, published a scathing statement on Saturday targeting what he […]
Algerian opponent and Hirak figure Karim Tabbou was arrested on Friday in Algiers, announced the National Committee for the Release of Detainees (CNLD). Coordinator of the Democratic and Social Union (UDS, not authorized in Algeria), Karim Tabbou was “arrested at home by the police,” the Committee said in a post on Facebook without giving any […]
The Algerian regime has fallen in its own trap when it unilaterally decided to shut down the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline (GME) to cut off the flow of gas to Morocco. However, the GME pipeline is used as of this week to supply Morocco with gas coming from Spain in reverse flow. “Morocco will be able […]
In a swift response to the statement made by the unpopular Algerian president Abdelmajid Tebboune criticizing Spanish support to Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara, the Spanish foreign ministry hits backs affirming that its stand on the Sahara is a “sovereign decision”. By recognizing the autonomy plan presented by Morocco as the “most serious, realistic […]
Political prisoner, Hakim Debazi, a peaceful activist and one of the most active militants of the Hirak in Algeria, died in the prison of Kolea in the wilaya of Tipaza (36 km west of Algiers), according to the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH), which calls for the opening of an investigation. […]
The UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, is expected to undertake a second tour in the region for talks with the parties involved in the Sahara dispute. De Mistura made the announcement Wednesday following the semi-annual closed-door consultations meeting on the Sahara issuea. According to press reports, he said the […]
Algeria, faithful to its visceral hatred towards Morocco, has tried again Thursday to obstruct the final statement adopted by the Arab League Ministerial Committee for International Action against Illegal Israeli Policies and Measures in Occupied Al-Quds, convened Thursday in Amman. After Algeria hampered the adoption of a statement by the Arab group at the United […]