First Independent Mena Newspaper
French authorities have rejected categorically an Algerian request for the extradition of Ferhat Mehenni, president of the provisional government of Kabylie and leader of the Movement for the self-determination of Kabylie, a movement set up in France to demand the territory’s independence. Mr. Mehenni lives currently in France where he has been benefitting from […]
Spain has refused to host again Polisario Chief Brahim Ghali who is suffering from cancer to avoid a new crisis with Rabat. According to several press reports, the head of the polisario-armed militia has been airlifted from the Ain Naadja military hospital in Algiers to Cuba, where he was admitted to intensive care following the […]
Tunisia has secretly handed over a prominent Algerian political refugee to Algiers few days after Algerian government arrested and is expected to extradite former Tunisian presidential candidate and business tycoon Nabil Karoui. Slimane Bouhafs, who had been living in Tunisia since August 2018 under the protection of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), […]
Morocco made Algeria experience the painful taste of supporting separatism in Morocco’s Sahara, reiterating that it should give self-determination to the Kabyle people before defending that principle elsewhere. Speaking at a UN event in St Dominican Republic, Ambassador Omar Hilale said that colonization ended in the Sahara region after Morocco retrieved the territory from Spain, […]
Algeria Sunday arrested Tunisian media mogul and leader of the second largest party in the Parliament, Nabil Karoui, for entering illegally in its territory, reports say. Nabil Karoui, according to media reports, was arrested in the Algerian border city of Tébessa alongside four other people including his brother and lawmaker Ghazi Karoui. They will appear […]
Djibouti and the Union of the Comors have joined the growing list of countries that have deplored Algeria’s decision to cut diplomatic relations with Morocco. Djibouti on Sunday expressed its “deep regret” over Algeria’s decision and called for settling the dispute through diplomatic channels. Djibouti’s foreign Ministry underlined in a statement that the “Republic of […]
Algeria announced that it will abandon a gas pipeline that supplied Spain via Morocco in a hostile act that followed the severance of diplomatic ties with Rabat. Moroccan officials rely on the pipeline to power two electricity plants in the north, but the decision would do little damage as the Kingdom foresaw the move. […]
Israel has described Algeria’s accusations of igniting fires in the Kabylie region as “unfounded” and “unworthy” of responding to, inviting Algeria to concentrate on resolving the problems it faces, in particular its serious economic problems, rather than seeking scapegoats to pin all its failures on. Algeria has accused Morocco and Israel of igniting wildfires […]
Algeria’s unilateral decision to severe diplomatic relations with Morocco has been deplored by several countries, international organizations and analysts as harmful to the interests and stability in North Africa. In this context, the French government had expressed its regret over the Algerian hasty decision, calling for restraint and a return to dialogue, urging Algeria to […]
Mired in conspiracy theories that hit an absurd level, Algeria has cut diplomatic ties with its only stable and prosperous neighbor, Morocco, further complicating its self-isolation in the region and the continent. The Algerian foreign minister Ramtane Lamamra ascribed in a diatribe all the woes and self-inflicted problems facing Algeria to Morocco, blaming the Kingdom […]