First Independent Mena Newspaper
In recent days, thousands of Algerian migrants arrived in Spanish coasts after risking their lives through tumultuous waters to escape hardship in their country. No less than 10,000 Algerians embarked to Spain in September alone compared to 11,000 in the whole year of 2020. This sets a new record that reflects the worrying conditions suffered […]
Algeria’s dim reality is that it has an endemic reliance on gas and oil for over 95% of its exports as well as for generous subsidies to maintain social peace. But will Algeria be able to continue to export gas and oil amid a rise in domestic consumption? This is the scenario that the military […]
The Algerian military regime which has been ruling behind a thin civilian curtain has long used its gas and oil money to buy social peace and quell dissent. But, with the fall in oil prices and the depletion of state coffers, Algerian citizens felt the pain of a dwindling purchasing power which augurs ill for […]
The “Independent Commission for Human Rights” and “Africa Culture International” organized in Geneva on Wednesday September 22, a conference on “Violations of human rights in Tindouf Camps” on the sidelines of the ongoing 48th session of the Human Rights Council. Several international human rights activists and representatives of civil society took part in the conference […]
Former Spanish foreign minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya will stand before a judge in Zaragoza for her role in violating Spanish and Schengen laws by allowing the entrance of a Polisario leader in secrecy in an attempt to help the Algerian proxy evade Spanish justice. The military officials in charge of allowing flights into the airport […]
Algeria’s former president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, passed away last week, leaving his country at the mercy of a military junta that did little to relieve the country from oil and gas curse. Bouteflika took power in 1999 on the back of promises to put an end to a deadly civil war that took the lives of […]
The Socialist Forces Front (FFS), the oldest opposition party in Algeria, has denounced “the systematic recourse to security management of state affairs”. The party has voiced “serious concern” over the “return of arbitrary arrests”, saying the systematic recourse to the security management of state affairs aims to “crush popular aspirations to freedom, dignity and social […]
King Mohammed VI has sent a message of condolences and compassion to the Algerian Head of State following the demise of the former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. In his message, King Mohammed VI said he learned the news of the death of Bouteflika with “deep sorrow and deep emotion,” and expressed in these painful circumstances to […]
With the announcement of the killing by French forces of the most wanted terrorist in West Africa Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, the international media established the link with the Polisario, underlining the proven collusion between this group of mercenaries and terrorism in the Sahel. Recalling the jihadist operations carried out by Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, the […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an American NGO which defends press freedom, has called on Algerian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release reporter Mohamed Mouloudj and ensure that members of the press can work in the country without fear of imprisonment. Mouloudj, who works for local independent newspaper Liberté, is charged with “spreading false […]