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President Tebboune bans Algerian companies from dealing with Moroccan peers

Algeria’s president Tebboune ordered the government as well as public and private companies to refrain from doing business with what he called “foreign entities”, targeting in particular Moroccan operators. Blinded by hostility to everything Moroccan, Algeria’s new ailing president Tebboune is desperately seeking to distract the Algerian people from the worsening economic and social crisis […]

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Sahara-Algeria-Italia: Duplicitous Algerian rulers make another diplomatic blunder

Through high cunning and deceptive diplomacy, the Algerian rulers, who are facing unprecedented popular pro-democracy protests, are desperately trying to outwit the international community but to no avail.   Their obsession with the Sahara issue and pathological hatred for Morocco make them often fatally snared as they constantly attempt to frame foreign leaders to gain […]

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Men in uniform protest in Algeria’s streets as crisis worsens

As civilian and peaceful pro-democracy hirak protest gain traction, Algeria’s fire fighters joined the wave of dissent and resentment against an inefficient government that acts as a curtain for a corrupt military regime holding the country with an iron fist. Hundreds of firefighters in their uniform took to the street to demand better wages and […]

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Spain-Polisario Collusion: Madrid’s ambiguous explanations, its double game will not work

There is no room for ambiguity, doubts or uncertainty in relations between Morocco and Spain, two neighbors and strategic partners which share common history and growing economic interests. Rabat has always been crystal-clear in its stand and refused to support Catalonian separatists who were seeking in 2017 to set up a breakaway state in the […]

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Algeria’s APS news agency needs an ethics and geography lesson

Blinded by an endemic hostility to Morocco’s territorial integrity, Algeria’s official news agency has hit a new low conflating the Egyptian Western Sahara/desert with Morocco’s southern provinces. The Algerian-regime’s official mouthpiece reported on May 3 that two Egyptian firms plan to invest 1 billion dollars in oil projects in Western Sahara. But because of their […]

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Wanted Polisario chief summoned by Spanish Court over torture and Kidnapping charges

The Polisario leader Brahim Ghali, who is currently admitted in a hospital in Logrono in Spain, has been summoned to appear before a Spanish court over torture and kidnapping charges, one of his victims told MAP on Monday.   This summons, which takes place following a complaint filed by this victim, Fadel Breika, was also […]

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Algeria sacrifices its relations with the US to nail Israel, defend Iran

Algeria, deeply disheartened by the latest news implying that the new US administration of President Joe Biden, will not reverse the decision made by its predecessor regarding the recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara, has mobilized the pro-regime media to nail the USA and its ally Israel, and to defend Iran.   In a […]

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Indignation at the European Parliament over Spain’s decision to allow in a wanted criminal

The hospitalization in Spain of the leader of the Polisario, Brahim Ghali, wanted for war crimes and serious human rights violations, has sparked a first reaction of condemnation and rejection in the European Parliament.   The European deputy Attila Ara-Kovacs spoke out against the attitude of Spain to host on its soil a notorious criminal. […]

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US-Algeria-Sahara: Blinken exposes Boukadoum’s misleading & tortuous account

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Algerian FM Sabri Boukadoum had on Thursday, for the first time, a telephone conversation, under the Biden Administration, but the two top diplomats gave different accounts of their talks, leaving many scratching their heads. In his posted tweet, Boukadoum said Western Sahara was discussed, but Secretary Blinken made […]

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Spain, Algeria caught in act of forgery

Ghali’s hospitalization in Spain under a false identity is an embarrassing intelligence failure for Spain and Algeria and a breakthrough for Morocco. Ghali entered Spain on board an Algerian airplane using an Algerian passport and a false identity putting to the test the Moroccan-Spanish partnership and cooperation. Spain and Algeria had agreed at the highest […]