First Independent Mena Newspaper
The opening of the Senegalese consulate in Dakhla was met with jubilation in Morocco and despair amid the Algerian regime. Speaking at a press conference in Dakhla on this occasion, Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita called on Algeria to uphold its role as the main party in the Sahara conflict and engage in direct negotiations […]
Algerian state media announced that the country signed a memorandum of understanding with a consortium of Chinese companies to exploit an iron ore in Tindouf, near the Moroccan border, in a move that violates an agreement signed with Morocco. The consortium, which includes China International Water & Electric Corp, Heyday Solar and the iron […]
Said Chetouane, a fifteen-year-old Algerian protester, said he was raped at a police station after taking part in a pro-democracy march, triggering a wave of solidarity by rights activists and the media. He was arrested in Algiers and was held for more than eight hours at a police station where he said he was subjected […]
The phenomenon of the enlistment of child soldiers by the Polisario under the supervision of the Algerian army, which was denounced by international organizations including the UN, was brought up before the European Parliament. A group of MEPs addressed a question on the issue to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has reportedly proposed the candidacy of former Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado as his personal envoy for the Sahara but the Algerian regime has given once again a cold shoulder to the new pick of the UN chief. The Algerian stand has been voiced Thursday by Al Watan newspaper, close […]
The US State Department has drawn a gloomy picture of the current situation of human rights in Algeria, denouncing all kinds of violations of public and civil liberties in the country. The State Department’s country report on human rights released this week, underlines the many violations of the most basic rights in Algeria, ranging […]
Algeria’s Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum was set back on his heels after a trip to Spain in which he failed to return with a statement backing his country’s support for separatism. Boukadoum was rather viewed as an official from a country whose nationals continue to top those who die while making the risky sea journey […]
Algerian authorities have left migrants die crammed in a bus after an accident near Niger where Algerian army intended to abandon them in the desert. Images on social media showed a torched bus, corpses and injured migrants as a convoy of 82 buses was carrying hundreds of migrants southwards. The migrants who died were buried […]
Algeria’s resource rich south is boiling! From Ghardaia to Ain Saleh and recently Ouargla people have taken to the streets, escalated protests demanding a fair redistribution of the country’s gas and oil wealth, much of it is located in their territories. Recent protests in Ouargla in particular were shocking. Images on Algerian social media showed […]
Experts, journalists and civil society activists continue to decry the appalling situation of the population sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps in Algeria. On Saturday, it was from Dakhla that Spanish political expert Pedro Ignacio Altamirano called for “the urgent opening of a humanitarian corridor” in order to allow the populations in captivity in […]