First Independent Mena Newspaper
Under pressure exerted by the Algerian military junta, Tunisian president Kais Saed made on Friday a hostile and provocative act against Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over its Sahara. He rolled out the red carpet to Polisario chief Brahim Ghali, an enemy of Morocco, a war criminal wanted by European justice from crimes committed against […]
The EU reaffirmed its position in support of a fair, lasting, political and mutually acceptable solution to the Sahara issue and welcomed Morocco’s “credible” efforts to that end. The European Union (EU) remains committed to its position on the Moroccan Sahara dispute, recalls loud and clear that it takes “positive note of the serious and […]
More than 37 people died and over 200 others were injured due to dozens of wildfires in Algeria’s east, triggering backlash at a government that failed to acquire the necessary means to extinguish forest fires. The tragedy is a déjà-vu in a country where over 200 people, mostly in the restive Kabylie region, lost their […]
After armed clashes between militiamen loyal to former defense minister and those faithful to current ailing Polisario leader Brahim Ghali, a recent audio leak shows the magnitude of divisions and despair within the Polisario-run camps of Tindouf over Algeria’s manipulation of the separatist militia. In the leaked audio message to his followers, Bachir Mustafa Sayed, […]
The Tindouf camps, where thousands are held against their will by the Algeria-backed polisario militias, have once again been the scene of violent infighting between clans vying for power in an area where Algeria seems to have relegated all authority to militiamen. As Polisario leader Brahim Ghali was flown to South Africa for medical treatment […]
The Poliario leadership continue to trade in the suffering of the Sahrawis they are holding hostage in the Tindouf camps in south western Algeria. This time, it is the turn of the foreign representative of the Algeria-backed militia who has just opened a second private hospital in Ecuador adding to a clinic he already owns […]
Polisario leaders have a long history of embezzlement in connivance with the corrupt and feckless Algerian Generals who are using the separatist group in their international money-laundering operations. Several foreign independent bodies including the European Anti-Fraud Office have confirmed and denounced the systematic diversion of humanitarian aid by Polisario leaders who accumulated huge wealth. They […]
Sahrawi activists exposed, on Monday in the European Parliament in Brussels, the false propaganda trumpeted by the Algeria-backed polisario separatists on Morocco’s southern provinces, highlighting the economic, social, cultural and human rights achievements accomplished in Moroccan Sahara. Invited by MEPs, Moroccan civil society activists informed the European Parliament on the real situation of human rights […]
As the recruitment and exploitation of children in crises and political conflicts is a war crime under international humanitarian law. As the recruitment and exploitation of children in conflicts is a violation of the essence of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and its annexed protocols and it requires no impunity. As […]
In a context of increasing repression of peaceful demonstrations by the Algerian security forces, hundreds of people have been arbitrarily arrested since the beginning of the peaceful movement Al hirak, including many human rights defenders who try to expose corruption and frauds in Algeria. This anti-corruption activism exposes human rights defenders to years of prison […]