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At least three people were killed and several others were wounded on Monday, June 15 in Tinzaouatine, province of Tamanrasset, by elements of the Algerian gendarmerie during a demonstration, reported France-based website Sahel Intelligence. The demonstration was staged to protest the daily water quotas imposed on the population. The security forces intervened brutally to quell […]
The UN Refugee Agency has voiced deep concern over the detention by the Algerian authorities of 120 refugees from Syria, Yemen and Palestine at the Tamanrasset Centre (southern Algeria) and their transfer to an area near the Guezzam border. UNHCR says it is concerned about the safety of these vulnerable individuals registered as refugees who […]
Amnesty International urged Algeria to adopt a law on asylum and fight against the prevailing racism against Sub-Saharans, after several Algerian officials uttered racist statements against Sub-Saharans coupled with mass summary deportations of several African migrants, including asylum seekers. “The authorities should decriminalize irregular immigration,” Amnesty’s Algeria office said in a statement on Sunday. The […]
Morocco sent emergency humanitarian aid to the Sub-Saharan migrants who were cruelly deported by Algerian authorities and abandoned in the desert in northern Niger. The aid was sent upon directives from King Mohammed VI to help the migrants who were abandoned by Algerian authorities in northern Niger in harsh conditions. This humanitarian gesture is in […]
International rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, called on Algeria to honor its commitments under the 1951 Geneva convention and to bring to a halt all mass deportations of Sub Sharan migrants. The call was expressed in a statement released Friday after Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1400 sub-Saharan migrants in Algiers and deported them […]
Algeria has started sending home thousands of Sub-Saharan migrants and asylum seekers living and working in the North African country for years. Waves of migrants from Niger have been already sent home. The last bash of Nigeriens was expected to arrive early this week-end, Jeune Afrique reports quoting Niger’s consul general in the Algerian city […]
The Algerian government has reportedly reached in 2012 a secret agreement with Algerian terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar to attack Moroccan interests in the Sahara, reveals a confidential e-mail of former US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, made public by Wikileaks on Thursday “According to sources with access to the Algerian DGSE, the Bouteflika government reached a […]
An Algerian, allegedly linked to the November 13 attacks in Paris has been arrested and placed in detention at Akbou, near Béjaïa. The man appeared before Akbou court after he was summoned by the judge who put him in detention on February 23. According to Algerian local daily “Le Soir d’Algérie,” the suspect is Zouhir […]
Eleven people, including doctors and patients, were killed in a Libyan military crash which occurred Friday a field near Grombalia, about 40km south of the Tunisian capital. The crash of Russian-made Antonov aircraft is due apparently to engine failure. The whole plane was completely burnt out, said Tunisian emergency services. According to Libyan media, Sheikh […]
The Algerian government is planning to invest over $ 24 billion between 2012 and 2016 to enhance electricity production and distribution in the North African country experiencing power shortage and outages that have affected lately business and households. Many Algerians were angry over the frequently power cuts in the oil & natural gas producing country. […]