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Moroccan and European Union officials have welcomed the ruling announced this Wednesday by the European court, which rejected the appeal lodged by the Algeria-backed Polisario separatists, challenging the EU-Morocco agriculture accord. Last April, the European court cancelled its former verdict Read more
Morocco has sent an emergency humanitarian assistance to hundreds of sub-Saharan African nationals deported by Algerian authorities to Niger in violation of international humanitarian laws and conventions. As soon as King Mohammed VI heard the news of the sufferings and Read more
Algerian and UN veteran diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi has urged both his country and Morocco to leave the Western Sahara issue aside and work to reopen their land borders and normalize commercial activities through the borders for the benefit of the Read more
Algerian journalist Mohamed Tamalt has died after staging a hunger strike in protest against a two-year jail term sentence he was handed for offending Algeria’s president in a poem posted online. The news of the death the Algerian journalist prompted Read more
As the media is awash with reports on summary deportations in Algeria, Morocco stands out once again setting the example with the launch of the second phase of its genuine solidarity-based policy regarding sub-Saharan migrants, a ground breaking experience of Read more
Transition from centrally planned economy to free market is not easy as the Algerian authorities must have realized this week when they saw their African Business forum crumbling before their eyes. They must have felt upset and terribly humiliated to Read more
Algeria’s social cohesion seems on the brink of collapse as the country braces for imposing austerity measures including taxes and a lift on subsidies in response to the plunge in oil prices which have seriously diminished the country’s revenues. As Read more
Resentment is growing against Algerian authorities which have so far managed this burgeoning discontent with a stick-and-carrot policy that has kept a tenuous peace but not addressed underlying issues, warns International Crisis Group. Since 2013, the politically marginal but economically Read more
The Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Abou El Gheit, expressed support for the decision taken by nine Arab countries to leave the Arab-African Summit in Malabo. Nine countries have withdrew from the summit because of the presence of Read more
The lower Algerian parliament has approved the budget bill for 2017 but members of the opposition party boycotted the vote with some branding posters reading “Starving the people” and “Undermining the social nature of the state” to protest against the Read more