Algeria

According to sources close to the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune will visit Tizi-Ouzou, the capital of Greater Kabylia, on December 23. A high-risk visit

Africa Watch, Human Rights Defenders and the International Network for Human Rights and Development (RIDHOD) work to raise awareness of human rights culture and build the capacity of human rights defenders in the North Africa and Middle East regions

Thursday November 30, 2023, a date that the Mouvement pour l'Autodétermination de la Kabylie (MAK) will remember as one of the most important in its history

The former president of the MPS, a party in the service of the government, laments. He has just tasted what millions of Algerians have had to endure since the ISTN (ban on leaving the national territory) was introduced to turn Algeria into a huge prison

But what is wrong with the Egyptians? The Egyptians, who have never supported Algeria's position on the Polisario, are taking part in a military exercise called "Salam North Africa II", in which the armed wing of the Polisario also participates

With the inclusion of the Polisario in the "North African Capability Command Centre Exercise", Algeria is trying to destabilise the security of the Kingdom of Morocco

Over-invoicing has become a common practice for Algerian officials to embezzle colossal sums of money to fill their foreign bank accounts. Major General Mustapha Oudjani, the army's Comptroller General, has found another way. He almost succeeded if he had not been so voracious

Former Algerian Minister of Communications Mohamed Bousleimani, who was dismissed because of these events, confirmed that the attacks will continue because of the Emirati position on the Israel-Gaza conflict

Setback after setback, Algerian diplomacy is losing even the gains made before the advent of the 'new Algeria' of the Tebboune-Chengriha tandem. This is what has just happened in Mali with the liquidation of the reconciliation plan for Mali that was sponsored in 2015

Algeria will sit on the Council as a non-permanent member for two years from 2024

In the absence of clan war, it is generals seeking the blessing of the all-powerful chief of staff of the army who are engaged in a squabble which risks sending the boss of the gendarmerie to join his predecessors, the Menad generals. Nouba and Abderrahmane Arrar behind bars in Blida military prison

A few days before her visit to Algeria (November 26 to December 5), the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, has been contacted by the Amazigh World Congress (CMA), which has sent her an information note on the serious human rights situation in the country

This is the third Thursday in a row that the town of Larba Nath Irathen in Kabylia has gone on general strike. The strike has spread to other towns in reaction to the intimidations and threats made the day before by the authorities representing the military regime

Half a thousand entrepreneurs, investors and business people converge at the 1st Business Forum in Nouakchott, aimed at boosting the great transformation of the country at the western end of the Sahel

Deeply isolated on the international stage, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was delighted to welcome his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who came to Algiers for a few hours on Tuesday 21 November

In a letter to Josep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, MEPs "demand immediate action"

Major General Djebbar Mehenna, head of Algeria's General Directorate of Documentation and External Security, has been dealt a new blow. The network on which he based all his activities abroad has just been dismantled in France, with the arrest of several of its members

Karim Tabbou, one of the most prominent figures in the "Hirak" and the Algerian political opposition, has just been subjected to a new intimidation operation, after having been subjected to full-scale judicial and police harassment and still having the sword of Damocles hanging over his head, as he has been under judicial surveillance since 23 May

In an unprecedented move, the comptroller of the Algerian army is ousted on the sly. Normally, all appointments, transfers and dismissals of high-ranking officers are announced by the public and private media

According to Spanish sources, the Spanish government approved the appointment of Algeria's new ambassador to Madrid at the Council of Ministers on Tuesday 14 November. This is a further step in the process of resolving the diplomatic crisis between the two countries