Algeria

Algeria’s former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika: towering figure, both in regional, international politics
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Algeria’s former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika: towering figure, both in regional, international politics

BY: Hana Saada PEJOURNAL - Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika died, late Friday, September 17th, 2021, at the age of 84 after enduring years of ill health, reported the Algerian Presidency of the Republic late Friday. To this end, the late Bouteflika was buried, Sunday, in the Martyrs’ Square in El-Alia cemetery. The late Bouteflika, a veteran of Algeria’s war for independence, had taken Algeria’s reign of power for two decades before his resignation in April 2019. He joined the independence war against France at the age of 19 as a protege of commander Boumediene, who became president in 1965.…
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French media malicious maneuvers remains hatched against stability in Algeria
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Nov
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French media malicious maneuvers remains hatched against stability in Algeria

BY: Hana Saada PEJOURNAL - French media maneuvers continue attempting to sap the stability of Algeria with the broadcast of biased documentaries aiming at spreading falsehood and tarnishing the image of the country that kicked out the French colonizer from its territories in 1962. The French television channel M6 broadcasted, two months, a program, entitled: “Enquête Exclusive” (Exclusive Inquiry). This 75-minute report, bearing the name: “Algeria, The Land of All revolts” which was filmed clandestinely in a "hidden camera" mode, portrays falsified and biased testimonies on Hirak “, the popular peaceful protests that erupted in the country in February 2019,…
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Western Sahara, Morocco clear-cut conflict escalation
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Nov
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Western Sahara, Morocco clear-cut conflict escalation

BY: Hana Saada PEJOURNAL - In a flagrant and deliberate violation of the Ceasefire agreement signed between the two parties to the conflict in Western Sahara (Frente POLISARIO and Morocco) in 1991, the Moroccan occupation forces opened, on Friday, three new breaches in the Moroccan military wall of shame with a view to attacking the peaceful Sahrawi protesters who are protesting peacefully in Guerguerat. In this aspect, the Moroccan Armed Forces sent military forces through three routes east of the illegal breach in Guerguerat to Sahrawi civilians who were demonstrating peacefully in the areas since October 21 against the illegal…
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The conflict between Middle East regional powers is drawing in Morocco and Algeria.
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Nov
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The conflict between Middle East regional powers is drawing in Morocco and Algeria.

BY: Andrew Hanna PEJOURNAL - Morocco notched a diplomatic win this week as the United Arab Emirates opened a consulate in the Western Sahara, where Rabat has long sought international recognition of its claim over the disputed territory. It also signaled a troubling regional shift. The hostility between Turkey and the Saudi-aligned Arab states risks embroiling the Maghreb region, much as it already complicates conflicts and politics from Libya to the Red Sea region. In North Africa, as across the greater Middle East, a widening of the Turkish-Saudi confrontation is heightening the risks of destabilization and threats to U.S. regional…
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