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• Air France Ends Special Fares for Repatriation Flights, Regular Pricing Resumes
  12 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  Air France announced on Sunday, May 10, the end of its "special and capped fares" used for the repatriation operations of French and dual nationals stranded abroad due to covid-19.
  These fares, intended to "allow the return of French people abroad on all our flights to France", are being discontinued, the airline said. As a result, "the usual pricing applies [from now on], but with tickets modifiable free of charge", Air France said.
  Since Monday, the French company has been operating a (…)

• Maghreb Leaders Urge Calm as Morocco-Algeria Tensions Escalate
  4 September 2021, by Sylvanus

  Moroccan and Algerian personalities have, in a petition, expressed their great concern about the current escalation in relations between Rabat and Algiers. They call "on all people and organizations of goodwill in the two countries, and beyond the Maghreb, to act for a return to reason".
  The Moroccan, Khadija Ryadi, former president of the AMDH, winner of the UN Human Rights Prize, the Algerian Lotfi Maherzi, academic, former rector

• Human Rights Watch Official Expelled from Algeria After Attending Protest
  21 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  After his expulsion ordered on Sunday, August 18, 2019 by the Algiers Tribunal, the former Moroccan journalist and former founder of the TelQuel magazine arrived on Monday in Casablanca.
  Several charges have been brought against the former Moroccan journalist, currently Director of Communication for the Maghreb and the Middle East of the American organization, Human Rights Watch. According to Hespress, his participation in a popular demonstration that takes place every Friday (Hirak 26th (…)

• French Coach Patrice Beaumelle Addresses Rumors of Islamic Conversion
  18 April 2024, by Sylvanus

  Patrice Beaumelle, 46, the current French coach of MC Alger, and former assistant to Hervé Renard in Morocco, reacted to his conversion to Islam announced by several media.
  "I think no one has to give this information but me. It’s a lack of respect to publish such information. I don’t appreciate it. If there is someone who can give this information, it’s me and no one else," Patrice Beaumelle lashed out in an audio message broadcast by the newspaper Ennahar TV and quoted by TSA. For its (…)

• Moroccan Club Wydad Secures Late Draw Against USM Alger in CAF Champions League
  1 December 2019, by Bladi.net

  The Moroccan club went to snatch the draw on the pitch of USM Alger (1-1). The Algerians, from the start of the match, took the lead and were leading in the 6th minute thanks to midfielder Abdelkrim Zouari.
  Multiplying the opportunities to come back to the score, the Wydadis scored the equalizing goal in the 89th minute with a powerful shot from midfielder Badie Aouk. This goal allowed WAC to avoid defeat at the last minute in Blida.
  At the end of this match, Wydad is positioned in 2nd (…)

• Algeria Abruptly Postpones Spanish Foreign Minister’s Visit, Raising Diplomatic Questions
  27 February 2020, by Sylvanus

  The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Arancha González Laya, was to visit Algiers on February 26. Unexpectedly, Algeria decided to postpone this visit. And for good reason...
  The visit of the Spanish Foreign Minister, initially scheduled for February 26, was postponed due to the busy schedule of the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sabri Boukadoum, according to El Confidencial. Curiously, the newspaper indicates that the minister had no planned (…)

• Moroccan Foreign Minister Remains at Arab League Summit Despite Map Controversy
  30 October 2022, by Said

  The rumors that Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita left the meeting of Foreign Ministers at the Arab League summit are false.
  Thus, contrary to what several Algerian media claim, the Moroccan minister did not leave the meeting to protest against the broadcast by an Algerian news channel of a false map of Morocco. After this blunder, the Arab League had to issue a clarification and apologize to Morocco.
  Furthermore, according to a Moroccan diplomatic source, it is not the custom of (…)

• Moroccan Nationals Blocked from Protesting in Algiers Amid Repatriation Dispute
  16 June 2020, by Kamal

  The Algerian authorities prevented, on Sunday, Moroccan nationals from demonstrating in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Algiers. Marginalized during the repatriation operation, they decided to organize a sit-in protest.
  According to the Algerian newspaper Alkhabar, a dozen protesters, blocked since the borders were closed, were dispersed by the police, even before reaching the headquarters of the ministry where they had intended to hold a rally.
  Before taking refuge at the (…)

• China Poised to Mediate Morocco-Algeria Tensions, Experts Suggest
  14 March 2021, by Sylvanus

  Faced with tensions between Morocco and Algeria, especially over the Sahara, China, which is their partner, could use its full weight to facilitate constructive interaction between the two countries. This is at least the view of Michaël Tanchum, associate professor at the University of Navarra, and Nerea Álvarez-Aríztegui, a student at the same university.
  "China finds itself at a crossroads as it expands its economic presence in the Maghreb. The escalation of tensions between Algeria and (…)

• Moroccan National Arrested at Algerian Hirak Protest, Police Say
  27 March 2021, by Sylvanus

  During the 110th week of the peaceful Hirak protests, the police arrested a Moroccan on Friday, March 26 in Algiers. He is a 30-year-old man in an irregular situation on Algerian territory.
  "The security services of the wilaya of Algiers succeeded today, Friday, March 26, at the level of the May 1st square, in arresting a person of Moroccan nationality who was infiltrating among the participants in the Hirak march," indicates the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) in a (…)