Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 12/8/2003
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of December 8, 2003
- Saharan NGOs denounce Polisario abuses
A group of human rights advocates from the Sahara (Southern Moroccan provinces) has denounced what it described as the "inhuman practices" by the separatist movement "Polisario" against Moroccans sequestered in Tindouf (Southwestern Algeria). Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 12/11/2003 - Algeria: proposal to parliament to remove suspicion in election results
Algerian parties announced yesterday for the first time that they had proposed amending the election law so as to prevent members serving in the army from voting at their work sites, along with the police members, and the security official members, in order to avoid what they call as falsifications in the presidential elections in April, 2004. Algeria, Politics, 12/9/2003 - Poignant testimonies by Polisaro victims at conference confound separatists
Poignant testimonies delivered on Saturday by victims of Polisario human rights violations, deportations and torture confounded the separatists and shattered lies and allegations presented at a conference held in the French capital in honor of the Polisario. Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 12/9/2003 - King's call for dialogue over sahara issue, a strong message, says Palacio Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 12/9/2003
- No solution to Sahara dispute without dialogue between Algiers and Rabat Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 12/9/2003
- Algeria Islamic scholar Ahmad Sahnoun dies at 97
One of the most prominent Islamists leaders and former leader of the Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Muslim Brothers Movement) in Algeria, Ahmad Sahnoun, died yesterday at 97 year old. Algeria, Local, 12/9/2003