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A heavy police presence smothered central Algiers on Friday, aimed at blocking any resumption of a weekly protest movement that the authorities have decided they can no longer tolerate.
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WorldSpanish court rejects arrest of Polisario Front leader Emma Pinedo 3 minute read Brahim Ghali, new secretary general of Polisario Front and president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), reacts during an extraordinary congress at the Sahrawi refugee camp of Dakhla, southeast of the Algerian city of Tindouf, July 9, 2016. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina Spain's High Court rejected on Thursday a request to arrest Western Sahara's independence leader, whose admittance to a Spanish hospital last month angered Morocco, and comes after migrants crossed into Spain's North African enclave of Ce...
WorldOn Ceuta border, a window to a better life opens - and then closes Reuters 3 minute read Weary of his hand-to-mouth existence in a poverty-stricken Moroccan town, Yasser El-Shada thought his route to a better life had opened up this week when controls at the border with Ceuta, a Spanish enclave just down the road, appeared to ease. He and his best friend in Fnideq on the Mediterranean coast joined crowds of other would-be migrants heading for the tiny pocket of European territory by swimming around the fence separating it from North Africa. They were part of an estimated 8,000-strong wav...
WorldPolisario Front leader Ghali served with Spanish court summons in war crime case Reuters 1/2 Brahim Ghali, new secretary general of Polisario Front and president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), reacts during an extraordinary congress at the Sahrawi refugee camp of Dakhla, southeast of the Algerian city of Tindouf, July 9, 2016. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina Read More Spain's high court has served Western Sahara independence leader Brahim Ghali with a June 1 summons for a preliminary hearing in a war crimes case against him, a court document seen by Reuters on Wednesday showed. Th...