Algeria accuses Arab countries of infiltrating terrorists to destabilize the Maghreb.
Algiers has decided to drive back all Arab migrants, especially Syrians, coming to its southern borders. From a security source, they would be "terrorists" from Syria and Yemen sent by Arab states to destabilize Algeria and the whole Maghreb. "The government's decision to deny access to Algeria to Arab migrants arriving through Niger and Mali is irrevocable," Algerian online news agency TSA Arabi Hacène Kacimi, director of migration at the ministry, told IRIN. inside. Recalling that his country had so far hosted more than 50,000 Syrians for humanitarian reasons, the official revealed that Algeria is now facing a new phenomenon. The infiltration of Arab migrants from Syria, Yemen and Palestine "through channels controlled by armed groups". ... Read the full article