FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “Polisario leader Brahim Ghali in Spanish Court” – below is their description.
The leader of Western #Sahara’s independence movement, whose presence in Spain has angered the Moroccan government, will appear before a #Spanishcourt Tuesday to answer allegations of torture and genocide. Madrid’s decision to allow #BrahimGhali, who heads the Algeria-backed #Polisario Front, into Spain in mid-April to be treated for Covid-19 has angered Rabat. A month later, Spain was caught off guard as up to 10,000 people surged into its tiny north African enclave of #Ceuta as Moroccan border guards looked the other way in what was widely seen as a punitive political gesture. FRANCE 24’s Sarah Morris tells us more.
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Algeria, officially the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest by area in the African Union and the Arab world. With an estimated population of over 44 million, it is the eighth-most populous country in Africa.
Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the southeast by Niger, to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and the Western Saharan territory, to the west by Morocco, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country has a semi-arid geography, with most of the population living in the fertile north and the Sahara dominating the geography of the south. This arid geography makes the country very vulnerable to climate change.
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