{"id":61174,"date":"2026-05-25T10:08:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=61174"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:08:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:08:05","slug":"algeria-reaffirms-commitment-to-african-unity-backs-saharawi-self-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=61174","title":{"rendered":"Algeria Reaffirms Commitment to African Unity, Backs Saharawi Self-Determination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Attaf on Sunday reaffirmed Algeria&#8217;s unwavering commitment, under President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to strengthening pan-African cooperation, declaring Africa a <strong>&#8220;continent of promising futures.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to dzwatch at a ceremony marking World Africa Day, Attaf highlighted Algeria&#8217;s expanding diplomatic footprint across the continent, noting that Algerian embassies in Africa have grown from 29 to <strong>38 missions<\/strong>, with Air Alg\u00e9rie now serving 12 African destinations \u2014 expected to reach 20 soon.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria has also raised its annual scholarship quota for African youth from 5,000 to <strong>8,000 grants<\/strong> covering higher education and vocational training.<\/p>\n<p>On the Western Sahara, Attaf told dzwatch that recent developments <strong>vindicate Algeria&#8217;s decades-long position<\/strong>, welcoming the new UN-US supervised direct negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front, calling for a just and permanent solution guaranteeing the Saharawi people&#8217;s right to self-determination.<\/p>\n<p>Attaf also <strong>condemned Israeli occupation crimes<\/strong> in Gaza and the West Bank, warning they aim to eliminate any prospect of a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p>On Sudan, Mali, Libya, and Somalia, he called for dialogue, political solutions, and an end to all foreign interference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Attaf on Sunday reaffirmed Algeria&#8217;s unwavering commitment, under President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to strengthening pan-African cooperation, declaring Africa a &#8220;continent of promising futures.&#8221; Speaking exclusively to dzwatch at a ceremony marking World Africa Day, Attaf highlighted Algeria&#8217;s expanding diplomatic footprint across the continent, noting that Algerian embassies in Africa have grown from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}