The whereabouts of the renowned Algerian novelist and intellectual Boualem Sansal have been unknown since he landed in Algeria on November 16. His wife and friends fear he has been persecuted because of his ideas, as part of a larger crackdown on dissidents. Sansal, who was traveling from France, is an outspoken critic of the military regime in Algiers. He irked the military rulers when he mentioned the colonial origins of Algeria’s current borders at the expense of historical Moroccan territories. The Algerian state imposes a blackout on that bloody era.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 22, 2024 12:05 UTC