Sun 03 October 2021:

Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh spoke over the phone with the Taliban government’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Muttaqi on Saturday, according to the Palestinian resistance group, reports Anadolu Agency.

During the contact, Haniyeh hailed the Taliban victory over US occupation forces in Afghanistan, Hamas said in a statement.

Haniyeh voiced hope that the Taliban movement “could have a role in supporting their brothers in Palestine to liberate Jerusalem.”

He also underlined the necessity to keep “Palestine present in the speeches of the Afghan Foreign Ministry, especially Jerusalem and the ongoing (Israeli) violations there.”

Muttaqi, for his part, expressed his pride in the struggle of the Palestinian people and their steadfastness in Jerusalem, according to the Hamas statement.

In mid-August, the Taliban movement seized control of Afghanistan in parallel with the US troop withdrawal from the country. And in September, the Taliban announced an interim government to administer Afghanistan affairs.

Photo: Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh with Mullah Bardar.

ALGERIA RECALLS AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE FOR CONSULTATIONS

Africa World

Sun 03 October 2021:

Algeria has recalled its ambassador to France for consultations after what it called “irresponsible” comments attributed to French President Emmanuel Macron, Algeria’s presidency said on Saturday, reports Reuters.

“Following comments that several sources attributed to … Macron, Algeria expresses its categorical rejection of inadmissible interference in its internal affairs,” the presidency said in a statement.

“Faced with the particularly inadmissible situation inflicted by these irresponsible remarks, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune decided to immediately recall the ambassador,” it said.

The statement said the remarks, which have not been denied by French authorities, are harmful to Algerian martyrs who fought for independence from France, without giving details.

“Those remarks are an intolerable attack on the memory of martyrs,” it said.

On Thursday, the government said it had summoned the French ambassador to Algiers after Paris decided to slash the number of visas it issues to nationals of Algeria and other countries in North African’s Maghreb region.

Algeria’s foreign ministry described the move, which France said was in response to Maghreb governments’ refusal to take back illegal migrants sent home by Paris, as a “unilateral decision of the French government”.

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