Algerian Officials Accused Morocco of Being Behind Ghardaia Killings

Men of Algerian President take turns to accuse Morocco of instigating clashes last week in Ghardaia. Another field where the two adversaries, Ouyahya and Sellal rival returns to please their mentors.

The uneasy calm that prevails in Ghardaia benefits Algerian officials to revive the theory of conspiracy abroad, implied Morocco. Ahmed Ouyahya and Abdelmalek Sellal, the leading candidates to succeed the ailing president succeed to dust the old thesis that other officials had relayed during serious incidents spring 2014.

On the occasion of a meeting with the notables of the region, the Prime Minister Sellal, the favorite of Said Bouteflika, said that “a brother state” financially supports Amazigh autonomy movements of Mzab. The man best known for his many expletives states that “countries known to be enemies of Algeria planned the events of Ghardaia.”

Ouyahya, director of the office of the Algerian President, recently propelled acting head of the National Democratic Rally, also sees the “foreign hand”. More direct than his great rival (Sellal), he thinks his country is paying the support price of self-determination of Western Sahara. For him what is happening in Algeria reminds conspiracies against the stability of “Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Libya.” The former prime minister said that “abroad” punished in this way Algeria for its political positions.