![]() ![]() When it comes to war in these technology-driven times, the external image is the most important asset. Because of the great threat posed by the use of advanced military drones in the area, this puts the Algerian army in a very dangerous situation from a purely tactical point of view. The Chinese do not seem convinced of the wisdom of this strategy, even though Algeria and Morocco are among their customers and sell systems that exploit the failures of their own drones. On the other hand, it turns out that Chinese suppliers are hesitant to sell these technologies given that China has become one of the world's leading sellers of military drones, particularly in North Africa. PHOTO/ARCHIVO - The recent dissolution of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LADDH) highlights the growing repression by the government of Abdelmadjid Tebbouneīecause of this impasse, the Algerian army was forced to look to China in an effort to acquire anti-drone systems. Due to the new political and diplomatic crisis provoked by the so-called case of Amira Bouraoui, this French-Algerian adversary evacuated by France from Tunisian territory where she was forcibly abducted to be extradited to Algiers, negotiations with French partners have taken the form of "a serious fire", in the words of the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron. These acts, revealed exclusively by Maghreb Intelligence, have led the Algerian army to accelerate its negotiations abroad to urgently acquire anti-drone detection radars in response to the growing "threat" posed by Moroccan drones.Īccording to the Arabic media outlet Said Chengriha, the head of Algeria's armed forces insisted to his French military counterparts during a strategic visit to Paris at the end of January that Algeria urgently arm itself with the same radars that the French army had recently begun experimenting with by placing them on armoured vehicles that shoot down drones. So far, drones have been used to deal heavy blows to the Polisario Front's armed militias by neutralising many of their equipment and numerous armed units - many of them of Iranian origin. ![]() The Algerian military is struggling to find an adequate countermeasure to the alleged threat posed by Moroccan drones, including all the latest-generation Israeli drones - such as the Hermes900 drones - delivered to Morocco in huge numbers since 2021. PHOTO/REUTERS - Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit - Roundtable at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Septemin Beijing, China In fact, it is no coincidence that these two countries are being called upon, since the former has left the African continent aside, among other reasons, due to the ineffectiveness of certain governments, and the latter, China, is the continent's largest investor and a public enemy of the United States, Morocco's main ally. It is common knowledge that China and France possess nuclear weapons and are, year after year since the end of the Second World War, among the top ten armies in the world, so once again this is a political rather than a strategic move. The latest move by Algiers has been to draw attention to the fact that it is urging France and China to "protect themselves from Morocco". If we analyse the events that followed these declarations, the first conclusion we can draw is that the Algerian government is better off living in confrontation in order to keep its citizens on a war footing with their "neighbour" and prevent them from reflecting on their problems. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declared to the local press at the end of last year that "the break with Morocco was an alternative to war between the two countries". ![]()
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