HIBAPRESS
The Algerian military regime is still sinking in the swamp of diplomatic isolation it created for itself, since the incident of shooting down the Malian drone north of Mali near the Algerian border, and the strong responses that followed from the Sahel countries, especially Burkina Faso and Niger, then Mali, which resorted to the International Court of Justice to file a complaint against Algeria's aggressive actions.
In a desperate attempt to polish the image of his regime and to appease its neighbors, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune gave a begging speech in front of the Algerian military leadership during his visit to the Ministry of Defense headquarters, saying: "With our brothers in the Sahel, I hope that awareness will return and neighborliness will be preserved, and we remember that we were brothers once, and we used to help each other." He also tried to justify the crisis by saying that relations with the Sahel countries "have not yet reached the point of no return."
However, observers considered this speech an indirect admission of the failure of the military regime's foreign policy, which found itself regionally besieged after losing the trust of neighboring countries, and the increasing internal crises within the military establishment, especially after the escape of Generals Nasser El Djin and Hassan outside the country.
The same observers believe that the growing Russian support for the President of the transitional phase in Mali, General Assimi Goita, increased the confusion of the Algerian regime and deepened its isolation in the region, especially in light of the deterioration of its relations with both France and the Kingdom of Morocco, because of its hostile stances and its continued fueling of the fabricated conflict in the Moroccan Sahara.
