Algeria refuses aid from the UAE to protest its conspiracies against the country
In a new blow to the Emirati regime, Algeria refused aid from the UAE, including shipments of the Corona vaccine and funds to overcome the economic crisis.
Informed sources said that Algeria refused aid that the UAE had provided to overcome the current circumstance last February.
The sources revealed that the UAE’s aid to Algeria is in shipments of the new Corona vaccine, especially since Algeria is moving very slowly in the vaccination process due to its reliance on the Russian vaccine exclusively.
UAE aid to Algeria
Algeria is experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis for months, as the country anticipated the economic and social repercussions caused by the Coronavirus on the entire world because Algeria’s situation was an exception that led to a social explosion that developed into mobility in February 2019.
According to the sources, the UAE has offered Algeria material aid to overcome the economic crisis that suffocates the country and led to its currency collapse.
The same sources added that Algeria had refused any assistance from the UAE altogether, indicating its unwillingness to end the past dispute and open a new page between the two countries.
According to the information available, the UAE did not seek to win Algeria’s consent by restoring the broken files. It is still supporting Morocco in the Sahara issue and has opened a consulate in El-Ayoun.
The threat of Abu Dhabi
The French Maghreb Intelligence website revealed a few weeks ago that the UAE threatened Algeria to review its political and economic relationship and withdraw all its investments from the country, following Tebboune’s statements about normalization and scrambling towards it.
The French website added that Abu Dhabi did not view with satisfaction the Turkish-Algerian rapprochement in the Libyan file, as it preferred Algeria to support its ally Haftar, which would have easily settled the conflict in his favor in his battle against the internationally recognized reconciliation government at the time.
The UAE sent its foreign minister, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, immediately after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan left Houari Boumediene International Airport in January 2020.
On the other hand, the UAE banned Algerians last November from entering its territory with nine other citizens.
This is under the pretext of fighting the Coronavirus, as revealed by Reuters, even though Algeria was not recording a high number of infections.
It seems that the change of the balance of power in the region after the defeat of the first ally, the UAE in the American presidential race, Donald Trump, and the arrival of Democrat Joe Biden to the White House, made the UAE restore its calculations in its relationship with its Gulf and Arab surroundings so that it was forced to reconcile Qatar after its siege with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt.
Egypt’s company also yielded to Libya’s political solution after it believed that this rich country’s decision could be achieved by its ally, Khalifa Haftar, militarily.
It is expected that the UAE will back down or at least ease its hostile policy towards Algeria as part of the political reviews that Abu Dhabi is carrying out after Trump’s loss.
