Algeria: Separatist movement’s members resign

Four senior members of the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia (MAK) resigned last week in protest against their leader Ferhat Mheni who deals continuously with Israeli officials, Echorouk has learnt.

• Ferhat Mheni’s advisor had accused him of receiving huge sums from Moroccans to fund his separatist movement and disturb the Algerian authorities.
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• The MAK’s leader is prosecuted by the Algerian justice.
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• The resignations came a few days after former member of the so-called the Temporary Government Idir Djouder had resigned from the organisation. He discovered that Mheni had received 250,000 euros from the Moroccan government per month since 2010 to fund a radio in Paris.
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• Djouder said the Kabylian singer who earns 4,500 euros denied all those allegations.
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• The MAK’s leader proposed his cooperation with the Moroccan intelligence in return for considerable sums of money. This comes as part of the concretisation of a self-governance proposed by Morocco as the only solution for the Western Sahara cause.