The COVID-19 pandemic poses a huge threat to over 170,000 people in Sahrawi refugee camps in western Algeria, as local authorities and organizations were vastly unprepared for such circumstances caused by the disease due to severely limited financial resources, the Oxfam international relief group said on Friday

The Spanish Foreign Ministry received information suggesting that terrorist attacks linked to the Islamic State (IS, banned in Russia) may take place in southwestern Algeria and target Spanish nationals visiting refugee camps there, El Pais newspaper reported on Thursday, citing sources