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Algeria Gate: Does the United Arab Emirates really believe that when it issues a condolence statement addressed to the Algerian Republic without offering condolences to its president in the same statement, Algerians will be pleased by that? The one who advised the writer of the statement to do so is greatly mistaken. On the contrary, It will be glaringly obvious to Algerians that it is the dirtiest and most vulgar condolence that could come to them from a country claiming to be a brother!

The United Arab Emirates’ statement fell outside the diplomatic norms and ethics observed throughout the world. It first specifically mentions the official name “the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria” and second offers condolences to the families of the victims, placing the Algerian people in the very last line, without offering condolences to the President of the Republic; whom diplomatic ethics require to be the recipient of the condolence on behalf of Algeria and its people, as is universally recognized!

Moreover, the condolence came from an unknown source! It was not adopted by any entity in the Emirates; it merely appeared with the state emblem at the head of the condolence message!

Does Abu Dhabi imagine that the Algerian people will accept this!? It has already been proven to Algerians, before the entire world, that the hands of the UAE’s ruler are stained with the blood of Muslims everywhere, and that they sponsor the planning and execution of chaos and the destabilization of all Arab countries, beginning with their neighbors in the Arabian Peninsula, and first among them Algeria in Africa!

With this approach, the Emirates seek to disavow before Algerians a fixed and even inherent trait in them… a killer walking in the funeral procession of his victim!

By this condolence, Abu Dhabi underestimates the intelligence of Algerians and believes they do not follow international events and are ignorant of all the international investigations and condemnations, from Arabs and non-Arabs alike, for the blood that Abu Dhabi and its rulers spill in Palestine, Sudan, and Libya, and that it is the primary sponsor of smuggling drug poisons to Algerian youth, financing every hostile scheme against Algeria from abroad, and using dirty money to pressure and besiege Algeria and its economy…

The Emirates’ condolence is rejected and returned to them. To be sure of this, let them check the algorithms of the social media platforms they manage as they please from their own land: the Algerian people have unified their voice against all the enemies of their country, including the Emirates, and have said: “You light the fire, and we stand in solidarity and put it out.” Lesson’s over.

Algeria Gate: Algerian Prime Minister, Sifi Ghrieb, conveyed today, Friday, at the cultural center in the municipality of El Djemaa Beni Habibi (Jijel), the condolences of President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to the families of the victims of the fires that struck Jijel Province. He affirmed the President’s support and solidarity, reiterating the state’s determination to stand by the victims’ families, address their concerns, and take all necessary measures and steps to alleviate the effects of this tragedy.

According to the Prime Minister’s Office, during his meeting with a number of the victims’ families, the Prime Minister listened to their concerns and needs, stressing that the public authorities will give them full attention and care, and work to address them as soon as possible.

Acting on the instructions of President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the Prime Minister, accompanied by a number of government members, took part on Friday in the funeral ceremonies for the victims of the fires that hit Jijel Province.

The funeral rites were held at Dar El Baqa Cemetery in the El Djemaa Beni Habibi area in a solemn atmosphere marked by grief and sorrow. They were attended by the victims’ families, local authorities, and a large number of citizens who insisted on sharing the families’ great loss and expressing their solidarity and condolences in this painful time.

The victims’ bodies were laid to rest amid deep feelings of emotion and sadness, in a scene that embodied the scale of the tragedy that has befallen the families in Jijel Province and that has left a state of mourning and solidarity across different regions of the country.

On this painful occasion, Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb prayed for the souls of the fire victims, asking Almighty God to grant them His vast mercy and forgiveness, to place them in His spacious Paradise, and to inspire their relatives with beautiful patience and solace.

He also asked God Almighty to grant the injured and wounded a swift and complete recovery, and to protect Algeria and its people from all harm.

Amar Belani; former Ambassador

Algeria Gate: Mohammed bin Zayed has set the United Arab Emirates on a reckless bid for regional power that it was never built to hold. A confetti-state with neither the population nor the territory of a true power, Abu Dhabi compensates with vast wealth, world-class infrastructure, dense influence networks and a rapidly expanding defense industry. The formula is simple: invest heavily, cultivate local proxies, and build autonomous military muscle. The result is influence wildly out of proportion to the country’s size.

Yet the method rests on a fatal contradiction. To prosper, Abu Dhabi multiplies interference, leans on fragile states, local forces, militias and shadowy economic networks; exactly the forces that hollow out the central institutions of the countries it claims to engage.

The Sahel offers a clear case. The Emirates; working with its strategic partners, Israel and Morocco, is pushing economic and financial footholds into the Alliance of Sahel States. The goal goes beyond investment: it targets infrastructure, trade routes and financial circuits in what has long been Algeria’s strategic depth. The move is deliberate and hostile, designed to shrink Algiers’ room to defend its southern interests. Dubai, meanwhile, has become the hub for African gold. Much of the Sahel’s production travels informal channels before reaching Emirati markets, feeding parallel economies and the mafias that orbit conflict.

Yemen is the purest expression of this cynical playbook. After joining the Saudi-led intervention against the Houthis in 2015, the Emirates built its own network of southern forces. At Abu Dhabi’s instigation, the Southern Transitional Council pursues separatist aims. The partner supposedly helping rebuild the Yemeni state is arming a force whose purpose is to tear it apart.

The same fragmenting logic operates in Sudan. Abu Dhabi backs dissident forces and separatist impulses to seize control of Darfur’s gold. In Libya it has long supported Khalifa Haftar alongside Egypt, consolidating a rival military power against the internationally recognized government. UN reports have repeatedly documented Emirati breaches of the arms embargo. Southern Libya has become a transit zone linking Haftar’s circle to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, closing the circuit.

Tunisia saw a similar attempt to plant durable political, financial and diplomatic networks against Islamist currents viewed as close to the Turkey-Qatar axis. The method never changes: bet on local partners willing to serve Emirati interests, even if it destabilizes institutional balances.

Sudan remains the bloodiest theater. Since the war began, the Rapid Support Forces of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo have received massive Emirati backing. Abu Dhabi denies it; international investigations keep confirming the presence of Emirati-origin military equipment. The result is a policy that fuels conflict through seditious local actors and sustains war crimes against civilians.

In the Horn of Africa the Emirates has woven a web of ports, airstrips and footholds around the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden; Berbera, Socotra, Mayun, Assab and more. Some of these “commercial” assets carry clear dual-use potential. Support for Somaliland prioritizes a pliable partner over Somali state authority. Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has tightened operational proximity between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv, sharpening rivalry with Turkey and Egypt, which back Somali unity. DP World and AD Ports investments follow the same pattern: commercial gains that create strategic access and future political leverage.

This economic reach travels with military ambition. The creation of the EDGE defense conglomerate in 2019 signals the drive to produce drones, missiles, armored vehicles, ships and electronics at home. Autonomy expands freedom of action. The Abraham Accords and the deployment of Israeli air-defense systems on Emirati soil have accelerated technology transfers.

The Saudi-Emirati rivalry has moved beyond personalities. It is now a clash of power models. Abu Dhabi intends to remain the region’s premier financial, commercial and logistical platform. Riyadh, through Vision 2030, wants Saudi Arabia to claim that role. Yemen, Sudan and the Horn have become the main arenas of this competition.

The emerging Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan alignment around the Mecca pact is partly a response. Officially about collective security, it also gives Riyadh tools to loosen dependence on Washington and contain Abu Dhabi’s growing autonomy. Turkey brings defense industry and operational experience; Pakistan brings military capacity and a nuclear dimension; Saudi Arabia brings money and political weight. For Ankara the project is more than tactical: it is the outline of a regional security architecture grounded in sovereignty and mutual trust, with Turkey at the center.

Sudan may be the first test. Turkey supports the Sudanese army, Saudi Arabia has moved closer, Pakistan has provided material backing, while the RSF remains tied to the network attributed to the Emirates. The Riyadh-Abu Dhabi contest is now fought through proxies. Egypt keeps its distance, constrained by economic interdependence and Emirati financial support. Turkey, by contrast, seeks to convert military and industrial strength into broader political reach across the Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa.

No formal anti-Emirati front has yet formed. But the contestation of Abu Dhabi’s model is growing. That model thrives by exploiting regional fractures; and, through relentless interference, deepens them.