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Algeria: Attacks on journalists continue
(Photo: Journalists Mouloudj (left) and Bouras (right)): An Algerian journalist and rights activist was taken into custody on Sunday facing a charge of "glorifying terrorism", one of his lawyers said. Hassan Bouras was also charged with belonging to a terrorist...
Algeria: Another bus crash kills 13 people in Naama
Thirteen people died and eight were injured in Algeria on Sunday when a bus collided with a truck in the northwest, emergency services said. The crash happened in the Oued Khebaza locality in Naama province, some 650 kilometres (400 miles) south of the capital...
Algeria: Former Tunisian presidential candidate Karoui placed in pre-trial detention in Algeria
The runner-up in Tunisia's 2019 presidential election, Nabil Karoui, has been placed in pre-trial detention in neighbouring Algeria, accused of "entering the country illegally", local media reported Sunday. Karoui and his brother Ghazi, an MP, had faced a hearing...
Regimes in Algeria and Tunisia gang up to kill democracy and human rights
Algeria-Tunisia: Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours Tunisian opposition politician and media owner Nabil Karoui and his brother, a member of the Tunisian parliament, were arrested by the Algerian authorities during a trip to the Algerian city of Tebessa, on the...
Tunisian businessman and ex presidential candidate Karoui arrested in Algeria
Liberal party leader Nabil Karoui, runner-up in Tunisia's 2019 presidential election that saw Kais Saied elected, has been arrested in Algeria along with his MP brother, media reports said Monday. The privately owned Radio Mosaique FM said border police arrested the...
Algeria says it will end natural gas transiting deal with Morocco
Algeria said Thursday it was ready to divert all its Spain-bound natural gas exports via an undersea pipeline that bypasses Morocco, state media said, two days after Algiers cut ties with its North African rival. In a meeting with Spanish Ambassador Fernando Moran,...
Morocco to close its Algiers embassy after ties cut
Morocco is to close its embassy in Algiers on Friday, an official source said, after Algeria severed ties with the kingdom over what it said were "hostile actions". From Friday, the embassy "will close, and the ambassador and all staff will be repatriated to Rabat",...
Algeria cuts ties with Morocco after months of diplomatic turmoil
Morocco says Algeria's cutting of diplomatic ties 'unjustified' Morocco's foreign ministry said Tuesday that Algeria's decision to cut diplomatic ties with its neighbour as "completely unjustified", adding that the decision was based on "false, even absurd pretexts"....
Algeria and Morocco squabble again, relations set to deteriorate further
A long history of distrust and wasted time Algeria is to review its relations with Morocco, accusing it of involvement in deadly fires that this month killed at least 90 people. The two Maghreb heavyweights have for decades been locked in tensions, notably over the...
Algeria: Wildfires continue to rage in northern Algeria on Sunday
Algerian firefighters were still struggling Sunday to put out 19 blazes in the north of the country, where 90 people were killed in wildfires this week. A statement from the emergency services said its teams were trying to extinguish 19 fires in 10 provinces. It said...
Algeria: Death toll from wildfires rises to 90
Algeria police arrest 36 after 'arsonist' lynching Algerian police said Sunday they had arrested 36 people including three women after the lynching of a man suspected of having started one of the country's deadly forest fires. Blazes spurred by a blistering heatwave...
French nuclear tests in the Sahara in the 1960s remain a toxic issue in Algeria-French relations
By Amal Belalloufi with Philippe Agret in Paris More than 60 years since France started its nuclear tests in Algeria, their legacy continues to poison relations between the North African nation and its former colonial ruler. The issue has come to the fore again after...
Algeria: Delta variant is driving Covid cases to new records, but fear is accelerating vaccinations
And in the Mideast too The World Health Organization said Thursday the Delta variant has led to a "surge" in coronavirus outbreaks triggering a "fourth wave" in the Eastern Mediterranean region, where vaccination rates remain low. The global health body said the...
Covid-19: Libya announces night curfew to stem rise of coronavirus, but not in Haftar’s controlled territories
Libya's government Monday announced a two-week overnight curfew in the areas it controls in the centre and west of the North African country, as it battles a rise in Covid-19 cases. A government statement said the 12-hour curfew would start at 6:00 pm and end at 6:00...
Covid-19: Sputnik V and Sinovac vaccines will be manufactured in Constantine, Algeria
Algeria will manufacture the Chinese coronavirus vaccine Sinovac locally, the government announced Saturday, in a country hit by rising cases and constrained by a patchy inoculation rollout. Chinese experts arrived Friday to inspect equipment destined for a factory in...
Reporters Without Borders retracts accusation that Algeria used Pegasus spyware
Algeria said Friday it filed a defamation claim against media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) after it back-pedalled accusations that the North African country had possessed Israeli-made Pegasus spyware. Algeria's embassy in France said the complaint related...
Morocco grapples with the Pegasus spyware problem
Morocco files French libel suit over Pegasus spyware claim Morocco has filed defamation claims against Amnesty International and a French NGO who claim its intelligence services used the Pegasus mobile phone spyware against dozens of French journalists, lawyers for...
Algeria-Morocco: Diplomatic tension over Moroccan diplomat’s support of Kabyle autonomy
Algeria recalled its ambassador in Morocco for consultations on Sunday as a new diplomatic spat broke out between the regional arch-rivals. The move came after Morocco's envoy to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, expressed support for self-determination for Algeria's...
Algerian Sahara: Unemployment and poverty riots erupt around Algeria’s southern oil and gas hubs
There has been escalating unrest in several localities in the northeast Algerian Sahara. The oil hubs of Ouargla, Hassi Messaoud, El Menea and Touggourt have been the most affected by riots of unemployed youths for about one week. Young protesters released their...
Algerian regime jails pro-democracy figure Laalami for two years
An Algerian court on Sunday jailed for two years Chems Eddine Laalami, a leading figure from the pro-democracy Hirak protest movement, a rights group said. Also known as Brahim, 30-year-old Laalami was arrested in late June by the Algerian coastguard as he attempted...
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