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Algeria: Remembering Amazigh’s Black Spring
MENA region more vulnerable to Covid-19 with the start of Ramadan
Algeria: Human rights groups demand release of 23 political prisoners on hunger strike
Algeria: Labor unrest intensifies as general prices rise. Country’s outlook compromised
Algeria: Political prisoners launch hunger strike
Algeria: Meet the real strongman: And he is not president
Algeria withdraws law stripping citizenship to opponents abroad, big loss for regime hardliners
Algeria: 15-year-old boy accuses police of sex abuse
Algeria: Guards and one inmate die in freak accident in Bejaia prison
Algeria: Journalist Abdelhakim Setouane gets six months in prison
Algeria: Hirak launches fifth week of anti-regime protest
Algeria: Journalist Drareni heads back to court after Supreme Court orders retrial
By Abdellah Cheballah with Philippe Agret - Prominent journalist Khaled Drareni, a symbol of the struggle for a free press in Algeria, is to face a retrial after the supreme court accepted his lawyers' cassation appeal on Thursday. "The supreme court overturned the...
Moroccan farmers in Algeria’s Laaroda oasis: Victims of a neglected conflict
Algeria: Hirak movement strengthens, Algerians confirm disconnect with regime
Algeria expels Moroccan farmers from its territory, courtesy Western Sahara crisis
NAJ | 19 March 2021: The Algerian authorities have issued an ultimatum to Moroccan farmers working of the Laaroda Oasis palm grove, located in Beni Ouenif, province of Bechar. The ultimatum was to leave the region by 18 March. AFP reported that the withdrawal happened...
Covid-19 in Algeria: Coping with the pandemic inside a Blida hospital
At a hospital near the Algerian capital, staff say they are "on the verge of burnout" more than a year on from the facility's first coronavirus-related admissions. Blida province has been one of the epicentres of Algeria's novel coronavirus outbreak, and was the site...
Algeria: Earthquake rattles coastal Bejaia, seven people injured
Seven people wounded (NAJ - 18 March 2021) - Residents of Bejaia spent a good part of the night from Wednesday to Thursday outside. The earthquake, which was felt within a radius of 300 km, was felt in 12 provinces. Seven people living in old buildings in Bejaia were...
Algerians reject regime’s political roadmap, insist on deep reforms and no status quo
Video: 12 March 2021 protest in Algiers Protesters demanding the end of the military regime, call generals "traitors" Thousands demonstrated in Algiers on Friday, rejecting early legislative elections announced the day before, as weekly rallies by the resurgent Hirak...
Algeria’s early legislative elections set for 12 June
Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday issued a decree setting June 12 for early legislative elections after he dissolved parliament last month, his office said. Legislative elections were scheduled to be held in 2022, but Tebboune in February dissolved...
Algeria: Protest movement enters third week of rallies as students maintain their Tuesday marches
Hundreds of students and pro-democracy supporters demonstrated in Algiers Tuesday as a revived protest movement enters its third week of rallies. The march made its way through the main streets of the Algerian capital to reach the central post office, AFP journalists...
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