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Podcast: One more election in Algeria and a highly compromised economic outlook
In this episode, Arezki Daoud of MEA Risk LLC and Editor of the North Africa Journal revisits Algeria after the most recent brief review on Egypt. Why Algeria? because the country is bracing for yet another election on 1 November with the government of President...
Algeria: Islamo-conservatives on the attack, unite in their disdain for minority languages and secularism
Algerian extremist court punishes man for his religious views, more human rights abuses by conservative judges An Algerian court on Thursday handed a key member of the Hirak anti-government protest movement a 10-year prison sentence for "inciting atheism", a rights...
Algerians in shock after murder of 19-year old woman
The rape and murder in Algeria of a 19-year-old woman sparked cries for action on gender-based violence in the North African country and calls to bring back capital punishment. The body of the young woman, identified as Chaima, was found in early October at a deserted...
Algerians defy regime repression, return to the street to demand change
Hundreds of Algerians defied a nationwide ban on protests and took to the streets Monday to demand democratic change and mark the anniversary of 1988 demonstrations that ushered in reforms. Around 400 to 500 demonstrators in Algiers tried to march to the city centre...
Algeria: Regime pushes for another unpopular poll: a constitution crafted for army-appointed President Tebboune
Algeria is readying for a constitutional referendum that the establishment says will usher in a "New Republic" and boost freedoms, but the opposition dismisses as window-dressing by a repressive regime. With a month to go before the November 1 vote, many ordinary...
With Russia’s presence in Libya and turmoil in the Sahel, US seeks to reengage with the Maghreb
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper signed a 10-year military cooperation deal with Tunis Wednesday during his first stop on a regional tour, hailing US-Tunisia collaboration over the conflict in neighbouring Libya. The past decade has seen growing cooperation between the...
Algerian lawyers hit back at government abuses, announce strike next week
Algeria's bar association said Monday it would hold a nationwide two-day strike this week to demand "respect for the right to a defence". In a statement, the National Union of Bar Associations urged lawyers to hold a "general strike... to protest against violations of...
Algerian regime jails activist Brahim Laalami and opposition politician Khaled Tazaghart
An Algerian court on Sunday sentenced to three years in jail a member of the "Hirak" protest movement that forced longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign last year, a rights group said. The group, CNLD, lists prisoners of conscience in Algeria. It said...
Algeria intensifies judicial harassment of Hirak activists
Since the sentencing of journalist Khaled Drareni and the re-arrest of Mohamed Laalami, several political activists have been targeted by a campaign of judicial harassment, worsening Algeria’s repressive strategy of ending political dissent and its human rights...
Algeria: Migrants perish off the coast of Algeria, hundreds rescued
Algiers, Sept 22, 2020 - Algeria said Tuesday coast guard officers had collected the bodies of 10 people drowned while seeking to cross from the North African nation to Europe, also stopping 485 migrants. Thousands regularly risk the dangerous crossing crammed onto...
Algeria: Incapable of governing, President Tebboune justifies repression with imaginary “destabilization” conspiracy
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has accused press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) of working to "destabilise" the country with its campaign against the jailing of its Algiers correspondent Khaled Drareni. Rights groups have "targeted" Algeria "to sap...
Algeria: Former cop who joined anti-regime protests sent to prison
A former Algerian policeman who joined the country's protest movement was sentenced on Thursday to two years in jail, a prisoners' rights group said. Toufik Hassani was convicted of "threatening police agents" and "divulging professional secrets on Facebook",...
Economy: Plethora of problems are hitting Algerian winemakers hard
Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria - Algerian winemaker Dahmane Hamamouche used to rise early and rush to work each morning, but he no longer bothers, as his firm chokes on a cocktail of woes. Long accustomed to nasty surprises including unpredictable weather patterns and...
Algeria: United Nations independent experts pressuring Algeria to release wrongly jailed journalist
A journalist jailed for his coverage of mass protests in Algeria must be released, United Nations independent experts said on Wednesday. Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on Tuesday as a crackdown on dissent intensifies after a year of anti-government...
Companies: Series of blunders result in millions of dollars of losses to Algeria oil firm Sonatrach ($)
After the disastrous oil leaks last week that took place on one of its pipelines in El-Oued and the problems that prompted a halt in activity in the LNG facilities in Skikda and Arzew on 7 September, Sonatrach experienced an explosion that reportedly damaged a large...
Algeria: Government-controlled court sentences journalist Drareni to two years in prison
Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on appeal Tuesday, a defence lawyer said, in a case seen as a barometer of press freedom in the North African country. Drareni, 40, has been in custody since March and was sentenced in August to three years...
The Algerian regime does it again: it blocks Internet access for the whole country to secure a pointless high-school exam
Algerians were unable to access social media accounts on Sunday as students sat national exams in the North African country where authorities are cracking down on cheating. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp were inaccessible, an AFP journalist...
Algeria: Like all previous presidents, Tebboune wants his version of the constitution
Algeria's government has adopted draft constitutional revisions aimed at responding to the demands of the country's "Hirak" protest movement, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has said. "The proposal is fully in line with the requirements of modern state building and...
Algeria: Two political prisoners go on hunger strike
(Photo: Poet Mohamed Tadjadit) Two jailed activists from Algeria's anti-government "Hirak" protest movement have been on hunger strike for over a week to protest their incarceration, one of their lawyers said Saturday. Mohamed Tadjadit, nicknamed the "Hirak poet",...
The Algerian regime now sends poets to prison
The Algerian regime is gripped by fear that the anti-government Hirak movement reignites. Mass arrests have accelerated across the nation. The moment the sound of discontent is heard and more than a handful of people congregate, the political police unleash violence...
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