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Algeria: Two more troops killed in counterinsurgency sweep in Medea
Algiers, June 28, 2020 - Two Algerian soldiers, including an officer, were killed when a bomb exploded during an army operation in the north of the country, the defence ministry said Sunday. Captain Fateh Bensmail and Sergeant Zakaria Khaldi were killed Saturday...
Algeria virus cases hit daily record
Algiers, June 26, 2020 - Algeria's health ministry said Friday it recorded 240 new COVID-19 cases the day before, the country's highest daily tally since the pandemic began and three weeks after easing a lockdown. Djamel Fourar, the spokesman for the ministry's...
How despair and misery fuel North Africa migration
"Here, I don't exist -- I die little by little. My only hope is to leave for Europe." Algiers, June 25, 2020 (By Amal Belalloufi with Aymen Jamli in Tunis) - "Here, I don't exist -- I die little by little," said Hamid, a young Algerian, his gaze fixed on Mediterranean...
Algeria: Sonatrach oil company operating without CFO
Since March 2020, Sonatrach has been operating without a Chief Finance Officer (CFO), despite a presidential decree announcing the appointment of Hadj Djilali Abouda. Abouda was appointed Vice President of Finance by a presidential decree on 30 March, but he never...
Algeria: President chooses status quo, maintains anti-democracy hardliners in bloated cabinet
(Photo: Hardliner Justice Minister Zaghmati maintained in post) Late on Tuesday, the Algerian presidency announced a reshuffle of the government cabinet, which saw some minor changes in the financial and economic portfolios, but maintained status-quo elsewhere. The...
Algeria: Five more people sentenced to prison for protesting
Algiers, June 23, 2020 - Five people were sentenced Tuesday in Algeria to between six months and a year behind bars after taking part in a banned demonstration, prisoners' rights group CNLD said. Fourteen people -- the youngest aged 19 -- appeared in court after being...
Algerian regime lost the moral high ground: It is arresting children too in new wave of repression
In an effort to repress civilians, the Algerian police prevented the holding on Friday, 19 June of several rallies across the country, using repression, as was the case in the eastern cities of Annaba, Bouira and Bejaia. But what raised uproar was the image of a...
Algerian regime maintains its attacks on civilians, jails mother of two
Algiers, June 21, 2020 - Algeria sentenced prominent anti-government activist Amira Bouraoui to a year in prison on Sunday amid a growing climate of repression, one of her lawyers told AFP. "This conviction is unjust, there is no evidence. We are going to appeal," ...
Algeria: Clash with insurgents in Ain Defla leaves one soldier dead
Algiers, June 21, 2020 - An Algerian soldier was killed during a clash with armed Islamists in the central region of Ain Defla, the defence ministry said Sunday, adding that an operation was still underway. An army detachment clashed with "an armed terrorist group",...
Algerian government attacks pro-democracy activists
Algiers, June 19, 2020 (By Amal Belalloufi, with Philippe Agret in Tunis) - Algeria has intensified a crackdown on an anti-government protest movement, targeting social media users in a bid to stop demonstrations resuming once coronavirus restrictions end. Weekly...
Pressure mounts in Algeria as calls for resumption of anti-regime protest intensify
18 June 2020: In this 12 minute podcast, Arezki Daoud, Lead Analyst at MEA Risk LLC and Editor of The North Africa Journal describes the background that is likely result in the resumption of the anti-government protests in Algeria in the weeks and months ahead. The...
Defense: Debate in Algeria over sending troops abroad
By Abdellah Cheballah - Could Algeria soon send troops from its army, the pillar of the regime, to join peace-keeping missions led by the United Nations or African Union? President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has urged a constitutional change that would allow deployments...
Algeria: Frightened by the likely resumption of protest movement, Algeria intensifies attacks on pro-democracy activists
Algiers, June 14, 2020 - Algerian authorities on Sunday arrested three activists from the "Hirak" protest movement, a human rights group said, in the second day of arrests targeting members of the group. Hakik Addad, Zoheir Keddam and Fodil Boumala, who had been...
Algeria Covid-19 Charts and Data
Cumulative cases of infection of the Covid-19 virus as of 10 June 2020 in Algeria reached 10,484, an increase of 117 from the previous day. The cumulative death toll is 724. Below are two interesting charts. Death toll from Covid-19 in Algeria: Evolution of...
Covid-19 update as of 7 June 2020
Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis as of 7 June 2020. More than 400,000 deaths The pandemic has killed 400,581 people worldwide since it surfaced in China late last year, according to an AFP tally at 1900 GMT on Sunday, based on official...
Consul of Morocco in Algerian city of Oran leaves Algeria after row over “enemy country” statement
Algiers, June 9, 2020 - A Moroccan diplomat at the centre of a diplomatic spat between Algiers and Rabat has left Algeria at the country's request, a spokesman for the presidency said on Tuesday. "The consul of Morocco has left the country at Algeria's request,"...
Insurgency: France claims it killed Al-Qaeda’s Droukdel, arrests ISIS commander
French forces have killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdel, in northern Mali, France's defence minister said. Droukdel was killed on Thursday near the Algerian border, where the group has bases from which it has carried out...
Opinion: Morocco and Algeria wasting their money on useless military hardware
Transcript: Opinion by Arezki Daoud: 4 June 2020: Just like Algeria has been doing, Morocco is spending the money it does not have to procure more military equipment it will never use and without major security logic. The country is facing a collapsed economy due to...
Algeria: Regime uses carrot against Hirak, with President hinting on a pardon for Tabbou and Benlarbi
Algiers, June 2, 2020 - Two main figures of Algeria's "Hirak" protest movement will soon be freed at the president's initiative, the leader of an opposition party said Tuesday. "President Abdelmadjid Tebboune assured me that he would use his constitutional...
Algeria: Uproar after death of child during exorcism session
A ten-year-old girl who died in eastern Algeria while undergoing faith healing appeared to suffer "blows and burns", a prosecutor said, sparking angry reactions online after the arrest of a man. The public prosecutor in Guelma, 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of the...
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