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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...
Will Covid-19 mark the end of kissing and hugging in the Mediterranean?
May 28, 2020 (By Isabelle Ligner and Isabelle Wesselingh, photo: Anastasia Vityukova) - To greet friends and acquaintances by kissing, hugging and shaking hands is considered part of the essence of Mediterranean identity. But the coronavirus pandemic has put an abrupt...
Algeria: Diplomatic row with France over TV documentaries (video)
May 28, 2020 (By Philippe Agret with Amal Belalloufi) - A documentary about Algeria's protest movement on French TV has sparked not just another diplomatic standoff between the North African nation and its former colonial power, but anger among protesters themselves....
Algeria maintains use of chloroquine despite signs of ineffectiveness
Algiers, May 26, 2020 - Algeria will continue to use the drug hydroxychloroquine against the novel coronavirus, a member of its scientific committee said, despite the World Health Organization suspending clinical trials of such treatments. "We've treated thousands of...
Algeria: Sonatrach’s CEO under fire for conflict of interest and nepotism as company faces dismal outlook ($)
Several Algerian media have reported that Toufik Hakkar, the CEO of Sonatrach, has been spending unusually high amount of time during this month of Ramadan with a business tycoon from his hometown of Batna, Hamza Guettai. Guettai owns Petrogel, a private company...
Algeria: Blind repression and worsening freedoms in Algeria
Algiers, May 20, 2020 - Algeria has sentenced three opposition activists to jail over Facebook posts, in what rights groups said Wednesday was the latest sign of increased repression after the coronavirus lockdown stifled a popular protest movement. Soheib Debaghi was...
Algeria: The return of the Saharan cheetah to the Hoggar Mountains
Algiers, May 20, 2020 - Naturalists in Algeria have filmed a Saharan cheetah, a subspecies listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List, for the first time in a decade, the national parks authority said. The animal was spotted in the Hoggar Mountains national...
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