Algeria Bound

Algiers, July 15, 2020 - A former car industry boss who swiftly amassed riches under Algeria's ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison on corruption charges. In the country's fourth major post-Bouteflika era corruption...

The Algerian authorities arrested singer Siham Japonia after she was accused of "attacking the symbols of the Revolution." The arrest came after a court issued a warrant early Tuesday following her release of a video of a hospital in Oran that had no staff. The singer...

Algiers- The North Africa Journal - 15 July 2020:  [Photo: Fall from grace. The photo shows former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia attending the recent burial of his brother. He was in prison and granted the right to attent the funeral with heavy security detail]    The...

Algiers, July 14, 2020 - An Algerian appeals court Tuesday reduced a journalist's jail term to 15 months over Facebook posts deemed to support anti-government protests, his lawyer said. Djamel Toubal, 47, had been sentenced on June 18 to a two-year prison term. "The...