Algeria Bound

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...

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....

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...

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...