Algeria Bound

MEA Risk LLC: Algeria is urgently looking for international suppliers who can immediately sell large stocks of chloroquine, which is used by Algeria to treat patients who contracted the Covid-19 virus. Algeria did not wait for the results of clinical trials taking...

Algiers, April 6, 2020 - An Algerian court on Monday sentenced another leading figure in the country's anti-regime protest movement to one year in jail, keeping up a crackdown on activists despite the coronavirus crisis, a support group said.   Abdelouahab Fersaoui,...

Journalist Meriem Chorfi, Editor-in-chief Mouhoub Rafik, and Mohamed Laamari, the Publisher of Algerian newspaper Sawt Al Akher were placed on Thursday, 2 April under judicial control. The move is the last step before they are dragged into a court, most likely the one...

Algiers, April 5, 2020 - An Algerian court on Sunday sentenced to eight months in jail a journalist who had provided images of months-long anti-government protests to foreign media, a prisoners' support group and a non-government organisation said.  Sofiane Merakchi,...