Algeria Bound

Algeria-Morocco Competition for Regional Influence Shifts to Economic Affairs

Opinion By Arezki Daoud: Up until now, enemy brothers, Algeria and Morocco have been trying to impress and disrupt one another to ascertain their influence in the North Africa and Sahel regions through sabre-rattling, despite the two countries boasting the exact same...

Germany to get Algerian gas for first time

Germany is to get Algerian gas with the signing on 8 February of a contract tying gas producer Sonatrach to Leipzig-based gas trader VNG Handel & Vertrieb GmbH (VNG H&V). The German company is a wholly owned subsidiary of VNG AG. VNG is the first German...

Podcast: The Sahel is the Next Big Geopolitical Crisis where Foreign Meddlers are Congregating

Transcript: The Sahel is now clearly the next big event in Africa's geopolitics. After the complete destruction of Libya, the same foreign powers that paid for the killing of a nation are now shifting their attention to the Sahel, establishing the bases of another...

Mali junta ends Algiers Agreement

The ruling junta in Mali announced, on Thursday 25 January, the "end, with immediate effect", of the Algiers agreement signed in 2015 with the pro-autonomy and independence groups based in the north of the country. Long considered essential for stabilizing the...

France-Algeria: Emmanuel Macron stuns President Tebboune

Aug 4, 2024

Algeria and France are now going through another diplomatic crisis, culminating with the recall of Algeria's...

Morocco: King Mohammed VI gets France’s support on Western Sahara, pardons some jailed journalists and activists

Jul 30, 2024

King Mohammed VI is celebrating 25 years on the throne. The event was celebrated nationwide in Morocco, and in a...

Flurry of Major Infrastructure and Energy Projects in West Maghreb

Jul 24, 2024

North Africa is experiencing record temperatures, and yet, despite the debilitating climate, infrastructure projects...

Algeria: Forced election will destabilize the Mediterranean region

Oct 4, 2019

By Arezki Daoud - 4 October 2019: The Algerian political crisis is in its 33rd week with no sign of any of the...

Algeria: Military command plays its last card, political crisis reaching its climax

Oct 1, 2019

By Arezki Daoud - 1 October 2019: This is make-or-break moment for Algerian military chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah...

Algeria: Military court sentences former political and intelligence chiefs after only a one-day trial

Sep 25, 2019

Algiers, Sept 25, 2019 (AFP) - An Algerian military court has sentenced the brother of former president Abdelaziz...

Algeria: The rise and fall of a criminal- Head of disgraced FLN party, Mohamed Djemai is now in jail

Sep 19, 2019

Mohamed Djemai, the recently imposed head of the disgraced nationalist party FLN, and member of parliament...

Algeria: Frightened of popular revolt, military junta chief Gaid Salah bans access to Algiers

Sep 19, 2019

By Amal Belalloufi - Algeria's military has ordered police to block protesters from outside the capital entering...

Algeria: Military junta arrests opposition activist Fodil Boumala

Sep 19, 2019

Algiers, Sept 19, 2019 - An Algerian court on Thursday ordered the pre-trial detention of a leading figure in protests...

Algerians respond to military junta: thanks but no election!

Sep 17, 2019

Algiers, Sept 17, 2019 - Protesters massed in the Algerian capital on Tuesday to demand the cancellation of a...

Algerian regime challenges pro-democracy movement, announces election date

Sep 16, 2019

Algiers, Sept 15, 2019 - Algeria is to hold a presidential election on December 12, five months into a political...

Algeria: Military kidnaps popular opposition figure Karim Tabou, says he “demoralizes the army”

Sep 11, 2019

Opposition leader Karim Tabou was forcefully taken away on Wednesday, 11 September in early afternoon by unidentified...

Algeria: Justice administration wants immunity of notorious member of parliament Tliba lifted

Sep 9, 2019

Baha Eddine Tliba, the billionaire member of the Algerian parliament representing the eastern city of Annaba appears...

Thousands of Aigle Azur passengers stranded as Air France makes offer to acquire collapsed airline

Sep 9, 2019

Sept 9, 2019 - French flag carrier Air France on Monday offered to snap up its much smaller rival Aigle Azur after the...

Algeria: Purge in the military could undermine Algeria’s defensive effectiveness

Sep 5, 2019

Mass arrests have taken place in the ranks of the Algerian military in recent weeks, reliable sources said. Senior and...

Algeria: Amid row with army chief Gaid Salah, interim President’s absence from the presidency heightens speculations about his health

Sep 5, 2019

The fate of the Interim President Abdelkader Bensalah is sparking all sorts of speculation considering the ongoing row...

Algeria: With the deepening political crisis, here’s the most likely roadmap in the mind of army chief Gaid Salah

Sep 5, 2019

The chief of the Algerian military command, General Gaid Salah, has been the biggest opponent of a transition period....

Algeria: Junta chief General Gaid Salah insists on the impossible

Sep 2, 2019

Algiers, Sept 2, 2019 (AFP) - Algeria's powerful army chief called Monday for a vote to elect a successor to ousted...

Algeria: Heightened tension inside the Algerian military

Aug 29, 2019

Even before the official start date of the Hirak protest movement on 22 February 2019, the Algerian military...

Algeria: Risk analyst firm MEA Risk warns of crisis reaching climax in Algeria this fall

Aug 29, 2019

A MEA Risk assessment of the Algerian political stalemate warns that the crisis in the North African nation could...

Algeria: No-backing down, Algerians maintain pressure on government, insist on regime change

Aug 23, 2019

Algiers, Aug 23, 2019 - Algerians on Friday were back on the streets demanding an overhaul of the political system as...

Algeria: Another corrupt former Justice Minister arrested for alleged criminal activity

Aug 23, 2019

Algeria's former justice minister Tayeb Louh was Thursday placed in preventative detention on allegations of abuse of...

Algeria: Regime ignores calls for smooth political transition, insists on its own unpopular roadmap

Aug 22, 2019

In a message published this week by the state news agency APS, Interim head of state Abdelkader Bensalah repeated the...

Spying on their people with Huawei technology

Aug 20, 2019

Kampala, Aug 16, 2019 - Uganda and Zambia on Friday denied a report that employees of Chinese telecom giant Huawei had...

Algeria: Months after starting their movement, Algerian people determined to oust illegal regime

Aug 20, 2019

Algiers, Aug 20, 2019 by By Amal Belalloufi and Aymeric Vincenot: Algerians launched an unprecedented protest...

Algeria: court issues arrest warrant on Khaled Nezzar, ex-General accused of alleged mass killings in the 1990s

Aug 6, 2019

Algiers, Aug 6, 2019 - An Algerian court has issued an arrest warrant against a former defence minister and army...

Algerian people continue to protest, considering civil disobedience to up pressure on military regime

Aug 5, 2019

(By Amal Belalloufi with Aymeric Vincenot) - Algerians descended on the capital in huge numbers Friday and called for...

Algeria: Military command keeps war veteran Lakhdar Bouregaa in prison for his political views

Aug 1, 2019

Algiers, Aug 1, 2019 - Algeria's judiciary has refused to provisionally release a well-known independence war veteran...

Algerian military chief Gaid Salah rejects demands for appeasement, wants his rules only

Jul 30, 2019

Algiers, July 30, 2019 - Algeria's powerful army chief Tuesday ruled out accepting any pre-conditions to launching...

Governance in disarray: the criminal syndicate that ruled and continues to rule Algeria

Jul 19, 2019

By Arezki Daoud: The political crisis in Algeria has brought to the fore the extent of the state of the bankruptcy in...

Algeria: Arrest of former industry minister Youcef Yousfi paves way for probes on major corruption cases in energy sector

Jul 15, 2019

Commentary by Arezki Daoud: Algeria has been plagued by widespread corruption ever since Bouteflika became president...

Algeria’s military command selects Conservative Islamist supporter as new parliament chief

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