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Algeria Rebounds as Spain’s Primary Gas Supplier as Bilateral Trade Spikes
Algeria's role as Spain's top natural gas provider is back in the spotlight. After a significant two-year diplomatic...
French President Wants to Suspend Visa-Free Travel for Algerian Diplomats
French President Emmanuel Macron has requested that the government suspend visa exemptions for Algerian diplomatic and...
Algeria: With the deepening political crisis, here’s the most likely roadmap in the mind of army chief Gaid Salah
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
Arezki Daoud's comment: The Algerian national assembly has a new speaker. It was supposed to be another nationalist...
Algeria: Two more Bouteflika operatives in jail over corruption
The former head of ousted Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's party was placed in provisional detention Sunday...
Algeria: Police repression against peaceful protesters intensifies
Algiers, July 7, 2019 - Algerian police said Sunday they had opened an investigation after a video circulated online...
Algeria: Millions of Algerians mobilize for 20th week, demanding ouster of illegitimate regime
Algiers, July 5, 2019 - Thousands of people protested for a twentieth consecutive week in Algeria's capital on...
Algeria: Regime looking to insert Trojan horse in the protest movement
Commentary by Arezki Daoud: Here is yet another delaying tactic. General Gaid Salah has mandated Interim President to...
Podcast: Algerian military leaders in state of panic, pushing for violence
the Algerian crisis Algerian military leaders in state of panic, pushing for violenceThe Algerian military has lost...
Algeria: Another Bouteflika operative forced to resign as speaker of lower house
Algiers, July 2, 2019 - The speaker of Algeria's lower house of parliament resigned Tuesday, an official told AFP,...
Algerian journalist beaten, humiliated after arrest covering demos
Algiers, July 1, 2019 - A journalist arrested last week as he covered Algeria's weekly anti-regime demonstration said...
Algerian military regime arrests war veteran Lakhdar Bouregaa for his political opinion
Algiers, June 30, 2019 - Algerian authorities have arrested a well-known veteran of the war of independence against...
Algerian regime seeks to intimidate and scare, but Algerians continue to protest peacefully
Algiers, June 28, 2019 (By Abdelhafid Daamache with Aymeric) - Protesters thronged the heart of Algeria's capital on...
Algeria: Regime of General Gaid Salah arrests 18 for carrying Berber flag, increases repression of peaceful protesters
Algerian authorities on Sunday arrested 18 people who had brandished the Berber minority flag during an...
Algeria: Businessman Hassen Arbaoui detained in corruption probe
Algiers, June 20, 2019 - Algerian authorities on Thursday detained a third automobile tycoon as part of an...
Algeria’s military command pushing for more instability
By Arezki Daoud: The deconstruction of the Algerian regime of the past two decades is underway. At least the public...
Podcast: Algeria’s political transition update as of 18 June 2019
In this podcast, Arezki Daoud of MEA Risk and The North Africa Journal provides an update on the state of the stalled...
Algeria: General Gaid Salah issues threats against those who don’t agree with him
Algiers, June 18, 2019 - Military chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah said Tuesday that those who oppose the army were...
Algeria: Sovac caught in a complex web of corruption
An Algerian public prosecutor has officially communicated the facts in the corruption case related to the SOVAC...
Algeria: Business tycoon Ali Heddad jailed six months over illegal passport possession
Algiers, June 17, 2019 - Algeria's top businessman Ali Haddad, a key supporter of ousted president Abdelaziz...
Algeria: Despite arrests of former senior government leaders, protest movement wants more, strong show of force this Friday
Algiers, June 14, 2019 (By Abdellah Cheballah with Aymeric Vincenot) - Demonstrators rallied in the Algerian capital...
Algeria: Another former Prime Minister, Abdelmalek Sellal detained for corruption
The North Africa Journal - June 13, 2019: In another unprecedented move, judicial authorities tied to the Supreme...
Algeria: Former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia sent to Harrach prison in major corruption case
Algeria’s highly unpopular former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia has been incarcerated on Wednesday, 12 June under a...
Algeria: Oligarch Mahieddine Tahkout under arrest
Algiers, June 10, 2019 - Algerian authorities on Monday detained an automobile tycoon linked to ousted president...
Algerians reject regime’s offer to talk, call gesture a “masquerade”
Algiers, June 7, 2019 (By Abdelhafid Daamache and Aymeric Vincenot) - Hundreds of demonstrators packed the centre of...
Algeria: Another empty speech likely to further galvanize the protest movement
By Arezki Daoud - 6 June 2019 - Algeria’s Interim President, Abdelkader Bensalah, looking old and sick, just like...
Algeria: complete political and economic freeze, regime has no creative ideas to get out of the chaos
Opinion by Arezki Daoud | June 4, 2019: The man in charge by default in Algeria, army chief General Gaid Salah, gave...
Algeria: Business tycoon Ali Heddad could face up to 18 months in jail for forgery
Algiers, June 3, 2019 - An Algerian prosecutor requested Monday that a business tycoon linked to ousted leader...