The diplomatic crisis between Algeria and Mali, long simmering over border security and regional influence, escalated...
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Spain Targets Bribery in Algerian Public Works Scandal
Spanish prosecutors have requested significant prison sentences and heavy fines for politicians, business executives,...
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...
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...
Algeria cancels 4 July presidential election, a major victory for the Algerian people
By Arezki Daoud: 2 June 2019: The Algerian presidential election scheduled by the regime to take place on 4 July 2019...
Algeria: As Ramadan enters its last week, protesters maintain pressure on government, want radical change
Algiers, May 31, 2019 - Large crowds of Algerians on Friday took to the streets of the capital, where dozens were...
Algeria: Late rights activist Fekhar, victim of a ruthless regime, in his own words
The Algeria human rights activist and medical doctor, Kamel Eddine Fekhar speaks in this interview (in Algerian) of...
Algeria: Victim of judicial harassment, rights activist Kamel Eddine Fekhar dies in hospital
Algerian human rights activist and medical doctor, Dr. Kamel Eddine Fekhar, died on 28 May at a Blida hospital, nearly...
The Algerian crisis: Army chief General Gaid Salah stalls stability, rejects public call for transition period
Comment by Arezki Daoud: General Gaid Salah, the Algerian military chief who has taken over the leadership of the...
Algeria: A funny election charade
Comments by Arezki Daoud | 26 May 2019 | The regime in Algeria that is trying to move the country into an unw anted...
Algeria: How General Gaid Salah has become the main obstacle in the stability of Algeria
Hear this article or download the MP3 file here General Gaid Salah is now the direct target of the popular movement....
Algeria: Despite peaceful nature of the protest movement, police intimidate and seek to escalate tension
Algiers, May 24, 2019 - Algerian police on Friday threw up a tight cordon around a key protest site, arresting dozens...
Algeria: Police struggle to control the crowds in new Friday mass protest
Algiers, May 17, 2019 - Thousands of Algerians pushed through police tear gas in the capital Friday, to rally at the...
France’s Total to get Anadarko Africa’s assets: What are the challenges ahead?
The takeover of Anadarko by Occidental paves the way for France's Total to acquire Anadarko assets and projects in...
Deadlock in the Algerian crisis: the general vs. the people
The past days in Algeria were characterized by a continuation of the showdown between the anti-government protest...
Algeria: Unemployment riots in oil-rich Adrar
Algiers, May 15, 2019 - At least 24 police officers have been wounded in clashes with protesters rallying against...
Algeria: Defying the hardship of Ramadan and heat, the Algerian people return to the street to demand regime change
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: To their chagrin, the Algerian regime's hopes that the anti-government protest movement...
Algeria: Regime cracks down on the press, fires TV anchor for his positions
Algiers, May 9, 2019 - An Algerian state television presenter has been fired after slamming the media's role in...
Algeria: Central and local governments facing growing disobedience and rebellion, as social unrest escalates
The northwestern province of Sidi Bel Abbes is the mirror of what is occurring across the entire country as social...
Algeria: Military uses Algeria-made drones for lethal purposes in anti-insurgency campaign
Algeria: Discovery of weapons’ cache near border with Niger
Algeria: Fasting month of Ramadan not slowing anti-government protests
Algiers, May 7, 2019 - Thousands of Algerian students joined the first rally of Ramadan on Tuesday, pressing on with...
Energy: Total wants to acquire Anadarko’s Algerian assets ($)
French oil group Total announced this Sunday the signing of an agreement with the American Occidental Petroleum to...
Algeria: The events that led to the arrest of Saïd Bouteflika and two generals
The military investigating judge at the Blida military court on Sunday ordered the provisional detention of Athmane...
Algeria: Military court detains Bouteflika brother and two former Intelligence chiefs
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: Three notorious figures of the Bouteflika regime, men who can easily be identified as...
Algeria: Military uses Algeria-made drones for lethal purposes in anti-insurgency campaign near Tunisia border
In its first mention on using drones for lethal purposes, the Algerian Ministry of Defense said it used unmanned...
Algeria: Secretary General of the Presidency dismissed
The interim Head of State of Algeria, Abdelkader Bensalah, dismissed the Secretary General of the Presidency, Heba El...
Algeria: After getting fired in 2015 for issuing arrest warrant against former energy minister, Judge recalled to reopen the case
Fired on 21 September 2015 after having issued an arrest warrant against the former Minister of Energy Chakib Khelil,...
Algeria: Former PM and head of ruling RND party Ahmed Ouyahia faces court over graft
Algiers, April 30, 2019 - Former Algerian prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia was questioned on Tuesday in a widening...
Algeria: Graft court questions Finance Minister Mohamed Loukal
Algiers, April 29, 2019 - By Abdellah Cheballah: Algerian Finance Minister Mohamed Loukal was questioned Monday in a...
Europe’s rights court OKs first deportation from France of Algerian terror suspect to Algeria
Strasbourg, France, April 29, 2019 - Europe's top rights court on Monday said France could proceed with the expulsion...
Algeria: Employee of water company opens fire at protesters, injures 13
Algiers, April 28, 2019 - Thirteen people were wounded Sunday when shots were fired during a demonstration in eastern...
Algeria: Former police chief General Hamel summoned by court in corruption case
Algiers, April 28, 2019 - A former Algerian police chief once considered a pillar of the regime of ousted president...
Algeria: Tenth consecutive Friday of protest, pressure on regime maintained
Algiers, April 26, 2019 - Algerian protesters vowed Friday to keep up the pressure on the regime left behind by...
Algeria: Defense chief overshadows Interim President, takes center-stage in determining country’s future ($)
The political crisis in Algeria intensified this week with the judiciary taking exceptional steps to investigate and...
Algerian Islamist leader Abassi Madani dies in Qatar
Algiers, April 24, 2019 (AFP) - The founder of an outlawed Algerian opposition party that pushed for the creation of...
Algeria/Brief: CEO of Sonatrach fired
Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour, the Chief Executive of Sonatrach has just been fired. Interim president of the Algerian...
Algeria: Students maintain anti-government momentum
Algiers, April 23, 2019 - Thousands of Algerian students marched Tuesday through the capital calling for the overthrow...
Algeria: And the witch-hunt continues
The speed in which a number of former and current officials and business tycoons have been implicated into shady...
Algeria: Six controversial Governors fired, including unpopular wali of Algiers
Acting President Abdelkader Bensalah, on Monday, 22 April fired six walis (Governors) long considered controversial...