Algeria's role as Spain's top natural gas provider is back in the spotlight. After a significant two-year diplomatic...
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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 Officially Joins ASEAN
Algeria just made a big splash on the global stage, officially joining ASEAN as a partner (What is Asean: An...
Algeria: TV presenter Nadia Madassi resigns after forced to read Bouteflika letter
Algiers, March 4, 2019 (AFP) - An Algerian state television presenter resigned Monday because she was angry that she...
Algeria: Regime insists on fifth term, people push against
Algiers, March 4, 2019 - Algerians on Monday dismissed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's promise to quit early if...
Algeria says candidate with former French citizenship ineligible to run for president
Algiers, March 4, 2019 - When an Algerian businessman was ruled ineligible to stand in April's presidential election,...
Algeria: Anti-regime protests intensify, as hundreds of thousands of people return to the street to oppose status quo
Update2: Algiers, March 1, 2019 - Several people were hurt Friday in violent clashes between police and protesters in...
Algeria police arrest dozen journalists who were protesting against censorship
Algiers, Feb 28, 2019 - Algerian police arrested Thursday a dozen journalists protesting "censorship" of coverage of...
Algeria’s dangerous political gridlock
Algiers, Feb 28, 2019 - By Amal Belalloufi and Aymeric Vincenot: Mounting frustration at their ailing president's bid...
Algeria: With growing political unrest over fifth mandate for Bouteflika, regime operatives seek appeasement, avoid provocative language
There is a sense in the Algerian regime that the intensity of the current protests over President Bouteflika’s run for...
Algeria: With Bouteflika assured to win, his Prime Minister tells protesters the “ballot box will decide”
Algiers, Feb 25, 2019 - Algeria's prime minister on Monday insisted voters would determine if ailing President...
Algeria: Police use teargas to stop anti-Bouteflika protester in the capital
Algiers, Feb 22, 2019 - Clashes broke out in the Algerian capital Friday between security forces and demonstrators...
France says it killed al-Qaeda Maghreb commander Abu Hamame
Feb 22, 2019 - French armed forces have killed a top jihadist leader in an air and ground ambush in Mali, the...
Algeria: Fighter jet crashes during routine exercise, two crew killed
Feb 21, 2019 - An Algerian fighter jet has crashed during an overnight training exercise, killing its two crew...
Algeria: More protests against Bouteflika’s run for fifth term ($)
The North Africa Journal - February 19, 2019: An increasing number of Algerians are pushing back against a fifth...
Algeria: Security chiefs issue threats against opposition, get blatantly involved in politics ($)
The North Africa Journal: February 19, 2019: “Enemies from within, ungrateful and those who feed on daydreams and...
Algeria: National security boss fired
Algiers, Feb 13, 2019 - President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sacked Algeria's police chief on Wednesday, the interior...
Algeria: Some facts to know
Algiers, Feb 10, 2019 (AFP) - Algeria, whose president Abdelaziz Bouteflika will seek a fifth term in April, gets most...
Algeria: Bouteflika allegedly confirms he will run, opposition calls it “irresponsible”
Ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared he will seek a fifth term in April elections in a message published by...
Algerians brace for a ‘President for Life’
Algiers, Feb 10, 2019 - Algeria's ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is to seek a fifth term in April elections,...
Algeria: Energy officials signal willingness to reduce subsidies
Minister of Energy, Mustapha Guitouni, noted the desire of his department to target the subsidy of electricity prices,...
Agriculture: Plague wreaks havoc on Algeria’s small ruminants ($)
Small ruminants breeders in Algeria are in distress, with the continued spread of the small ruminant plague, as the...
Algeria: Mourad Medelci, Constitutional Council Chief and ally of the President, dies of illeness
The president of the Constitutional Council of Algeria, Mourad Medelci, 76, died early on 28 January after battling...
UN conflict resolution technique: more conferences, and another one on the Western Sahara
By Arezki Daoud - 30 January 2019: The UN does a lot of good things, including humanitarian support to people in...
Urban Issues: The stray dogs and wild boars of North African cities
Opinion by Arezki Daoud - January 29, 2019: There could be as many as 15 million stray dogs roaming the streets of...
Algeria: Leader of Islamist MSP party to run in presidential poll
Algiers, Jan 26, 2019 (AFP) - Algeria's main Islamist party, the Movement for the Society of Peace, said Saturday it...
Maghreb: Cold and snow claim lives in central and eastern Maghreb
The North Africa Journal - 26 January 2019: A cold snap and floods killed two in Tunisia and two others in Algeria....
Algeria: Courts review cases of jailed journalists
The North Africa Journal - 28 January 2019: Algerian courts have ordered the release of two journalists who were...
Algeria: TV producer Youcef Goucem dies after setting himself ablaze
Algiers, Jan 24, 2019 (AFP) - An Algerian television producer died from severe burns Thursday more than two weeks...
Algeria’s presidential election: and now the big circus
The North Africa Journal - January 24, 2019: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has convened the electoral committee last...
Algeria: More discoveries of war-grade weapons in southern provinces, two insurgents killed
The North Africa Journal: Threat and security assessment and tracking company MEA Risk LLC said the Algerian...
Algeria: Unknown retired general Ali Ghediri to run for president
Algiers, Jan 19, 2019 - A retired Algerian general on Saturday became the first candidate to announce a run for...
Algeria: A presidential election without one single candidate
The North Africa Journal - By Arezki Daoud - 18 January 2019: This is the kind of stuff you only see in the Guinness...
Energy: Algeria cuts oil production by 24K barrels a day
The North Africa Journal - 14 January 2019: Algeria has cut oil production between 24,000 and 25,000 barrels per day...
Violence in Algeria’s football world
Algiers, Jan 13, 2019 - More than 300 people were injured in football-related violence during the first four months of...
Algeria wants Berber mausoleums from antiquity as UNESCO World Heritage site
Tiaret, Algeria, Jan 14, 2019 - Dating back centuries, Algeria's pyramid tombs are unique relics of an ancient era but...
Algeria’s former and current military chiefs dragged into political infighting
The North Africa Journal - January 9, 2019: The uncertainty over the presidential election in Algeria has created new...
Algeria’s illegal migration problem and “national security.”
Algiers, Jan 4, 2019 (AFP) - Algeria's interior ministry on Friday defended moves to expel dozens of migrants as a...
Algeria: Infrastructure to get mimimum spending in the next 12 years
MEA Risk's Shield & Alert: Nov 19, 2018: In the light of the flash floods which swept large cities such as...
Algeria’s diplomatic friction with France and Switzerland
The North Africa Journal - November 19, 2018: Algeria is having some diplomatic kerfuffle with France and Switzerland...
Algeria’s other military campaigns
The North Africa Journal - 8 November 2018: MEA Risk LLC says that for the period of 1 to 7 November 2018, there were...
King of Morocco proposes direct talks with Algeria: Unlikely to happen this year
The North Africa Journal - Nov 8, 2018: The fate of the contested Western Sahara territory and a regional leadership...
Algeria: Movement against reelection of Bouteflika makes waves after police disrupt first protest
The North Africa Journal - August 16, 2018 - By Hakim Briki: Mouwatana, a movement created in June 2018 to dissuade...