Algeria Bound

Culture: Tuareg flock to Algerian desert oasis for ancient festivalF

In a riot of colour, music and dance, thousands of Tuareg have flocked to the Sebeiba festival that marks the end of an ancient tribal feud and which once a year transforms an oasis town deep in the Algerian Sahara. The Tuareg are a semi-nomadic people of Berber...

Anti-migrant sentiment in North Africa turns into humanitarian disasterF

In the unbearable midday heat, a Libyan patrol near the border with Tunisia comes across a black African man collapsed on the reddish-brown desert sand. He is barely breathing, and officers try to revive him, gently, with a few drops of water on his lips. The man is...

Algeria: Dozens killed in raging wildfiresF

Algerian firefighters on Tuesday battled blazes that have killed 34 people across the tinder-dry north, destroyed homes and coastal resorts, and turned vast forest areas into blackened wastelands.  Witnesses described fleeing walls of flames that raged "like a...

Algeria reacts to Israel’s backing Morocco in Western Sahara conflictF

Algeria on Thursday denounced Israel's backing of Morocco's "claimed sovereignty" over the disputed Western Sahara region as a "flagrant violation" of international law. The Western Sahara conflict pits Morocco against Sahrawi separatists of the Algiers-backed...

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