Algeria Bound

Western Sahara: Polisario leader Brahim Ghali expected to be reelected after ongoing Congress meetingF

The Polisario movement, which seeks independence in disputed Western Sahara, started meeting Friday for leadership elections in the shadow of mounting tensions between host Algeria and Morocco, which controls most of the territory. More than 2,200 members of the...
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Algeria: Policeman kills boy during drug bustF

An Algerian policeman shot a teenage boy who later died when a gang tried to stop officers during the latest in a string of drug busts, police said Tuesday. Officers searching a house in the Baraki suburb of the capital Algiers were "surprised" by young men trying to...
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Podcast: Sahel and North Africa week in review 7 Jan 2023F

Greetings to our second episode of Week in Review and a quick summary of what we are tracking in the Sahel and in North Africa. Today is Saturday, the 7th of January 2023. This past week was somewhat subdued in the region largely due to the year-end holiday season and...
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Algeria makes baby steps to stimulate tourism sector, but just in the SaharaF

Algeria will allow foreign tourists heading to its vast desert south to obtain visas on arrival, part of efforts to "promote tourism in the Sahara", the interior ministry announced Wednesday. In a statement, it said that "foreigners heading to the south of the...
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