Algeria Bound

Algerian human rights activist Fatiha Briki has been detained by authorities and no official reason has been given for her arrest, her family and a prisoners' rights group said Monday. Briki, a retired university teacher and a member of prisoners' rights group CNLD,...

The most most hated political party in Algeria, the FLN, “wins” assembly elections Algeria's National Liberation Front (FLN) party won weekend parliamentary elections with a significantly reduced number of seats and with the country's lowest ever turnout at 23...

Quiet on the media front After reading the AFP dispatch, I spent some time searching for a US Africom press release or statement of sort, and to my surprise not much can be found. No big text, no photos, no video, except for the content that was published months ago...

And now what? By Arezki Daoud: President Tebboune has had his election and it turned out to be a disaster. The man was warned by his own political police not to run at this stage, as the people were not ready. They begged him to postpone it, or else the country’s...