Algeria Bound

Court of appeal upholds lower court's 12 year prison sentence against ex president's "secret daughter" A prominent Algerian businesswoman, allegedly an illegitimate child of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was jailed for 12 years on corruption charges on...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday approved a 2021 budget which foresees a deficit of around 14 percent of GDP, the presidency said, as the oil-dependent country grapples with economic woes.  Algeria's economy has been clobbered by tumbling crude...

Algeria ends the year 2020 with 1,878 critical incidents, down 35.4% from 2,909 in 2019, according to MEA Risk LLC. Critical incidents are defined as events that have an impact on the stability of a region, subregion within a country or an entire country. The figure...

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returned to Algeria Tuesday after a two-month absence in Germany, where he received treatment for Covid-19, ending a period of uncertainty in a country facing a health, political and economic crises. "It is hard to be far from one's...