Algeria Bound

Algeria’s president Tebboune still missing in action: power vacuum in the makingF

A month after Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was hospitalised in Germany and tested positive for coronavirus, uncertainty about his health is fuelling questions about the country's leadership. Tebboune, who is 75 and a heavy smoker, was admitted to hospital...

Algeria: Appeals court ridicules lower court for issuing 10 year jail sentence over opinion on religionF

An Algerian appeals court Wednesday slashed to one year a 10-year jail term handed to opposition activist Yacine Mebarki, convicted of "offending Islam", his lawyer said. The court upheld rulings against Mebarki on charges including "offending the precepts of...

In North Africa, hospitals are in a state of warF

Covid assaults the MENA region Iran, Jordan and Morocco have recorded thousands of new Covid-19 infections in recent days, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that lockdowns could not stamp out the pandemic. "More than 60 percent of all cases in the...

Algerian court orders retrial of former regime leaders, paves way for their releaseF

Algeria's supreme court on Wednesday said the brother of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and two ex-intelligence chiefs convicted of conspiracy against the state would be retried after appeals. The once mighty Said Bouteflika was long seen as the real power...

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