Algeria Bound

Algerians were unable to access social media accounts on Sunday as students sat national exams in the North African country where authorities are cracking down on cheating. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp were inaccessible, an AFP journalist...

Algeria's government has adopted draft constitutional revisions aimed at responding to the demands of the country's "Hirak" protest movement, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has said. "The proposal is fully in line with the requirements of modern state building and...

(Photo: Poet Mohamed Tadjadit) Two jailed activists from Algeria's anti-government "Hirak" protest movement have been on hunger strike for over a week to protest their incarceration, one of their lawyers said Saturday. Mohamed Tadjadit, nicknamed the "Hirak poet",...

The Algerian regime is gripped by fear that the anti-government Hirak movement reignites. Mass arrests have accelerated across the nation. The moment the sound of discontent is heard and more than a handful of people congregate, the political police unleash violence...