Five civilians were killed and three others were wounded in a roadside bomb in eastern Algeria today, the defence ministry in Algiers has revealed. The homemade bomb exploded as...
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News Four Algerians were sentenced to six months in prison yesterday for insulting the president and spreading false news, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported. Yasser Kadiri, Said Zegar, and Khelil Kheyi, were...
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News Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, returned to Germany on Sunday to complete his treatment for COVID-19. Tebboune had travelled to Germany a few months ago to receive treatment, and returned to Algeria at the...
A former Algerian prime minister has admitted selling gold bars on the black market, Algerie Presse Service (APS) has reported. Ahmed Ouyahia, 68, received the gold in his official...
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News Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has sacked the transport minister and the CEO of the country's flag carrier Air Algeria, according to the Presidency, Anadolu reports. A presidential statement said...
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News A high-level US delegation arrived in Algeria on Wednesday to discuss bilateral cooperation, the Western Sahara file and the situation in Libya and the Sahel. The delegation includes Air...
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Moroccans are grappling reluctantly with their country's shocking level of normalisation with Israel. They have organised sit-ins, and a petition to thwart the deal, while weighing the steep toll...
An Algerian court yesterday sentenced a supporter of the Hirak protest movement to three years in prison and fined him for publishing political cartoons and memes on Facebook. Walid...
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News The Algerian army's discovery of €80,000 ($98,200) in terrorist hideouts has revealed the serious threat posed by France's payment of ransoms in exchange for the release of hostages. On...
An Algerian court yesterday sentenced former Prime Minister in ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's government, Ahmed Ouyahia, to seven years in prison on corruption charges. Local media reported that the...
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News The official website of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has used a map which shows Morocco included with the Western Sahara region. The publication of the "undivided" map...
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US An Algerian military appeals court on Saturday acquitted three top officials who were jailed in 2019 during mass protests, Reuters reported quoting sources close to the officials. The three...
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News An appeal court in Algeria on Thursday sentenced the alleged daughter of ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to 12 years in prison after she was convicted in corruption cases. The...
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News Moroccan Prime Minister, Saad-Eddine El-Othmani, yesterday accused Algeria of "recruiting its official media apparatus with the aim of spreading false news" about the situation in the Western Sahara." El-Othmani...
The Chinese embassy in Algeria protested against an "offensive" US embassy statement on the Uyghur issue, saying it was constitutes "an interference in China's internal affairs." On Sunday, Washington's...
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returned to Algeria on Tuesday after two months in a German hospital being treated for COVID-19 during a period of political and economic crisis, reports Reuters....
Algerian MP Amira Selim has proposed a bill which prohibits the promotion of normalising ties with the Israeli occupation on mass media and alternative media, Safa news agency reported yesterday. In...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates and the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Algeria yesterday announced Algeria's readiness to receive Palestinian students in the first week...
Head of largest Algerian Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP), Abderrazak Makri, slammed the Moroccan Justice and Development party as "Zionist" and its head, Prime Minister Saad Eddine...
Amnesty International yesterday called on the Algerian authorities to halt the deportation of "seven Yemeni asylum seekers". "Seven Yemeni asylum seekers face imminent deportation from Algeria, which is considered...
Speaker of the Algerian People's National Assembly Slimane Chenine reaffirmed his country's firm position on the Western Sahara issue and "the people's right to determine their fate." Chenine pointed...
Tunisia and Algeria have prevented an Israeli airplane from using their airspaces on its way to the Moroccan city of Rabat, forcing it to take an indirect route through...
Moroccan Prime Minister Saadeddine Othmani has said that his country is "always ready to open the border with Algeria without anything in return." Relations between the two North African...
Morocco has said it is ready to permanently open its border with neighboring Algeria, Anadolu Agency reports. Morocco is "ready to solve the issue of closed border when the Algerians...
UNESCO adds couscous to the list of the world’s intangible cultural heritage
French citizens yesterday denounced accusations that their country's army was involved in a case of fake social media accounts which were revealed by Facebook. French daily L'Opinion published an article referring...
Moroccan King Mohammed VI has sent a message to the President of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, congratulating him on his recovery from coronavirus, a Moroccan news agency reported. In his...
Algeria has said that Paris paid a ransom to release a French hostage who was kidnapped by a terrorist group in northern Mali, amid France's denial of the allegations....
Jordan and Algeria announced more coronavirus fatalities early today as they continued efforts to contain the disease, Anadolu Agency reports. Jordan's Health Ministry said 42 people died in the...
Algeria's Minister of Communication has criticised Morocco for normalising relations with Israel by insisting that, "Mutual recognition between occupiers is useless and will not stand up to the will...
There have been several demands for an official move-in Algeria against "suspicious meetings" held by French ambassador Francois Gouyette, described as an intervention in local affairs, at a time...
Algerian parties have criticised the tripartite agreement between Morocco, the US and Israel, considering it a political, diplomatic and ethical stain. Meanwhile, the Moroccan people have expressed their rejection...