Algerian lawyers held on Wednesday a one-day strike across the country’s courts in opposition to new taxes approved by the General Budget Law of 2020. This comes in response...

The rapporteur of the committee of experts charged with formulating proposals for the Algerian constitution amendment, Walid Laggoune, announced yesterday in Algiers that the committee has officially started its...

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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune yesterday setup a panel of experts to amend the constitution giving more powers to the parliament and consolidating the judiciary’s independence. The Algerian presidency announced...

The Algerian prime minister yesterday dismissed the general managers of the Algerian Public Television Company (EPTV) and the National Publishing and Advertising Agency (ANEP) only a few months after...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune yesterday received Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Algiers and discussed bilateral relations as well as regional developments. Cavusoglu also met with the Algerian Prime...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday officially invited Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to attend a conference organised by Berlin to find a solution to the Libyan crisis. Algerian state television...

Head of Libya’s UN-recognised government, Fayez Al-Sarraj, is set to arrive in Algeria today for talks on the Libyan crisis. During his one-day visit, Al-Sarraj will meet with Algerian...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas on Friday visited the new Algerian ambassador to Lebanon, Abdel-Karim Al-Rakaybe, Safa News Agency reported. Al-Rakaybe received the delegation, headed by its representative...

The newly inaugurated Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune told Al-Sarraj a political solution is needed to keep Libya unified

Middle East Monitor takes a look at some of the biggest stories from the Middle East and North Africa in 2019

Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Saturday named a university professor and former diplomat as prime minister as he builds a new government to handle political unrest and a looming...

Millions of Algerians cast their votes on 12 December and chose 74-year-old former Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune as their country’s first freely-elected President since independence from France in 1962....

Thousands of Algerians gathered on Wednesday for the funeral procession of the country’s powerful army chief, who fought for independence from France as a young man and this year...

Algeria’s powerful army chief, who masterminded the state’s response to mass protests this year, died suddenly of a heart attack on Monday, and a likely successor quickly emerged from...

Demonstrations broke out in several Algerian cities, demanding radical change for the 44th Friday of the popular movement, as a result of the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected...

The newly-elected President of Algeria, Abd El Majid Tebboune, has said that the Palestinian issue is a constant of the foreign policy of the Algerian state. Tebboune added yesterday,...

Algeria is preparing to inaugurate Abdelmajid Tebboune who will become the first president who did not participate in the War of Independence. Tebboune, who won the presidential elections a...

An Algerian activist in the demonstrations of what is called Al Hirak–or movement–Sofia Bellman has broadcasted a video clip in which she demanded that her husband divorces her after...

Moroccan King Mohammed VI congratulated Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on his election and called on him to open a new page in the two countries’ relations based on mutual...

The Algerian Movement of Society for Peace stressed that Algeria is still in need of the National Consensus Initiative that the movement launched in July 2018. The movement said...

The deep state seems to have defeated the popular movement in Algeria, which was on the streets for over 40 weeks staging peaceful demonstrations calling for the ousting of...

Algerian security forces have carried out a massive detention campaign on Friday, against protesters rejecting the presidential elections. Protesters chanted slogans against the new president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, a former...

Algeria’s new president faces the country’s biggest political crisis in decades, a hostile economic climate and attacks on his legitimacy after winning an election with low turnout opposed by...

'We have toppled Bouteflika, and we will topple all the system's men. We won't give up'

This will be the first election since former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced out after a two-decade-long rule in April.

Mass protests this year in Algeria, which holds a presidential election on Thursday, have caused the biggest political crisis since the end of its 1990s civil war that killed...

Algeria holds a presidential election on Thursday which protesters say offers no real choice and will keep in power the ruling hierarchy they have been trying to oust in...

The Algerian Movement of Society for Peace (the largest Islamic party in the country) announced on Sunday that it would not support any of the candidates for the presidential...

The Algerian judiciary demanded to hear Said Bouteflika, brother of the ousted Algerian president, on the third day of the trial Bouteflika refused to answer the questions addressed to...

Algeria’s National Independent Authority for Elections (ANIE) announced on Monday that the five presidential candidates would participate in a television debate on Friday ahead of the elections scheduled for...

The Algerian judiciary has postponed the unprecedented trial involving two prime ministers, several former ministers and businessmen of the regime of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who are currently in...