Tag: Algeria

For the second time in less than a year, on Nov. 1 Algerians were summoned to voice their opinion about the way their country should be run. Once again, however, ...

Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: the 2020 U.S. presidential election campaign enters its final hours, Typhoon Goni hits the Philippines, and Slovakia conducts millions of coronavirus tests in one ...

Bouteflika‘s successor Abdelmadjid Tebboune, currently hospitalised overseas, has pitched the text as meeting the demands of the Hirak, a movement that staged vast weekly demonstrations for more than a year, ...

Algeria’s parliament has adopted draft constitutional reforms, an initiative of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune aimed at responding to the demands of the country’s “Hirak” protest movement. By a show of hands ...

My grandfather was arrested by the French in 1956. Or was it ’57? He was at home for lunch one day, as he was every day at noon. My grandmother ...

“It’s a very heavy verdict for Khaled Drareni. We are surprised,” lawyer and president of the Algerian League for Human Rights Nouredine Benissad told AFP. Drareni, 40, editor of the ...

The prosecutor at the Algiers court also called for Drareni’s two co-accused to be jailed for four years, as well as all three facing heavy fines and being stripped of ...

Halimi died peacefully a day after her 93rd birthday, one of her three sons, Emmanuel Faux, told AFP. “She fought to reach 93,” he added. Born into a modest family ...

EU diplomats on Tuesday agreed to take Serbia and Montenegro off the list of non-Schengen countries whose residents can travel to the EU, two diplomats told POLITICO. The decision to ...

Brussels wants to “build strong partnerships” with its partners in Africa to fight migrant smuggling, the EU’s home affairs commissioner said. Speaking to reporters in Brussels Monday after a videoconference ...