European Parliament’s (EP) vote today could stop the export of dangerous surveillance equipment to rights-abusing governments, according to a coalition of international NGOs. The vote, on European Union’s (EU) export control regime for dual-use items, [ More … ]
Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune yesterday held a consultative meeting with heads of governmental and private sector organisations, as well as the largest trade union in the country to contain a crisis between the two [ More … ]
The United Nations’ refugee agency has urged North African neighbors to provide safe passage to dozens of Syrians who are stranded in a border zone between Algeria and Morocco. The United Nations’ refugee agency on [ More … ]
Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Wednesday appointed a new head of government, replacing Abdelmalek Sellal in the wake of parliamentary polls Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Wednesday appointed a new prime minister to replace his confidant Abdelmalek [ More … ]
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has formally requested the Movement for the Society of Peace join the next government, the head of the party said. “I met with Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal yesterday [Monday], after we [ More … ]
Algeria’s National Liberation Front secures majority in national assembly, but loses quarter of seats in Thursday’s vote. The party of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and its coalition ally have won a clear majority in parliamentary [ More … ]
Apathy has overtaken this year’s elections in Algeria as memories of electoral fraud and government corruption hang over the event. Algerians headed to the polls in parliamentary elections on Thursday but the mood has been [ More … ]
The case of Syrian refugees stranded on the border between Algeria and Morocco continues to cause controversy. For the Minister in charge of Moroccans Residing Abroad and Immigration Affairs, Abdelkrim Benatiq, these refugees are not [ More … ]
UNSMIL chief Martin Kobler has praised Algeria’s role in promoting a Libyan political deal . Speaking in Algiers, Kobler said that Libyans were grateful for the recent tour of their country by Abdelkader Messahel, Algeria’s [ More … ]
A total of 955,426 voters of the national community abroad are called to go voting as from Saturday to elect their representatives at the People’s National Assembly, as part of the legislative elections of 4 [ More … ]
Morocco has accused Algeria of expelling 55 Syrian migrants across the countries’ shared border and summoned Algeria’s ambassador to criticize it for “inhumane behavior”, in the latest row between the North African rivals. Moroccan ministry of [ More … ]
Algeria’s minister for Maghreb, Arab and African affairs, Abdelkader Messahel, was in eastern Libya today for meetings with Khalifa Hafter and House of Representatives (HoR) President Ageela Saleh. The meeting with the HoR chief, in [ More … ]
Algeria’s foreign exchange reserves still exceed US$ 100 billion, announced Wednesday the Governor of the Bank of Algiers Mohamed Loukal. Since late February 2017 and until now, foreign exchange reserves exceed US$ 100 billion, affirmed [ More … ]
Algeria and Ethiopia were working to take the economic cooperation to the “level of excellence,” Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ramtane Lamamra said Wednesday. Following a meeting with Ethiopian Foreign Minister Workneh Gebeyehu, Lamamra said [ More … ]
The second day of campaign of the 4 May legislative elections was marked by the detailed presentation by the political party leaders of their programs, outlining their proposed solutions to the citizens’ concerns. The Workers’ [ More … ]
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