Victory was claimed on Sunday by Algeria’s main moderate Islamist party the Movement of Society for Peace (MSP) in the…
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Political campaigns for Algeria’s impending legislative elections ended Tuesday. Algerians are gearing up for the June 12 elections to elect…
Top African police officials met in Algiers this month to ratify legal documents related to the creation of Afripol, the…
Algeria’s former head of counter-terrorism will appear in a military court in the country’s first trial of a high-ranking officer…
The President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika has replaced the long-standing head of Algeria’s military intelligence agency, in his latest move…
Twenty years ago, Islamists shot dead a Roman Catholic brother and nun as they helped young Algerians prepare for exams, the first of 19 Christians murdered during the country’s devastating civil war. But members of the small religious community insist…
Gunmen killed 11 Algerian soldiers in an ambush overnight, the defence ministry said on Sunday, in the first attack of its kind since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won a fourth term. The attack took place in the restive Kabylie region east of Algiers…
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has criticised Algerian authorities over delays in issuing visas for foreign journalists to cover the country’s presidential election on Thursday. Many journalists were “issued visas late in the day accompanied…
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s campaign chief promised on Sunday that constitutional changes would create a “broad democracy” if the ailing incumbent wins re-election next month. Former prime minister Abdelmalek Sellal gave scant details…
ALGIERS, Algeria, September 16, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird meets Ramtane Lamamra, Algeria’s Minister of…