Kabylia and several other Algerian cities lived on Friday (August 8, 2025) another “Black Day” of brutality and violent crackdown on peaceful protesters by the heavily armed security and military forces. The Algerian authorities, which fear the return of the Hirak movement that ousted Bouteflika regime, deployed thousands of anti-riot forces to prevent popular rallies […]
The U.S. State Department has slammed again the continued serious human rights abuses committed by Algerian authorities in 2021 against vocal critics, pro-democracy militants, journalists and civilians. In its annual report on global human rights situation, the State Department denounced arbitrary arrests and detention of political prisoners, citing credible reports of torture, inhuman and degrading […]
The Tutsi-led rebels, known as M23, took control of Kanyabayonga, a strategic town in the east of the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, where different armed groups operate. Kanyabayonga has been at the heart of clashes between DRC forces and the M23, since the latter took up arms in 2021. The M23 fighters were […]
