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Algeria: Shortage of cooking oil provokes long queues, stampedes

Cooking oil has become a rare commodity in Algerian stores forcing people to wait in long queues before stores and to strict rationing. Stampedes were seen across the country as people panic while waiting for this consumer good. Algerian officials, including President Tebboune, have long attempted to hide the sun with a sieve by denying […]

Algeria tops North Africa cyber vulnerability, Kaspersky

Kaspersky Laboratory has released a research report entitled “IT Threat Evolution Q1 2014” which focused on internet security threats that the countries are facing. The company is well known for its potentials in fighting against viruses. In the report, North African countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco were among those highly affected by […]

Egypt: Discovery of 2,300-year-old urban areas

Egypt has announced the discovery, in the city of Alexandria, of the remains of “residential and commercial” areas dating back to at least the second century BC, and the fossil of a new species of amphibian whale dating back 43 million years in Fayoum, south of Cairo. In a statement posted on Facebook, the Egyptian […]