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Thousands took to the streets of Tizi Ouzzou in response to the call by the Movement for the Independence of Kabylie (MAK), on the occasion of the commemoration of the Amazigh Spring. Thousands of protesters carried banners and the blue, yellow and red flags of the independent Kabylie state while chanting slogans demanding the self-determination […]
A man aged 30 allegedly belonging to the Islamic State group (IS) Wednesday blew himself up at El Haria, 35 km from Constantine, in a confrontation with security forces, reports say. Security forces were rushed to the region after getting tips-off of the presence of two terrorists. The 30-year old terrorist detonated his subside belt […]
The run-up to the May 4th parliamentary election is being marred with a gender controversy after some political parties left the images of female candidates on their official campaign posters blank. The female candidates were represented with an avatar wearing a Hijab while the face was left blank in white. The Independent High Authority for […]
Russia and Algeria are to meet up this Tuesday in the Algerian capital for the second consultations on the cooperation against terrorism established by both countries last year, reports say. Announced by the Algerian foreign ministry, the meeting will be a platform to ponder over regional and international cooperation against terrorism, to address hotbed conflict […]
Around 100 members of the Separatist Movement have joined ranks of the Islamic State group (IS) in Libya and in Sahara desert, head of Morocco’s BCIJ (Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation) Abdelhak Khiame, told France24. Suspected for ties with terrorist organisations, the separatist movement’s connection with IS is a bombshell and puts Morocco’s security under […]
Speaker of the Lower House of the Moroccan Parliament, Habib El Malki, welcomed the draft report submitted by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to the Security Council calling for an immediate retreat of the Polisario militias from the buffer strip and warning of the degrading humanitarian conditions prevailing in Tindouf. “Antonio Guterres expressed concerns […]
The Algerian-backed separatist movement, the Polisario, gave its initial agreement on the appointment of former German President Horst Köhler as Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General to the Sahara in place of US diplomat Christopher Ross. Moroccan news website, Le360, reported that an official Polisario source said that the UN Secretary General’s proposal for […]
The Algerian government released its 2030 vision for economic development, dubbed “New Growth Model,” warning of the unsustainability of the current subsidies system and urging economic diversification to reduce dependency on hydrocarbons. “In all sectors of the public service (electricity, gas, water, rail transport, telecommunications), tariffs are kept at levels lower than the cost of […]
Battered by the oil price slump, the underdeveloped banking sector in Algeria sees new financing sources in Islamic finance to tap into the huge informal economy and catch up with Morocco and Tunisia, which have already allowed such participatory banks to operate. As it edges towards offering banking services to suit more religiously conservative investors, […]
After Angela Merkel and Hassan Rouhani, the Algerian leader has failed to meet up with French Premier Bernard Cazeneuve last Thursday though the French leader was scheduled to meet up with the ailing Algerian leader glued to a wheel-chair since 2013, reports say. The media and sources close to the Algerian presidency denied that President […]