First Independent Mena Newspaper
Algerian Minister of Communication Tuesday sent a last warning to offshore media broadcasting on the Algerian territory to abide by country’s communication regulation or see their programs shut down, reports say. Out of 45 overseas television channels broadcasting in Algeria, only four channels namely Ennahar TV, Echorouk TV, El Djazairia TV and Dzair TV are […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday urged Algeria to quickly enforce the deportation agreement signed between the two countries so that Algerian migrants denied asylum could return home. According to press reports, Angela Merkel is getting concerned by Algiers’s foot-dragging to execute the deportation of Algerian nationals who have been denied asylum. Media also report that […]
Algerian Prime Minister Monday rejected claims of some prominent public figures suggesting that the country’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has lost control of the country. During a meeting with investors in Blida, Abdelmalek Sellal stressed that ailing President Bouteflika was in full control of the country’s management. He added that the President is ‘daily’ and ‘step […]
Algeria would be facing a challenging period in the upcoming years as the low hydrocarbon prices will affect the country’s income. The statement was not made by a political or economic analyst but by the Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal himself, at a meeting with the academic community on Sunday. He said the collapsing hydrocarbon […]
Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has urged educational institutions to fight extremism saying“no to religious extremism in our universities.” At a meeting with the Dean of the Said Hamdine Faculty of Law in Algiers and the Minister of Higher Education and scientific research Tahar Hadjar, the Prime Minister called universitystudents to stay away from extremism as he reminded them that “our religion is Islam but we are […]
French President François Hollande on Monday paid a short visit to Algeria where he discussed with ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal a number of security-related issues with focus on the fight against terrorism and the chaotic situation in neighboring Libya. During the seven-hour visit to the North African country, the two […]
Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal’s said his four-day official visit to China has ended with “satisfactory” results with feelings that it will lead to a “new impetus” in the ties between the two countries especially in the economic sector. Algeria wants to diversify its economy and is hoping that it could learn from the Chinese experience […]
At the opening ceremony of the two-day National Conference on External Trade taking place at the Palais des Nations in Algiers, Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said the drastic fall of oil prices gives “a valuable opportunity” to the county “to review the situation of its trade to radically and progressively end dependence on hydrocarbons.” Algeria’s […]
Protests that started as a social issue in Algeria are slowly making their way to the political platform as pressure builds up against the government. Demonstrations started late last year in the southern oasis town of Ain Salah where a pilot project is being held but it has now spread to several cities across the […]
Algiers and London have renewed their will to build a long term economic partnership between them at the end of the Algeria-UK Investment Forum in London. Around 500 British businessmen attended it. A closed door meeting between the Prime Ministers of the two countries also dwelled on areas of mutual concern such as security, terrorism […]