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Following six weeks of protests, Algeria’s ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said he will resign before April 28, the date his fourth term ends. The 82-year-old, who has been in power for 20 years, will ensure “continuity of the state’s institutions” before he quits, according to APS news agency. The announcement comes after the incumbent President […]
Algerian authorities have expelled Reuters’s reporter Saturday for covering a demonstration against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his regime staged by tens of thousands of Algerians. The reporter, Tarek Amara from Tunisia was detained and then flown to neighboring Tunisia after he covered the March 29 demonstration; one of the protests regularly staged since February 22 […]
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika might step down from power Tuesday, April 2, two days after he named a caretaker government that will lead the country through transition. Local television networks, Ennahar and El Bilad, Sunday released the information shortly after Bouteflika named a caretaker administration to be led by Noureddine Bedoui, the recently appointed Prime Minister. […]
Nearly 1 million Algerians staged the biggest demonstration yet for the sixth successive Friday, demanding the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the ruling elite including military chief Ahmed Gaid Salah. Protesters chanted anti-regime slogans few days after Gaid Salah announced the president is unfit to rule under Article 102 of the constitution. Under the […]
The chairman of Algerian business leaders’ forum has resigned from his position few days after he was banned from leaving the country and put on a blacklist of people denied trips abroad by the army. Ali Haddad in a letter said he was quitting in order to preserve the cohesion and durability of the organization. […]
Around 100 Algerian top business tycoons, including the leader of Algeria’s business forum, have been put on a blacklist and denied exit from the country amid the gradual decaying of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s regime. The army Chief of Staff, Ahmed Gaid Salah reportedly instructed security forces at airports and other exit points of the country […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has voiced hope that “all Member States” support the United Nations’ efforts aimed at reaching a final solution to the Sahara issue. “We hope that all Member States support the UN’s effort”, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, Stéphane Dujarric, said Tuesday in his daily press briefing in New York. […]
The Algerian army, the kingmaker in the Algerian political order, has finally stated the obvious by declaring “Bouteflika unfit to lead,” four weeks after millions of Algerians started pouring to the street putting pressure for the infirm President to step down. The call of Algeria’s army chief, Lt Gen Ahmed Gaed Salah, for the removal […]
Russia has surprisingly shied away from supporting the authoritarian status quo in Algeria as it seeks to secure its long term interest in the North African country, notably in terms of armament contracts. It was not a coincidence that Deputy Prime Minister Ramtane Lamamra paid his first international visit to white wash the regime to […]
The UN Secretary-General has announced in a recent report that the budget of the UN mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, will be increased by 7.6 percent to improve ground and air surveillance operations conducted by the mission. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres who also called on MINURSO observers to be more vigilant, has closed the […]