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Algeria’s National Assembly on Wednesday elected Mouad Bouchareb, 47, as new speaker by 320 votes with one absentee. Mouad Bouchareb will now replace Saïd Bouhadja who is accused of alleged mismanagement and “inability” to lead. The disputed Speaker adamantly refused to resign despite a series of decisions announced by the FLN party. Bouhadja claims that […]
Algerian Louisa Ighilahriz, a prominent resistance figure, has announced her resignation from the upper house of parliament, citing her opposition to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plan to run for a fifth term in office in 2019. “I refuse this because he is not the actual ruler. Other people are ruling in his name,” she told Algerian […]
In a sign of a frail social peace, Algeria is on the brink of a new language war as Amazigh population in the Kabylie announced the boycott of the Arabic language at school and in the administration in response to the rejection of their language in other provinces. Many students in Algerian regions rejected learning […]
Algerian authorities have put a ban on the wearing of niqab, a full-face veil, at workplace across the country, over difficulties to identity faces behind the veil. Under the decision, made by Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and announced Thursday, governors, ministers and other public authorities shall ensure that the ban is implemented in public work […]
The UN Fourth Committee adopted without a vote a resolution reiterating support for the UN-led political process to settle the Sahara issue after Morocco protested at keeping the artificial dispute on the agenda of the Committee. Moroccan permanent representative said it is an anomaly to list the Sahara issue on the decolonization agenda of the […]
The crisis is deepening in Algeria wherein political leaders and military generals are fighting for power as the country’s aging and long-serving president is preparing to run for an unprecedented and controversial fifth term in office in 2019. Ahead of the upcoming rocky transition of power amid growing social woes and resentment, some Algerian deputies […]
Five top Algerian generals have been dismissed of their functions this week after they stood before justice on corruption charges, local Algerian media said. The major generals include three former heads of military regions, a former gendarmerie head and the Defense Ministry’s financial services chief, local media outlets said. They all face charges of “illicit […]
Mauritania has put an end to commercial anarchy at the Algerian-Mauritanian border, when it imposed as of October 9, customs duties on all products entering Mauritania from Algeria. After the draconian security measures that led to the total closure of the Algerian-Mauritanian border, declared a prohibited military zone in July 2017, economic measures have just […]
A purge of long serving military officials in Algeria has cast a shadow on an opaque regime where an ailing president braces for a fifth term amid a silently brewing power struggle between rival clans within the regime. In August, four of Algeria’s six regional military commanders were let go, along with five of the […]
The UN has decried and reiterated its call on Algeria to immediately halt summary expulsions of African migrants, as authorities in the North African country continue to round up and expel thousands to Niger in harsh desert climate. “These collective expulsions from Algeria to Niger are in utter violation of international law,” Felipe Gonzalez Morales, […]