Algeria Headlines

Unemployed Youth Threaten to Put End to Own Lives in Algeria’s Boiling South

Dozen disenchanted youths in the southern Algerian city of Ouargla made headlines when they threatened to set themselves on fire following the example of Tunisia’s Mohamed Bouazizi. The deplorable living conditions in Ouargla and other oil and gas producing regions in southern Algeria stand in stark contrast to the well-off north of the country where […]