First Independent Mena Newspaper
Several Algerian villages in the central and eastern regions of the North African country, member of the OPEC, have been isolated by snow, adding more misery to the Algerians who are already suffering from military crackdown, soaring prices and deteriorating living conditions. According to latest weather forecasts, the conditions will get much worse in the […]
Year after year, the movement for the self-determination of the Kabylie region (known by its French acronym MAK) gains ground among the population of the restive towns and cities east of the capital Algiers. On January 12, hundreds responded to the MAK call by taking to the streets of the mountainous cities, such as Tizi […]
Algerian authorities have no longer the financial resources to buy social peace, hence cracks are appearing in the oil-producing country, says Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir in an analysis on the latest riots rocking Algeria. “The opacity of the system that governs Algerians since independence in 1962 has further thickened with the illness of their […]
Algeria’s Defense Ministry has published on its website that it has killed a “terrorist chief” in an ambush in the Kabylie region, around 110 kilometers east of Algiers. The Military stopped short of naming the terrorist chief but described him as a “leading terrorist responsible for many crimes.” Local media has claimed that the militant […]
More than a dozen anti-Bouteflika protesters have been arrested by the police ahead of a campaign rally in Tizi-Ouzou, in the Berber region of Kabylie east of the capital of the National Liberation Front (FLN). Dozens of students were angry with the 77 year old incumbent president’s desire to bid for a fourth term in […]
Back in 2012, Issad Rebrab was listed as a potential candidate to Algeria’s presidential elections initially scheduled for April 2014 and press reports had then said that the man had already set up a campaign team made up of former cabinet members, businessmen and media figures. Last week, after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika suffered a stroke […]
A website dedicated to the work and thought of Mohammed Arkoun, the Algerian thinker, philosopher and renowned scholar of Islam, who died in 2010, was launched last week in Casablanca by the foundation bearing his name. The site of the “Mohammed Arkoun Foundation for Peace between Cultures” is a free online library of over 230 […]