Gas-flush Algeria to ramp up defence spend in 2023
Algiers – Algeria plans to allocate nearly $23 billion to defence next year, more than double that set aside... Read more
23 Nov, 2022
Police arrest dissident Algerian writer: family
Algiers – Algerian police arrested one of the country’s most prominent writers, Lazhari Labter, in Algiers on Sunday, according... Read more
22 Nov, 2022
Exiled activist sought by Algeria says has UN refugee status
Tunis – A prominent Algerian activist seeking asylum in Tunisia said he had been granted refugee status by the... Read more
20 Nov, 2022
Algeria to help Cuba as energy shortages bite
Algiers – Algeria said on Thursday it would restart energy supplies to Cuba and donate a solar plant to... Read more
18 Nov, 2022
Algeria signs gas supply deal with Slovenia
Algiers – Algeria’s state energy firm Sonatrach on Tuesday signed a three-year deal to sell gas to Slovenia via... Read more
16 Nov, 2022
Algeria shuts TV station after sex scene scandal
Algiers – Algerian authorities have ordered the closure of a private TV station after it broadcast scenes deemed “offensive”,... Read more
16 Nov, 2022
Algeria jails ex-Sonatrach head for 15 years for graft
Algiers – An Algerian court on Tuesday handed a 15-year prison sentence to the former head of state energy... Read more
16 Nov, 2022
Algeria car crash kills 16, mostly migrants
Algiers – Sixteen passengers died and another three were injured, mostly sub-Saharan Africans, on Monday when two pickup trucks... Read more
15 Nov, 2022
Algeria’s Bouteflika-era union chief jailed for graft
Algiers – A former Algerian union head was sentenced Monday to a decade in prison for corruption, his lawyer... Read more
15 Nov, 2022
Sun-soaked North Africa pushes for cheap energy
Tunis – Solar panels glint in the sun on a Tunisian lagoon, part of a long-delayed drive to harness... Read more
14 Nov, 2022
