Algeria’s Rai music makes UN cultural charts
Algiers – Raucous, expressive and revolutionary: Algeria’s Rai music took its place on the United Nations’ list of intangible... Read more
2 Dec
Algerian police release dissident writer
Algiers – One of Algeria’s most prominent writers, Lazhari Labter, said on Tuesday that he had been set free,... Read more
30 Nov
Algeria sentences scores to death over forest fire lynching: media
Algiers – An Algerian court on Thursday sentenced 49 people to death over the lynching of a man falsely... Read more
25 Nov
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
