A video of Abdelkader Bensalah appearing in a supplicating posture and as if “reporting back” to Vladimir Putin has gone viral in Algeria. Abdelkader Bensalah is seen struggling to speak confidently and
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The Algerian people have come out on social media and publicly to show their support for EU Human Rights sub-commissioner Marie Arena, after she publicly expressed her solidarity with the pro-democracy demonstrators
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At least two young people were killed Wednesday night in Oued R’hiou, in the wilaya of Relizane, in what appears to be a police blunder, report several sources. The killings come the
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The acting head of state, Abdelkader Bensalah, summoned on Sunday the electorate for the presidential election, set for December 12, 2019. This follows the suggestion by the army’s chief, Ahmed Gaid Salah,
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Increasingly cornered by the popular uprising, the army’s higher command has decided to lock up anyone it deems a threat to it’s authority. The latest victim of this rise in the repression
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Attentive social media users noticed how the taxpayer-funded channel, ‘Établissement national de télévision’ (ENTV), was using the same interviewees on separate occasions, passersby supposedly picked at random in the street. As part
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An open letter signed by a number of civil society actors and members of the Algerian diaspora, condemns what the Algerian people perceive as a lack of coverage of the large protests
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In recent weeks, the Protestant Church of Algeria (EPA) has recorded a series of closures of its places of worship in Algeria, especially in Kabylia. The authorities have closed five establishments serving
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Police have been deployed in large numbers in Algiers on Friday morning before the 24th large weekly demonstration against the regime, following the refusal of the army to bow to the demands
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The Algeria Press Service (APS) – a government agency largely considered to be a mouthpiece of the authorities – quoted today King Felipe VI as saying and reaffirming “his confidence in the
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