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A Journalist in Algeria has been arrested for covering protests. Rabah Kareche has been sentenced to eight months in prison for his reporting on protests, his newspaper Liberte said. Mr Kareche was handed a one-year-term, with four months suspended. He has already been in prison since his arrest in April …

At least 42 people are now known to have died as a result of more than 100 wildfires in Algeria. The most intense have taken hold in forested mountains of the Kabylie region, where 25 soldiers have been killed fighting fires. Algeria’s President Abdelmajid Tebboune has sent his condolences to …

Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the Algerian President has called early elections. In a live television address on Thursday night, he announced the dissolution of the lower house of parliament a year ahead of schedule and said there would be a government reshuffle within the next 48 hours. He also ordered the release …

Algeria is set to receive its first doses of Covid-19 vaccine on Friday and begin immunisation on Saturday, the communication minister has said. The country will receive the Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and says other doses from China and India are expected later. The elderly and health care workers are …

Many Tunisian local media are reporting that President Kais Saied‘s office received a suspect parcel, prompting the authorities to open an investigation. Nobody was harmed and the letter did not find its way to the president, the AFP news agency adds, quoting Tunisia’s presidency. Local reports suggest that the parcel …

Hospitalized on October 28 in Germany for having contracted covid-19, Algerian president appears in the evening of December 29 on television. Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s plane had landed at Alger a few hours earlier. At the airport, President Tebboune was greeted by several senior Algerian officials, including Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad and …