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Algerians Campaign To Save Treasured Songbird From Hunters

With its vivid plumage and sweet trill, the goldfinch has long been revered in Algeria, but the national obsession has also driven illegal hunting, prompting calls to protect the songbird.

International Business Times

Who were the winners and losers of African democracy in 2024?

In 2024, 18 elections took place on the African continent, from Senegal to South Africa, Algeria to Ghana, with the results an equal mix of democratic success stories and challenges still to overcome.

Radio France Internationale

Algerian social media influencer detained in France accused of calling for attacks

The French interior minister has announced the arrest of a social media influencer from Algeria who is accused of calling for attacks in France

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Mali accuses Algeria of fuelling Sahel insecurity by supporting Tuareg rebels

As Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger prepare to withdraw from the West African bloc Ecowas, reports show an increase in instability in the region – partly due to a lack of coordination in the fight against jihadism – with Mali now accusing Algeria of supporting Tuareg rebel groups.

Radio France Internationale

US-sanctioned Russian ship sinks in Mediterranean after explosion

The ship and its owner Oboronlogistika were sanctioned by the US in 2022 for links to the Russian military

The Independent UK

Gladiator II: a historian on the real north African kingdom of Numidia – and the men who ruled it

Gladiator II opens with a Roman fleet brutally laying siege to a city in the north African kingdom of Numidia. On the big screen we see ships set ablaze by pots of burning oil and defenders impaled by man-sized iron bolts. The so-called barbarian inhabitants are eventually enslaved and carted…

The Conversation

Algeria summons French ambassador over accusations of interference

Algeria's foreign ministry has summoned the French ambassador to reprimand him for what it said were efforts to destabilise the country, several Algerian media outlets reported on Sunday.

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Franco-Algerian writer Sansal held in Algeria on state security charges

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal – who was arrested in mid-November in Algiers – has been placed under a detention order for alleged threats to state security, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Algerian justice officials and authorities have still not commented on the case.

Radio France Internationale

Global outrage grows over Franco-Algerian writer's detention in Algeria

The ongoing detention of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in Algeria has ignited international concern amid demands for his immediate release as fears for his safety deepen.

Radio France Internationale

Rushdie, Ernaux and Soyinka among authors calling for release of Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal

Sansal was reportedly arrested on arrival in Algiers on 16 November, with French President Macron demanding information about his whereabouts

The Guardian - UK

Goncourt winner Kamel Daoud accused of exploiting war survivor’s story

Kamel Daoud, the Franco-Algerian author who recently won the Goncourt Prize for his novel Houris, is being accused by an Algerian civil war survivor of using her personal story without consent. The allegations, which include claims of breaching medical confidentiality, have sparked legal action in Algeria.

Radio France Internationale

Alarm In France Over Fate Of Detained French-Algerian Writer

Alarm grew in France on Friday over the fate of a prominent French-Algerian novelist detained in the country of his birth, with his publisher urging his immediate release and President Emmanuel Macron closely following the case.

International Business Times

How has the UNSC voted since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza?

The US vetoed a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution; here are all the other Gaza resolutions the Security Council voted on.

Al Jazeera

Author Kamel Daoud sued over claim he used life of wife’s patient in novel

Woman says French-Algerian writer’s prize-winning Houris uses her story as she told it to therapist Aicha Dehdouh

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Rachid Mekhloufi was more than a football star, he was a symbol of Algerian resistance

The death of football star Rachid Mekhloufi at the age of 88 has marked the end of an era. For more than half a century, he was an integral part of Algeria’s football landscape, becoming one of the country’s most loved and respected figures.

Radio France Internationale

Resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud's century of words and wars

Madeleine Riffaud's life was woven by struggle, writing and three wars – a century of resilience and resistance. The renowned French journalist, who fought the Nazis as a teenage Resistance fighter and later covered conflicts from Algeria to Vietnam, died this week in Paris at the age of 100.

Radio France Internationale

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif takes legal action over gender reports

Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who defied a row over her gender eligibility to win Olympic gold, is taking legal action over media reports about leaked medical records, the International Olympic Committee has said.

The Independent UK

Algeria opens book fair opens without winner of top French language literary prize

As one of the Arab World’s largest book fairs opens in Algeria on Wednesday, there is one conspicuous absence

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Two novels on impact of post-colonial conflict win key French literary awards

President congratulates Kamel Daoud and Gaël Faye for books responding to violence in Algeria and Rwanda

Radio France Internationale

African writers celebrated with prestigious French literary prizes

French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud on Monday won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel set during Algeria's civil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s. His main rival was Burundi-born Gaël Faye, who was Monday handed the prix Renaudot, another coveted prize.

The Independent UK

In Cyprus, officials from Algeria to Iraq train to keep WMD from crossing their borders

A small facility in Cyprus is hosting senior government officials from as far as Algeria, Iraq and Georgia for training by top U.S. experts to prevent the kinds of materials used to build weapons of mass destruction from crossing their borders

Al Jazeera

Jailed Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi freed after presidential pardon

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune pardons 4,000 detainees to mark 70th anniversary of the independence war with France.

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Algeria Pardons Journalist Jailed During Pro-Democracy Protests

Algeria grants pardon to journalist Ihsane El Kadi and 8 others critical of the government, marking a significant move towards reconciliation in the country.

Radio France Internationale

The night of rebellion that changed France and Algeria forever

On the night of 31 October 1954, a series of attacks across colonial Algeria marked the start of the Algerian War – a bloody conflict that would last eight years. Claimed by the newly formed National Liberation Front (FLN), the attacks signalled the beginning of Algeria’s push for independence from…

The Independent UK

UN extends mandate for UN peacekeepers in Western Sahara, with Algeria protesting over human rights

The U.N. Security Council has voted to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Western Sahara for another year Thursday with Algeria refusing to vote in protest at the resolution’s failure to include a reference to monitoring human rights in the disputed north African territory

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