The Latest Breaking News from Algeria

Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met on Wednesday with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who is on an official visit to Kuwait. The meeting saw good-friendly conversations, which reflected the depth of the well-established relations between the two countries. The two leaders discussed means to support and boost the…

Algeria’s oil and gas reserves are likely to embolden a regime that is cracking down on civil society

Sixty years after the end of the Algerian war of independence, the French Senate has validated a bill formalising an apology to Algerian Harki soldiers who fought on behalf of the French colonial army. It paves the way for compensation for thousands of family members and descendants who were forced…

Sixty years after the end of the Algerian War, the French parliament adopted on Tuesday a bill to ask reparation to the Harkis, allowing their descendants to receive compensation for the way they were treated at the end of the war in 1962. The Harkis were the Algerian Muslims who…

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Tuesday that the government would introduce youth unemployment benefits as the country struggles with a jobless rate of almost 15 percent. The payments will be made "to preserve the dignity of young people", Tebboune said in an interview broadcast on Algerian television. The allowance of…

An Algerian court on Monday sentenced in absentia former energy ministry Chakib Khelil, who served under former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to 20 years in prison on corruption charges, local media reported. The Sidi M’Hamed court in Algiers also fined the longtime former minister, who served for half of Bouteflika’s 20-year…

Algeria's Sonatrach oil company said it had signed an agreement with the Niger petroleum ministry to share production in Niger's Kafra region, according to a Sonatrach statement. Sonatrach International Petroleum Exploration and Production, a subsidiary of the Algerian company, signed the agreement in Niger's capital. Sonatrach's works in Kafra cover…

France's National Assembly on Wednesday adopted a bill enabling the Harkis – Muslim Algerians who fought on the side of France during the Algerian war of independence –and their descendants to receive compensation for the way they were treated at the end of the war in 1962.

The double against Fulham in the FA Cup took the Algerian’s tally to seven goals in six City games