Tag: Algiers
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on state visit to Algiers
Invited by his counterpart Abdelmajid Tebboune, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa made a state visit to Algeria this Friday, December 6. Arriving the previous evening at the head of a…
The Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal heard by the anti-terrorist prosecution of Algiers
Boualem Sansal was placed under arrest warrant in Algeria: this is what his lawyer said in a press release shared this Wednesday, November 27. The Franco-Algerian writer, arrested in Algiers…
Boualem Sansal, Kamel Daoud… Or the “hostage taking” of Paris by Algiers – L’Express
For months, the phone has been ringing in vain in Algiers. On the southern shore of the Mediterranean, no one dares to answer when the name of a French journalist…
Arrest in Algiers of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal
In Algeria, the writer Boualem Sansal has been in police custody for almost a week in the premises of the security services in Algiers while waiting to be presented before…
France: Algiers denies having frozen its commercial relations with Paris – L’Express
Algeria denied this Thursday, November 7, “erroneous and totally unfounded” information according to which it had decided on “restrictive” measures to trade with France, reacting to a statement by a…
Morocco: Algiers imposes a visa on Moroccans – L’Express
New diplomatic tensions between Algiers and Rabat. The Algerian government has decided to “immediately reinstate” the visa for “all foreigners holding a Moroccan passport”, the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
How the far left (and Rima Hassan) remains stuck on the nostalgia of “Red Algiers” – L’Express
Between two rounds of suffocating legislative elections, in early July, the rebellious MEP Rima Hassan chose to spend a few relaxing days in Algeria. Far from the stress of the…
A large Nigerien ministerial delegation in Algiers
Relations between Algeria and Niger are warming up after a cold spell, which began with the coup against President Mohamed Bazoum in July 2023. Niger’s Prime Minister, Ali Mahamane Lamine…
Economic relations between Paris and Algiers threatened? – L’Express
By supporting Morocco’s project for autonomy in Western Sahara, France has irritated the Algerian authorities. The quarrel over this former Spanish colony is old: its annexation by Rabat in 1975…
11 years later, the trial of the Tiguentourine terrorist attack opens in Algiers
The trial into the terrorist attack on the Tiguentourine gas site near In Amenas in southeastern Algeria is due to open this Monday in Algiers. Four defendants will appear for…