Algeria News Club

Blinded by hostility to Morocco, Algeria’s military rulers and their civilian puppets have taken a series of unilateral decisions from closing borders to cutting diplomatic ties with Rabat and halting gas supplies. But, these measures- intended to hurt Morocco- have backfired at Algiers with a spill over to sports as...

Near the end of October, Malawi police made a harrowing discovery: a mass grave containing the freshly buried bodies of 29 suspected migrants from Ethiopia. Authorities suspect they were being ferried through a well-beaten smugglers’ route to South Africa, Africa’s wealthiest economy. The unfathomable uncovering of a mass grave in...

16th Saharawi Congress in the Dajla refugee camp in the city of Tindouf, Algeria. Photo: Michele de Mello / Brasil de Fato In the middle of the Sahara desert, half a million people resist and fight for their liberation. Under the slogan “intensify the armed struggle to expel the invader...

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY It has been a 33-year-old tradition of China's foreign ministers making their first overseas trip to Africa at the beginning of every new year. Accordingly, this year, too, China upheld the tradition, with newly appointed Foreign Minister Qin Gang paying an eight-day visit to Africa. From Jan...

Exports to Arab states hit an all-time high between January and the end of September last year. In total €2.2bn of goods and services were sent to Arab countries over the nine-month period, up 23% on the same period last year. Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE...

Aymen Mahious became the match-winner for Algeria in successive African Nations Championship (CHAN) matches when they beat Ethiopia 1-0 on Tuesday to reach the quarter-finals.Backed by a passionate 40,000 crowd at the Stade Nelson Mandela in Algiers, the hosts won the match thanks a 52nd-minute goal from the forward.Mozambique neglected...