A damaging heat wave is sweeping across North Africa in the wake of the release of the IPCC findings on climate change. Some experts in Africa say the panel hit the right tone and the onus to act is on the continent too. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report outlines the severity […]
Firefighters, soldiers and civilian volunteers are battling blazes in forests across northern Algeria which have now claimed 69 lives. France is sending two Canadair firefighting planes and a command aircraft to help get the forest fires under control while citizens organise their own aid efforts for victims. Some 69 fires, spread across 17 provinces, were […]
25 soldiers and 17 civilians have died so far in more than 100 wildfires in Algeria, authorities said on Tuesday, adding that some of the fires had criminal origins. More than 100 fires have been reported across 17 Algerian provinces, the country’s official APS news agency reported on Tuesday evening. The most intense fires are […]
GKSD responded to a call for assistance from His Excellency Ahmed Boutache the Ambassador of Algeria to Italy, with 12 palettes of PPE and oxygen concentrators. In Algeria, from 3 January 2020 to 6:44pm CEST, 4 August 2021, there have been 175,229 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 4,370 deaths, reported to World Health Organization. In the context of continuing support and solidarity between Italy […]
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Algerian counterpart Ramtane Lamamra have underlined strong deeply-rooted cooperation ties between Egypt and Algeria in different domains. The ministers’ remarks came at a press conference held on Saturday following their talks in Cairo, where Lamamra is on his first visit to Egypt. They also underscored good coordination between the […]
Algeria’s long-dominant National Liberation Front (FLN) won weekend parliamentary elections, but with a significantly reduced number of seats and with the country’s lowest ever turnout at 23 percent, the electoral board said Tuesday. The vote was boycotted by the long-running Hirak protest movement and followed a string of arrests of opposition figures, with police deploying […]
Algiers — A total of 641,187 pupils will sit, as of Tuesday, for the intermediate education examination for the school year 2020-2021. The number of pupils registered for this examination is 641,187, 625,223 of whom are schooled (292,767 boys and 332,456 girls) and 15,964 are non-schooled candidates (11100 boys and 4864 girls), according to the […]
The African Union (AU) held its first summit in 2002, establishing itself as a new international organisation. It also launched a new vision for African security cooperation. Nearly two decades later, it is worth reflecting on the process that produced that vision. It may have something to teach us about international negotiations. The vision is […]
Algeria held its first parliamentary election since a 2019 uprising. But the women-led Hirak movement boycotted the vote, citing repression and “old guard” networks. Algeria’s election authority head Mohamed Chorfi said late on Saturday that the turnout in the country’s parliamentary elections had reached 30.2%. The vote, earlier in the day, was the first legislative […]
The average turnout in the legislative elections neared 30.20% nationwide at the closure of polling stations at 08:00 p.m., announced Saturday evening the Chairman of the Independent National Authority for Elections (ANIE) Mohamed Charfi. See also: Legislative polls: Results might be announced after 96 hours A 25% turnout was reported in 5 provinces and 20%-25% […]
Algerian voters are casting their ballots Saturday in early parliamentary elections, after two years of political unrest, although pro-democracy activists have called for a mass boycott. The vote is the first parliamentary elections since Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted in 2019 after 20 years as president, facing protests over corruption, joblessness and repression. Pro-government parties have […]
Cairo — Commentators reported low turnout Saturday in parts of Algeria, which was holding its first parliamentary elections since a 2019 popular uprising swept away veteran President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika. Some political parties called on voters to boycott the election, while the government urged them to “fulfill their electoral duty.” Nevertheless, Mohammed Sharafi, head of […]
Algiers — The campaign for the June 12 legislative elections comes to a close on Tuesday. Over the last 20 days, party leaders and representatives of independent lists multiplied meetings and community activities to explain their programmes to voters. All candidates have agreed on the “crucial” importance of the coming elections for the country’s stability […]
Algiers — President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune affirmed that the Algerians are waiting for a “total recognition of all crimes” perpetrated by the colonial France, pointing out that the fact of recognizing its crimes is a form of repentance. He cited the “beginning of the colonization, with the extermination, for 40 years, of entire […]
Brahim Ghali left Spain for Algeria where he has been taken to a military hospital to continue his recovery from COVID-19. Algeria’s president was quick to pay him a visit. The leader of the Western Sahara pro-independence movement, Brahim Ghali, landed in Algeria on Wednesday after leaving Spain where he had been receiving treatment for […]
Algeria has partially reopened its air borders from 1 June for the first time in over 15 months of the Covid crisis. Many members of France’s large Algerian diaspora are desperate to return home but, with only two flights each week, run by state-run Air Algérie, many are frustrated and angry. Air Algérie confirmed on […]
Algiers — Political party and independent candidates running for the legislative elections of June n 12th on Saturday, the 10th day of the election campaign, called for the building and strengthening the internal front, urging citizens to go vote massively in order to bring about the long-awaited change. The secretary general of the National Democratic […]
Algiers — Political party and independent candidates on the ninth day of the campaign stressed the need to make a success of the legislative elections of June 12th, mainly through a high voter turnout to contribute to the completion of the building process of State institutions. The president of the New Algeria Front (FAN), Djamel […]