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2020-03-15 12:23
By Hana Saada
Ex- Algerian FM Ramtane Lamamra eyed as next UN Libya Envoy, replacing Salame
ALGERIA - Consultations have been taking place between United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and U.N. Security Council members about appointing former Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra as the body’s new Libya envoy, diplomats said on Wednesday.
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2020-03-14 11:48
By Hana Saada
Take an in-depth look at Algeria’s New Republic
ALGERIA - In February, 22nd 2019, millions of Algerians have taken to the streets in cities nationwide as well as abroad, shattering the wall of fear of silence, demanding the departure of the-then President Abdelaziz Bouteflika who proceeded to run for a fifth presidential term despite his poor health. This announcement sparked anger among Algerian citizens, giving birth to a massive grassroots movement in several cities, the biggest outpouring of dissent seen in Algeria for decades in 1988 due to social despair, which surprised the international community and observers of Algerian politics due to its peaceful nature.
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2020-02-24 11:59
By Hana Saada
41st anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution victory commemorated in Algeria
ALGERIA - A reception ceremony was held, on Wednesday in Algiers, by Iran’s Embassy to Algeria so as to celebrate the 41st victory anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
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2019-12-28 08:45
By Hana Saada
Algeria mourns its man of honour Gaid Salah, Army Chief of Stuff
ALGERIA - Algeria mourns one of its defenders and great men. Algeria's powerful Army Chief Major- General Ahmed Gaid Salah, one of the last veterans of the 1954-62 independence war against the French colonization, passed away, on Monday, of a heart attack, announced the Algerian presidency of the Republic in a statement.
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2019-12-21 10:48
By Hana Saada
Algeria swears in its new president Tebboune
ALGERIA - Algeria swore in its new president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, on Thursday, a week after the holding of the decisive presidential election.
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2019-12-17 12:05
By Hana Saada
Iran eyes strong ties with Algeria under new president Tebboune
ALGERIA - The Iranian Foreign Ministry expressed congratulations on the successful holding of the crucial presidential election in Algeria, voicing hope that the newly-elected president would chart a new era for the Iranian-Algerian deeply-rooted ties.
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2019-12-14 10:35
By Hana Saada
Ex-PM Tebboune wins race to succeed deposed Bouteflika
ALGERIA - After two decades of Abdelaziz Bouteflika rule, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, a former prime minister, has been elected Algeria’s new president, after a crucial vote the authorities hope will serve as a way-out to the political deadlock the Algerian nation has been going through since the outbreak of the fierce pro-democracy popular protests in February, toppling his long-time predecessor Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
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2019-12-11 10:54
By Hana Saada
Algeria’s landmark televised trial: Court convicts, imprisons 2 ex-PMs, ministers, tycoons for corruption
ALGERIA - For the second time since Algeria’s pro-democracy mass protests, following the first trial with long prison terms handed to former spy chiefs, leftist political party SG, and the brother of the ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, over charges of plotting against the state and undermining the army, senior political officials and oligarchs, including two former Algerian prime ministers, went on live trial on groundbreaking corruption charges in the most high-profile act of transparency and accountability.
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2019-12-02 13:16
By Hana Saada
"No to foreign interference": Algerians dissipating disaccord in face of European Parliament’s resolution
ALGERIA - Algeria, "free and sovereign "in its decisions, accepts no interference or diktat and submits to no bargaining whoever the parties," this is how responded Algeria’s lieutenant general, chief of Staff of the People's National Army, to the non-binding resolution, adopted by the European Parliament, on Thursday, November 28, 2019 on the so-called the grim reality of human rights in Algeria, calling on the North African country to put an end to the criminalization of dissent, arbitrary arrests, and violations of minority rights.
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2019-10-11 13:43
By Hana Saada
“This is an attack on national sovereignty”: Algeria warns French MP Mathilde Panot
ALGERIA - Algerian Foreign Minister reacted to the controversy over the participation of the French MP Mathilde Panot at the popular movement in Algeria.
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2019-10-06 12:14
By Hana Saada
Algeria Army lambasts EU interference in country’s affairs, vows to flout external dictates
Algeria’s People’s National Army’s Chief of Staff, Deputy Minister of National Defense, Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaïd Salah responded to the statements by the president of the European Parliament's subcommittee on human rights, saying that what was happening in Algeria was a strictly internal affair.
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2019-09-16 11:56
By Hanaa Saada
Algeria’s political impasse: What is next?
ALGERIA - Seven months after a wave of protests began in Algeria; people are still pilling onto the streets of the Algerian capital “Algiers” and other cities nationwide every Friday, reiterating their main demands: the departure of the regime and its symbols and the application of Articles 7 and 8 of the Constitution stating that the constituent power belongs to the people.
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2019-04-27 10:16
By Alan Macleod
Dictator: Media code for ‘Government we don’t like’
FAIR - Let’s start with a quiz: Quick! Name some dictators! I’m willing to bet most of you responded with just a few of the same names: Assad, Putin, Castro, Kim Jong-un, Gaddafi, Maduro. This is not because they are the only dictators in the world (far from it), or that all of them even necessarily qualify for the title, but precisely because these are the figures most constantly labeled as such by our media.
