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The African Development Bank’s 2025 Industrialization Index delivered a verdict that should unsettle Algiers. Morocco now tops Africa’s industrial rankings, ahead of South Africa, while Algeria, sits on some of the continent’s largest hydrocarbon reserves, it trails behind as one of the least industrialized and least diversified African economies. It is the predictable outcome of […]
Far from the images of the mass border rushes at Ceuta and Melilla, a different migration story is unfolding in Algeria in the western Mediterranean. According to data released on August 12 by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Algeria has become the leading country of origin for irregular migration to Spain, well ahead of […]
The Algerian regime has donated Niger four Russian military helicopters alongside ammunition and spare parts in a bid to mend ties with Niamey and restore its fading luster in the region. The Algerian ruling junta made this politically-motivated grant worth millions of US dollars, while leaving their own people suffering from severe shortage of basic […]
A social-media campaign that helped mobilize thousands of people to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last month was linked to networks operating from Algeria, according to findings cited by Moroccan news outlet Le360, raising fresh questions over whether the migration crisis was exploited as part of Algiers’ anti-Moroccan agenda. The Algerian […]
A Spanish open-source intelligence report concluded that an Algeria-based network played a central role in organizing the late-July rush of tens of thousands of people into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, turning what was initially presented as spontaneous desperation into a coordinated digital and physical operation. Security analyst José María Gil Garre’s investigation found that […]
A passenger bus plunged into a ravine in northern Algeria on Friday, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens more, in the latest in a series of deadly incidents that have highlighted chronic shortcomings in infrastructure, safety standards and emergency preparedness across the country. The bus, travelling from Setif towards Algiers, left the road […]
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune sat down Monday for another of his tedious interviews with a group of sycophant state television journalists. The format that has become a hallmark of his presidency but rarely delivers the accountability Algerians are waiting for. Over more than two hours, the broadcast, aired on a delay by public media, veered from […]
As wildfires once again tear through northern Algeria this July, the same grim image resurfaces every summer of villagers standing in front of walls of flame armed with nothing but tree branches and plastic buckets. It is a scene that has repeated itself for at least five consecutive fire seasons, proof that Algeria has learned […]
French President Emmanuel Macron said France had set no numerical target for visas issued to Algerian citizens and was showing “no laxity” on the issue, distancing himself from comments by France’s ambassador to Algiers that had been interpreted as signalling an easing of visa restrictions. Government spokeswoman Maud Bregeon said Macron made the remarks during […]
Algeria has formally closed out a four-year diplomatic rupture with Spain, hosting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Algiers but without securing any shift in Madrid’s position on the regional dispute over the Sahara territory, the very issue that triggered the freeze in 2022. Sanchez made a brief stopover in the Algerian capital while traveling […]