Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has become increasingly isolated as political climate continues to deteriorate in country, and Algerian president offers help Algeria’s president has offered to help Tunisia return to the “democratic path” as political [ More … ]
A pro-government Algerian television channel showed people streaming into a provincial polling station on Sunday for a constitutional referendum backed by the country’s rulers, but on the streets of the capital there was less enthusiasm [ More … ]
Morocco ‘could take an initiative, which would bring an end once and for all to this matter,’ says Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune The president of Algeria said Saturday he would welcome an initiative to end [ More … ]
Electoral body says preliminary results show ex-premier Abdelmadjid Tebboune took 58 percent of the vote in heavily boycotted poll Algeria’s electoral body said on Friday that former prime minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune had won Thursday’s presidential [ More … ]
Algerian opposition groups and protesters have demanded elections take place by the end of the year, after the interim president pushed for dialogue talks. Algerian civil society and opposition party activists met and proposed “free and pluralistic” elections [ More … ]
Eight years after the Arab Spring transfixed the world, the Middle East has once again lit up with protest. In April, popular movements in Algeria and Sudan forced the ouster of two long-serving autocrats: Algerian [ More … ]
In the space of little more than a week, two long-ruling autocrats in the Arab world succumbed to people power. First, it was Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the wheelchair-bound figurehead of an entrenched regime who [ More … ]
Longtime president says he quit to let citizens ‘take Algeria to the better future they aspire to’. Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned with immediate effect, according to state media, ceding power in the face of massive street [ More … ]
The Algerian Constitutional Council said it would decide whether to move to remove the president The head of Algeria’s army, Ahmed Gaid Salah, called for Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be declared “unfit to rule” [ More … ]
Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his withdrawal Monday from a bid to win another term in office and postponed an April 18 election, following weeks of protests against his candidacy. By: AFP Mr Bouteflika, in [ More … ]
Tens of thousands of protesters have been demanding Algeria’s president sit out coming election Algeria’s ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has returned to the country on Sunday, where he faces widespread protests against his plans for [ More … ]
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has submitted official papers confirming he will seek re-election, Ennahar TV said on Sunday, despite mass protests against the move. There was no official confirmation, but state news agency APS published [ More … ]
Thousands of people gathered across Algeria on Friday to protest President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plans to run for a fifth term. Security forces in riot gear fired tear gas to block a march on to the presidential [ More … ]
The presidential elections in Algeria will be held on April 18. 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, whose candidacy has been an issue of debate for days, has announced his candidacy to take office for the fifth [ More … ]
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to go on a five-day official visit to four African countries starting Monday, Feb. 26. According to a statement released by the president’s office, Erdogan will hold talks [ More … ]
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