The 82-year-old finally resigned from office and Algerian citizens took to the streets to celebrate
Algeria’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign as president before his mandate expires on April 28.
Despite president pulling out of election race, demonstrators continue to call for his departure
Protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika have been fanned by football followers, whose stadium chants have been heard across the country
"Peacefully, we have overthrown the puppet!" people sang in Algiers following the president’s decision
Bouteflika has been in power since 1999 and his rare public appearances since his stroke have been in a wheelchair.
Around a thousand lawyers breached police cordons to march on the Constitutional Council in a bid to stop the re-election of the current president.
Algeria places a particular premium on the policy of deradicalisation by quelling violent extremism
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika uses a wheelchair and has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013
The 13 monuments, whose square stone bases are topped with angular mounds, are perched on a pair of hills near the city of Tiaret
A UN migration official has accused Algeria of leaving hundreds of African migrants stranded in the desert
An Associated Press report details witness accounts of migrants and refugees from Africa left to die in the Sahara Desert
Many women are dropped by their husbands just after they are diagnosed, leaving them alone to face drastic treatment
In recent weeks, several Angolan media outfits have accused dos Santos of ordering suspect transfers and payments worth tens of millions of dollars.
Algeria’s "democratic spring" that followed widespread protests in October 1988 put an end to a state monopoly of the media.
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South Africa has many attributes that make it a worthy representative of Africa on the world stage, but is set to lose its first place.
Tournament favourite Algeria avoided an unpleasant surprise at the African Cup of Nations on Monday, while four-time champion Ghana did not.
Football in Algeria has been cancelled in protest after a projectile from the crowd hit and killed a league player sparked revulsion at the violence.
Africa’s final remaining contenders in the World Cub will tackle Germany and France on Monday.
Dozens of migrants from Niger heading for Algeria have died of thirst in the Sahara desert after their vehicle broke down, say local officials.
South Africa and Algeria have agreed to speed up the formation of the Joint Trade and Investment Committee, says the department of trade and industry.
Japan has said it would give $120-million in aid to the troubled Sahel region after ten Japanese nationals were killed in an Algerian hostage crisis.
The death toll from a four-day siege at an Algerian gas plant has risen to at least 81, with nine Japanese nationals reported to have been killed.
Algeria warned the toll from a siege at a gas plant would rise, after its troops staged an assault which killed all the remaining Islamist gunmen.
Algerian troops ended a siege at a gas plant in the Sahara where 23 hostages died, with a final assault which killed all the remaining hostage-takers.
Islamists have killed all seven of their remaining foreign captives before they were gunned down at a gas plant in the Algerian desert.
Al-Qaeda-linked fighters have killed two people in Algeria, taking more than 40 foreign hostages, while French troops battled Islamist rebels in Mali.
The US has confirmed that American citizens are among hostages being held in Algeria after an attack by Islamist militants near a southern gas field.
President Francois Hollande has acknowledged that French colonisation of Algeria was "brutal", but stopped short of apologising for it.
Francois Hollande refused to ‘repent’ for France’s colonial past in Algeria, saying instead that he wanted to boost trade with the oil-rich country.
Algeria’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika has led celebrations marking its independence with a tribute to the those who died fighting 132 years of French rule.
Islamists have stormed the Algerian embassy in Mali and abducted seven diplomats amid fears that fighters are turning the country into a rogue state.