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Former Algerian PM questioned in widening probe into longtime elite
Ouyahia served four times as prime minister from 1995, three of them during Bouteflika’s two-decade rule
Football fans, Algeria’s invisible catalyst
Protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika have been fanned by football followers, whose stadium chants have been heard across the country
Bouteflika ‘returns’ to strike-hit Algeria from Geneva
Bouteflika has been in power since 1999 and his rare public appearances since his stroke have been in a wheelchair.
Parallel economy and tax evasion costs Algeria billions
Experts have reported that Algeria’s economic growth is being stunted, partly by businesses’ reliance on the black market.
Algerian troops enter Mali to fight al-Qaeda
Algerian troops have crossed into Mali to help government forces combat groups affiliated to al-Qaeda, officials and witnesses have said.
Algeria teachers take demands to president’s doorstep
For nearly two weeks Algerian schoolteacher Hamou Benhamou has spent his days protesting outside the presidential administration.
Algerian youths riot over food prices, unemployment
Hundreds of youths clashed with police in several cities in Algeria, including the capital, over food price rises and chronic unemployment.
Algeria to build nuclear power plants from 2020
Algeria aims to build its first commercial nuclear power station around 2020, Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said on Tuesday.
Algerian protestors demand aid as flood toll rises
About 5 000 people demonstrated in the flood-riven southern Algerian town of Ghardaia on Friday to demand urgent aid after flash floods killed 31.
Dozens killed in attack on Algerian police school
A suicide attack on an Algerian police school at Issers, 60km east of Algiers, killed 43 people and injured 38, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
Algeria bombs kill 12
Two bombs exploded on Sunday at a railway station east of Algiers, killing 12 people including a French engineer.
Opec: No output talks before September
Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) president Chakib Khelil reiterated on Saturday that Opec would not make a decision on output policy before its next…
Opec president says oil market well supplied
Oil markets are well supplied and high prices are the result of speculation, a weak dollar and geopolitical problems, Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec)…
Algeria attackers ambush and kill soldiers
Suspected Islamist rebels killed five soldiers in an ambush on a military convoy east of Algiers on Wednesday, a security source said. The attack occurred near the town of Tizi…
Death toll from Algerian violence jumps in December
The death toll from political violence in Algeria jumped to 56 in December from six in the previous month, bringing to 491 the number of those killed in 2007, according to a…