Ouyahia served four times as prime minister from 1995, three of them during Bouteflika’s two-decade rule
Protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika have been fanned by football followers, whose stadium chants have been heard across the country
Bouteflika has been in power since 1999 and his rare public appearances since his stroke have been in a wheelchair.
Experts have reported that Algeria’s economic growth is being stunted, partly by businesses’ reliance on the black market.
Algerian troops have crossed into Mali to help government forces combat groups affiliated to al-Qaeda, officials and witnesses have said.
For nearly two weeks Algerian schoolteacher Hamou Benhamou has spent his days protesting outside the presidential administration.
Hundreds of youths clashed with police in several cities in Algeria, including the capital, over food price rises and chronic unemployment.
Algeria aims to build its first commercial nuclear power station around 2020, Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said on Tuesday.
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.
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.
Two bombs exploded on Sunday at a railway station east of Algiers, killing 12 people including a French engineer.
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…
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)…
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…
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…
War may break out again in Western Sahara if United Nations-sponsored talks between Morocco and the Polisario Front independence movement fail, Polisario said on Friday. A third…
Two convicted terrorists who had been freed in an amnesty carried out this week’s suicide bombings at United Nations and government buildings that killed 37 people, an Algerian…
Two Algerians, aged 30 and 64, carried out Tuesday’s twin car-bomb attacks in Algiers that killed scores of people, the Algerian daily Liberte reported on Thursday. According to…
Rescuers on Wednesday kept up the search for survivors of two al-Qaeda bomb attacks as grieving families started funerals for dozens of victims. The United Nations said 11 of its…
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for a car bomb strike in Algiers that killed dozens of people as rescuers continued to work to find survivors. Amid a disputed death toll,…
