At least 20 foreigners - including US, French, British, Norwegian and Japanese citizens - are being held hostage by Islamist militants at a gas facility in Algeria.

[Magharebia]Algiers -The Algerian army is reinforcing its presence to prevent infiltration by jihadists.

President Francois Hollande acknowledges the brutality of France's colonisation of Algeria, but does not apologise.

[Magharebia]In a joint declaration issued from Algiers on Thursday (January 10th), Algeria and Spain called for the "restoration of territorial integrity, sovereignty and constitutional order" in Mali....

[Sudan Tribune]Washington -This week's economic agreements worth billions of dollars between the energy-rich Gulf state of Qatar and the North African nations of Egypt and Algeria represents an "embarr...

Algeria are out of the Africa Cup of Nations to the disappointment of Abdulkader Belqadi, a die-hard fan who bought a scooter to follow Les Fennecs (Desert Foxes) around South Africa.

[Magharebia]Algerian Ligue 1 side CS Constantine are looking at Ghanaian striker Kwabena Yaro and Malian forward Yaya Coulibaly, APS reported on Wednesday (December 12th). The players may be approached...

[Magharebia]Nouakchott -Less than two weeks after the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and radical Islamist group Ansar al-Din signed a Mali peace treaty, Algeria is trying to conv...

pALGIERS ? The United States joined France in a diplomatic lobbying campaign Monday to win key Algerian support for an emergency military intervention in northern Mali, where a data-xslt="_http" href="...

[SPS]Algiers -The third international conference on "the right of peoples to resistance: the case of the Saharawi people" will be held on 15th and 16th December 2012 in Algiers, announced Sunday the Al...