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Algeria

A 2019 file picture shows Algerian demonstrators dressed in traditional Berber or Amazigh minority outfits take part in a protest in the capital Algiers. Placard calls for unity of Algerians. (AFP)

Declaring Tamazight an official language sparks controversy in Algeria

Algeria

Former Algerian Prime Minister and currently imprisoned Ahmed Ouyahia is escorted by police as he attends the funeral of his brother in the capital Algiers on June 22. (AFP)

Ouyahia ‘cemetery scandal’ exposes Algeria rifts

Ahmed Ouyahia

Former Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal arrives for a meeting of the Assembly of the Heads of State and the Government of the African Union in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, January 31, 2017. (Reuters)

Heavy sentences confirmed in ex-Algerian PM cases

Algeria

Abdelaziz Rahabi, former Algerian minister and coordinator of the management body of the National Forum for Dialogue speaks during the National Forum for Dialogue in Algiers, Algeria, July 6, 2019. (DPA)

Could the coronavirus pandemic cure Algeria's crisis?

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Demonstrators carry national flags as they march, a year since the start of weekly protests calling for an overhaul of the ruling elite, an end to corruption and the army's withdrawal from politics, in Algiers, Algeria, February 14, 2020. (Reuters)

Algeria anti-system protests mark first anniversary

protesters

Algerian protesters lift placards and chant during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers, on January 31, 2020. (AFP)

Algeria president pardons thousands but not protesters

protesters

A man chants slogans as he takes part with other protesters in the 49th consecutive Friday demonstration against the Algerian government and the ruling class in the capital Algiers on January 24, 2020. (AFP)

Algerian protests blunted without a shot fired in anger

Ahmed Ouyahia

In this, Sept. 17, 2018 file photo, former Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, left, listens in Algierss while in the Dec.4, 2014 file photo, former Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal leaves the Elysee palace in Paris.

Algerian court convicts 2 ex-prime ministers of corruption

protests

Demonstrators carry national flags and gesture during a protest rejecting the December presidential election in Algiers, Algeria November 22, 2019. (Reuters)

Algeria youth leaders charged with 'undermining national unity'