Saber Blidi

Saber Blidi is an Algerian writer.

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Former Algerian prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia is escorted by police after attending the funeral of his brother at a cemetery in the capital Algiers on June 22, 2020. (AFP)
Is Bouteflika being shielded from the corruption trials?
June 25, 2020
A file picture of Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Tebboune (R) meeting with Libya’s UN-recognised Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj in Algiers, January 6, (AFP).
Algeria plays hand at negotiating Libya crisis, receives Sarraj after Saleh
June 21, 2020
A worker inspects the Krechba gas plant in Algeria's Sahara Desert, about 1,200 kilometres (720 miles) south of the capital, Algiers. (AP)
Popular unrest builds in Algeria’s far south after death of protester
June 18, 2020
A 2019 file picture shows security forces facing Algerian demonstrators gathered in front of the daira (sub-prefecture) of Tizi-Ouzou, in the Kabylie heartland. (AFP)
New wave of Algeria protests raise questions about future of Hirak
June 17, 2020
Cartoonist portrait of Miriam Merad.
Miriam Merad, first Algerian and Arab woman to join US’s National Academy of Sciences
June 11, 2020
File picture of Algerian policemen standing guard outside the El Harrach prison in the suburbs of the capital Algiers. AFP
Algeria’s Islamists want to equate “Black Decade” detainees with Hirak prisoners
June 05, 2020
An Algerian housewife prepares a meal inside her kitchen in Algiers. (AFP)
Austerity policies could trigger social explosion in Algeria
June 03, 2020
An Algerian man walks by a greengrocer’s stall in a market of the Khraicia district, 20km south of the capital. (AFP)
Algerian finance bill adds to citizens’ tax burden
May 29, 2020
Algerian Secretary of State for culture Salim Dada visits the vandalised art mural. (Facebook)
Defaced mural in Algiers reveals widening ideological rift
May 27, 2020
A man prays outside a mosque near his car in Algiers. (AFP)
Algeria’s Islamists use identity issues to drum up support, serve agenda
May 23, 2020
Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum meets with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian (L) in Algiers, last March. (AFP)
French Army drawing about Berber issue ratchets up tensions between Algiers, Paris
May 15, 2020
A general view shows empty streets in Algiers after anti-government protests were suspended, following the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. (REUTERS)
Algerian activists, experts see more of the same in new draft constitution
May 13, 2020
Algerian protesters take part in an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers, last February. (AFP)
Algeria Army Magazine signals continuing divide between military and radical opposition
May 11, 2020
A file picture shows Algerian soldiers standing guard at Tiguentourine gas plant in In Amenas, 1600 km southeast of Algiers. (Reuters)
Constitutional amendments to scrap Algeria’s military dogma of non intervention abroad
May 09, 2020
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune attends the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last February. (AFP)
Algeria is seeking to recapture lost influence in Africa
April 23, 2020
distribute food aid to poor and homeless people in Algiers, April 8. (AP)
Algeria faces risk of social upheaval as living conditions deteriorate
April 16, 2020
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune speaks at a news conference in Algiers, last December. (Reuters)
Algeria expels manager of Qatar-owned company, signalling strained relations with Doha
February 21, 2020
Celebrating identity. Algerian Berber women prepare couscous as they mark the Yennayer New Year in the village of Ait el-Kecem, south of Tizi-Ouzou, east of Algiers. (AFP)
Celebration of Amazigh new year reflects Algeria’s diversity but also stark contradictions
January 18, 2020
Algerians take part in a protest against the government in Algiers, Algeria, Friday, October 18. (AP)
Algeria, from an uprising to the other
October 19, 2019
Key sector. A worker inspects the Krechba gas plant in Algeria’s Sahara Desert, south of the capital Algiers. (AP)
New hydrocarbon law divides Algerians
October 12, 2019