Tag: Algeria
Algeria celebrates its first “day of remembrance” and calls for French “repentance”
It was May 8, 1945. In Algeria, independence demonstrations had been violently repressed by France. The country celebrated, on Saturday, May 8, 2021, its first “National day of remembrance” in…
Repression resumes in Algeria against Hirak militants
Demonstration in front of the large post office in Algiers, April 2, 2021. RYAD KRAMDI / AFP Two months after the decision of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to pardon Hirak…
In Algeria, Ramadan of all challenges
In a food store in Algiers, in April 2020. RAMZI BOUDINA / REUTERS “We have a president who talks to us about oil, meat and semolina”, laments Hafid. On his…
In Algeria, arrest of five people who planned anti-Hirak attacks
Anti-regime demonstration in Algiers, Friday March 26, 2021. RAMZI BOUDINA / REUTERS Algerian justice announced Tuesday, March 30 the arrest of five people suspected of planning actions “Terrorists” in Tizi-Ouzou…