The Arab Contractors, working in cooperation with El-Sewedy Electric company, successfully installed the first turbine in the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station and Dam project in Tanzania last week.
The $2.9 billion project, a partnership between (...)
The death toll in fires ravaging mountain forests and villages in Algeria's Berber region climbed Wednesday to 65 people, including 28 soldiers, as the president declared a three-day mourning period this week to honor the lives lost.
The Civil (...)
At least 25 soldiers died saving residents from wildfires ravaging mountain forests and villages east of Algeria's capital, the president announced Tuesday night as the civilian toll rose to at least 17.
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune tweeted that (...)
Cairo and Khartoum, both still after a diplomatic solution to the crisis over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), this week welcomed an Algerian attempt at mediation intended to bridge the differences between the two capitals and Addis Ababa (...)
Due to a range of demographic, economic and political factors, Ethiopia is one of the most influential actors in the Horn of Africa region, which makes Ethiopian policy a key determinant of the regional interplay. Since Abiy Ahmed came to power as (...)
Algerians voted for a new parliament Saturday in an election with a majority of novice independent candidates running under new rules meant to erase political corruption and open the way to a ``new Algeria.'' But the turnout was dismal for the first (...)
The leader of a movement seeking independence from Morocco who is at the center of a diplomatic row between Rabat and Madrid flew out of Spain to Algeria on Wednesday, arriving in the middle of the night, officials in his movement said.
Brahim Ghali (...)
Algeria has detected its first cases of the coronavirus variant first discovered in India, state research centre Pasteur Institute said on Monday.
Six cases of the variant have been confirmed in the coastal province of Tipaza, some 70 km (43.75 (...)
In the biggest update to Google Earth since 2017, users of the programme can now see the planet, including developments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, in an entirely new dimension.
With Timelapse in Google Earth, 24 million (...)
With one game left in the group stage of the African Champions League, Ahly of Egypt have made it to the quarter-finals while Zamalek, another Egyptian club, revived their hopes of making it to the last eight themselves.
Match day six games are to (...)
Tunisian giants Esperance and Moroccan heavyweights Wydad Casablanca have conceded shock defeats on Saturday against Teungueth of Senegal and Kaizer Chiefs of South Africa to risk losing the top spots of their respective groups.
Already-eliminated (...)
Abdenour Ait Said and Mohamed Chabti both helped topple Algeria's veteran president nearly two years ago by taking part in mass street demonstrations against the ruling elite but they no longer agree on the protests.
The protest movement, known as (...)
The trial opened before an Algiers court Thursday in the 2014 kidnapping and beheading of a French mountaineer claimed by a jihadist faction affiliated to the Islamic State group.
Just one of the alleged kidnappers of 55-year-old mountain guide (...)
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday announced the dissolution of the lower house of parliament and called early legislative elections.
Addressing the nation on state television, Tebboune announced a government reshuffle in the next (...)
Faced with dwindling energy revenues and costlier imports, Algeria's government is turning to farmers like Mostefa Mazouzi to help narrow its trade gap - so it's lent him a hectare of land on condition he use it to grow bananas.
Mazouzi, who already (...)
Saiid Bouteflika, the younger brother and adviser of Algeria's former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and four others were acquitted on Saturday of conspiracy charges for which they were serving long prison sentences by a military court in (...)
Twenty people, mostly African nationals, died on Thursday when a vehicle carrying them overturned in southern Algeria, the civil protection agency said.
Eleven people aboard the vehicle were also injured in the accident near Ain Mguel town in the (...)
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returned to Algeria on Tuesday after two months in a German hospital being treated for COVID-19 during a period of political and economic crisis.
State television showed him at a military airport outside Algiers (...)
Many problems confront efforts towards a comprehensive settlement of the Libyan crisis, even though the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) announced it will restart the “Berlin Process” as soon as possible, and that with Germany it will sponsor a (...)
The latest developments in the Libyan crisis, from the outcome of the meeting between Libyan stakeholders in Montreux on 7-9 September to Government of National Accord (GNA) leader Fayez Al-Sarraj's sudden decision to step down at the end of (...)
The Franco-Tunisian writer Albert Memmi, who died in Paris on 22 May at the age of 99, was possibly the last surviving member of the generation of French and North African writers who contributed to debates about the end of French colonialism in the (...)
Speculation over a possible Egyptian military intervention in Libya is growing, though those who are fanning the flames of such speculation appear to be divided over whether the intervention will take the form of air strikes against military targets (...)
In the latest development in Egypt's political and military preparations to respond to developments in Libya, the Egyptian House of Representatives voted, on Monday, to give the president a mandate to send troops on missions abroad.
Cairo's policy (...)
Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as “The Untouchables” (...)
Anti-racism groups are leading a ``de-colonial tour'' of Paris on Sunday to call attention to monuments and streets honoring historical figures tied to the slave trade or colonial-era abuses.
The march, starting at the French capital's Museum of (...)
