Browsing: Algeria

Gunmen killed 11 Algerian soldiers in an ambush overnight, the defence ministry said on Sunday, in the first attack of its kind since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won a fourth term. The attack took place in the restive Kabylie region east of Algiers…

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has criticised Algerian authorities over delays in issuing visas for foreign journalists to cover the country’s presidential election on Thursday. Many journalists were “issued visas late in the day accompanied…

Africans played leading roles in some of the most surprising results around Europe over the weekend, with Algeria’s Sofiane Feghouli in particular to the fore. Feghouli starred in Valencia’s stunning win away to Barcelona in La Liga, while Peter Odemwingie…