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Algeria

June 2024

  • Dried-out ground on the edge of the Gaddara Dam, where water levels have dropped

    ‘Whack-a-mole situation’: Algerian officials wrestle with water shortage anger

  • Emma Nziok DJ-ing on stage

    African and Asian artists condemn ‘humiliating’ UK and EU visa refusals

  • trail image 4

    Bloodlines
    Beaten and tortured: the north African children paying a bloody price for Europe’s insatiable appetite for cocaine

  • Four boys stand on a hill silhouetted against a dark sky

    Bloodlines
    Revealed: drug cartels force migrant children to work as foot soldiers in Europe’s booming cocaine trade

May 2024

  • Performers and traditional activities ongoing in the traditional tents Ausserd Refugee camp , Algeria, set up for the FiSahara film festival, held 29 April-5 May 2024. Approximately 170,00 live in the 5 Sahrawi refugee camps located in Algeria’s Hamada desert, each named after a major town in Western Sahara, The camps were begun in 1975 to offer shelter from the war of independence against Morocco . They continue to grow in people fleeing the war , reignited when Morocco broke the ceasefire in 2020 .

    The art of resistance: desert film festival showcases stories of the Sahrawi people

    Exiled from their home since it was occupied by Morocco in the mid-70s, nearly 200,000 Sahrawis live in camps in Algeria. Now in its 18th year, the FiSahara festival is a window to the world

April 2024

  • Maurice el Médioni

    Maurice el Médioni obituary

    Versatile Algerian pianist and songwriter who transformed the country’s popular music after the second world war

March 2024

  • A performance by El Wali in Laayoune refugee camp in 2023.

    ‘This music survived in a network of phones’: El Wali, the shapeshifting voice of Saharan struggle

  • In abandoned and dilapidated warehouses in Sfax, young Sudanese adolescents have taken refuge, awaiting the journey to Italy

    Rights and freedom
    Detained, trafficked, exploited: the plight of lone child migrants stranded in Tunisia

February 2024

  • The Great Mosque of Algiers

    Africa’s largest mosque inaugurated in Algeria after years of delays

    Prayer room of Great Mosque of Algiers, beset by political wrangling and cost overruns, accommodates 120,000 people
  • Displaced Palestinians, take shelter in a camp in Rafah, which is under threat of a ground invasion by Israel.

    First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: Everyone claims to back a ceasefire in Gaza. But what are they really saying?

    In today’s newsletter: As Israel’s position weakens on the international stage, differences in language between different ceasefire calls tell a complicated story
  • Zineb Sedira photographed in the Whitechapel gallery, where her Brixton living room has been recreated in wallpaper

    ‘Living in Brixton allowed me not to be judged non-stop’: Zineb Sedira, the artist who makes people feel at home

    The child of Algerian parents who grew up in France and found artistic freedom in London on family, ideas of belonging and how she and close friend Sonia Boyce came to be the toast of 2022’s Venice Biennale

December 2023

  • Paris Orly airport sign.

    Man survives flight from Algeria to Paris hidden in plane’s landing gear

    Unidentified man in life-threatening condition after enduring temperatures of around -50C on Air Algerie flight from Oran

September 2023

  • People attend funeral

    Algeria says its coastguard fired warning shots before killing jetski riders

    Defence ministry releases its version of events five days after two dual French-Moroccan men were shot dead on entering Algerian waters
  • People attend the funeral of Bilal Kissi.

    Moroccan jetski tourist describes being shot at by Algerian coastguard

    Mohamed Kissi says forces approached and began fatal shooting after group strayed into Algerian waters
  • Mourners carry the body of Bilal Kissi in Saïdia

    Holidaymakers on jetskis reportedly shot after entering Algerian waters

    At least one man dead after group on holiday in Morocco enter Algerian territory off beach resort of Saïdia

August 2023

  • Khaled Nezzar, smoking a cigarette behind microphones at a press conference in January 2016

    Former Algerian minister of defence indicted in Switzerland on war crime charges

  • A Nigerien police officer stands guard in Niamey next to trucks, mainly loaded with food, that have arrived from Burkina Faso

    African Union issues ambiguous view on possible Niger military intervention

July 2023

  • Fire breaks out on Mount Etna and spreads across the entire southern slope of the volcano as wildfires hit Sicily, in Catania, Italy.

    Southern Europe and north Africa count heavy cost of wildfires

    As extreme heat recedes, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Algeria reflect on lives lost, environmental damage and costs to livelihoods

  • Ring of fire encircles Mediterranean amid record breaking heatwave – video

    At least nine Mediterranean countries affected by a string of wildfires amid a record-breaking heatwave that scientists have linked to the human-induced climate emergency
  • Wildfire burns on the island of RhodesPeople look at a firefighting helicopter filling water from a pool, as a wildfire burns in the village of Gennadi, on the island of Rhodes, Greece, 25 July 2023.

    ‘Like a blowtorch’: Mediterranean on fire as blazes spread across nine countries

    ‘There is no magical defence mechanism,’ says Greek prime minister as fires burn in northern Africa and southern Europe
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