The trip follows months of tensions between Paris and the North African country, which earlier this year marked six decades of independence following 132 years of French rule. The three-day visit also comes as European powers scramble to replace Russian energy imports -- including with supplies from Algeria, Africa's top...

Macron's office said his visit aims to "lay a foundation to rebuild and develop" a sometimes difficult relationship with the North African nation after a particularly tense few months. "We didn't choose the past, we inherited it," he said at a joint press conference on Thursday evening alongside Algerian President...

President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Algeria on Thursday for a three-day visit aimed at mending ties with the former French colony, which this year marked its 60th anniversary of independence. The first French president to be born after Algerian independence, Macron is hoping "to lay a foundation to rebuild and...

This week, the label's miniature headquarters at a long-shuttered record store in the eastern city of Oran will receive another prominent guest: French President Emmanuel Macron.

Noureddine Bedoui, the former prime minister of Algeria, has been detained on court orders, two days after another court had placed him under supervision and confiscated his passport. He is the third ex-premier to face jail on corruption charges. Bedoui briefly served as prime minister in early 2019.

Algeria's northeast was particularly hard-hit since Wednesday in blazes exacerbated by climate change but the fire service said most of the fires there had been put out.

Many Jordanian industrial sectors have the necessary requirements to enter the Algerian market, especially the pharmaceutical components, clothing, chemical and fertilizer industries, as well as the plastic, rubber and metal industries.

The French presidency said that this trip will contribute to deepening the bilateral relationship, reinforce Franco-Algerian cooperation in the face of regional challenges and to continue the work of addressing the past.

The Jordanian and Algerian business community agreed to a new vision for the two countries' economic relations, aiming to open broad prospects for joint trade and investment cooperation.

Authorities said they deployed more than 1,700 firefighters over Wednesday and Thursday. The dead included more than 10 children and a similar number of firefighters, according to multiple sources including local journalists and the fire service. But officials have also been accused of a lack of preparation, with few firefighting...

Deadly fires have become an annual scourge in Algeria, where climate change has turned large areas of forest into a tinderbox in the blistering summer months.

Morocco's King Mohammed VI used an address on Saturday to "once again" reiterate his openness to restoring ties with Algeria, which broke off diplomatic relations with Rabat last year.

The Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) would transport billions of cubic metres of gas some 4,128 kilometres (2,565 miles) from Nigeria in West Africa.

Algerian state oil firm Sonatrach announced on Monday new oil and gas discoveries in the North African country's Sahara desert, including a find made with Italian major Eni.

Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi affirmed Saturday Iraq aspires to strengthen the relations with Algeria in various fields. "PM Al-Kadhimi received the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Ramtane Lamamra, and the accompanying delegation," local media reported. They discussed bilateral relations between the two nations, including...

After two years of closure, nine border crossings between Tunisia and Algeria reopened at midnight on Thursday. The decision to reopen the crossings was announced by Algeria's President Abdelmajid Tebboune to his Tunisian counterpart Kais Saied, on July 5, during Algiers' independence day celebrations.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met publicly for the first time in over five years, on the sidelines of Algerian independence anniversary celebrations.

Passengers had been blocked from crossing the border since March 2020 to stop the Covid-19 illness spreading, although cargo traffic had continued.

Jordan's industrial goods have a great opportunity to gain a foothold in the Algerian market, president of the Jordan and Amman Chambers of Industry, Fathi Al-Jaghbir said

The North African country won its independence following a gruelling eight-year war, which ended with the signing in March 1962 of the Evian Accords.

An Algerian appeals court on Tuesday upheld a 20-year prison sentence for corruption against Chakib Khelil, energy minister for a decade under longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the APS news agency reported. The court also fined him two million dinars (about $13,600) and upheld prison sentences of five and six years...

Algerian state energy firm Sonatrach announced Monday the discovery of an "important" deposit of gas condensate in the Hassi R'mel field in the Sahara desert.

Algeria said Wednesday it was suspending a decades-old co-operation treaty with Spain, after Madrid backed the position of the North African country's arch-rival Morocco on the disputed Western Sahara.

Ihsane El Kadi, director of Radio M and news website Maghreb Emergent, was also fined 50,000 dinars (322 euros), Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights said. He remains at liberty as the court in Algiers did not issue a warrant for his arrest.

The bodies of two men were found in the hold of an Air Algerie plane at Algiers International Airport on Saturday, Algerian police said.

Prosecutors in Algeria on Thursday said ex-football star Rabah Madjer should be jailed for 18 months, during his ongoing trial for fraud.

Iraq's State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO) has said it approached France about the possibility of Iraq's supplying the European market with oil. The Organization's General Manager Alaa Al-Yasiri said that French parties concerned with the possibility of being supplied with oil have been addressed but gave no further...

Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, the Saudi Foreign Minister had arrived in the Algerian capital earlier on Wednesday evening.

Qatar on Wednesday said it plans to invest an additional $5 billion in Spain on the second day of a state visit by its emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. "The volume of investments agreed upon with the Spanish side amounts to $5 billion in various sectors," said Qatari Foreign...

Qatar's emir began a state visit to Spain on Tuesday as Europe seeks to diversify its natural gas supply sources to reduce its energy dependence on Russia. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani was welcomed by King Felipe VI at Madrid's royal palace at the start of his two-day visit, his...

An Algerian military officer and close ally of the former army chief has been sentenced to death over charges of "high treason", the French-language daily El Watan reported Sunday. While courts continue to hand out death sentences in Algeria, there has been a moratorium on capital punishment since 1993.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited gas-producing ally Algeria for talks Tuesday as a European drive to secure alternative supplies gathers pace. Lavrov, who arrived in Algiers late Monday, was due to hold talks with both Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra and President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Algerian reports said. His visit is...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch on Friday called on Algerian authorities to lift "arbitrary travel bans" on activists from the diaspora. The watchdogs singled out the cases of three Algerian-Canadians prevented from returning to their homes in Canada between January and April. "Although one of the three was finally...

One of Algeria's leading opposition figures, Karim Tabbou, has been arrested again, rights groups have said. Tabbou was one of the most-recognizable faces during unprecedented mass rallies, led by the Hirak pro-democracy movement, that began in February 2019. They demanded a sweeping overhaul of the ruling system in place since...

Gas giant Algeria threatened Wednesday to break a contract to supply gas to Spain if Madrid transferred it onwards to "a third destination", amid tensions with regional rival Morocco. Algeria's state-owned energy giant Sonatrach supplied more than 40 percent of Madrid's natural gas imports in 2021.

Meanwhile, Italy is also looking into buying or renting two floating storage and regasification units (FSRU) to allow it to import more LNG. Diversification will not be cheap, warn experts, who foresee extra taxes passed on to businesses and families.

Algeria, which backs the Polisario independence movement in the former Spanish colony, had in March recalled its envoy to Madrid.

France and Algeria have been attempting to improve their ties after a diplomatic crisis.

Between 1864 and 1897, as French colonial troops advanced through Algeria, 2,100 people were tried by special or military courts and deported to New Caledonia.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi arrived in gas powerhouse Algeria on Monday as Rome steps up efforts to reduce its heavy reliance on Russian energy imports. Italy buys the vast majority of its natural gas from overseas, with over 40 percent of those imports coming from Russia. But the war...

The move came after Madrid reversed decades of neutrality on the Western Sahara conflict in a U-turn that has angered Algeria.

Authorities opened an inquest Friday into the death of a 16-year-old girl after she was mauled as she walked to school in Tunisia.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday pardoned over 1,000 convicts and ordered "clemency measures" for 70 people detained over links to the country's Hirak protest movement, to coincide with Ramadan. Tebboune signed "a presidential decree pardoning 1,076 convicted detainees" on the occasion of the start of  Ramadan, the presidency said,...

Algiers last month recalled its ambassador from Madrid in protest at a decision by Spain to back a Moroccan autonomy plan for the ex-Spanish colony of Western Sahara.

Earlier this month, Spain dramatically reversed decades of policy, backing Rabat’s 2007 ‘autonomy’ plan in what Moroccans hailed as a ‘diplomatic coup’.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel, the West Bank, Morocco, and Algeria over March 26-30 to discuss the Ukraine war, Israeli-Palestinian relations, the Iran nuclear deal, and gas from Algeria, among other things, the US State Department has announced.

Four of the six GCC members feature within the top 50 of the World Happiness Report, and are atop the rankings among the Arab countries.

Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya, along with several other Arab countries, import much of their wheat from Ukraine and Russia.

The MoU was signed in Riyadh between Saudi Attorney General Sheikh Saud bin Abdullah Al-Mujib with Algerian Algerian Minister of Justice Abdul Rashid Tabbi.

Under Tunisian law, single women can only freeze their eggs if they are facing medical treatment. The eggs are stored for five years, renewable on the patient's request.