Full Coverage: Algeria

25.07.2008 Petroleum-fuelled prosperity is masking the challenge of oil depletion and removing the sense of urgency that is desperately needed to promote diversification in oil-exporting states, a report warns.

16.01.2008 Algérie Télécom is the first African telecoms operator to put together a business strategy that includes Fibre-To-The-Home. Although the price of connecting households to fibre has dropped considerably elsewhere, it still remains an expensive way to provide a local connection. However, the prize it is seeking to create is a large user base for its forthcoming triple play offer.

29.08.2007 Algeria and the United States have ratified a second agreement which is extending over the next five years, to cooperate in science and technology.

10.07.2006 Beatings, electric shocks and the forced ingestion of dirty water, urine and chemicals are among the methods that continue to be used by Algeria's security forces with systematic impunity, Amnesty International said in a report published today.

11.07.2005 The ambassadors of the United States of America and United Kingdom and representatives of European Commission met the Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, Ilirian Celibashi, on Friday. They expressed their concern over the slow vote count and the lack of cooperation between the political parties to speed up the process.

10.01.2005 Tomorrow Algeria appears before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to defend its record. Amnesty says that the country does little to protect women from violence and discrimination.

17.11.2004 In the novel Wolf Dreams, Algerian author Yasmina Khadra portrays the life of a poor young boy with big dreams who finally goes on to become a terrorist. Though many experts believe that the link between poverty and terrorism is debatable, development practitioners believe that poverty is one of the causes of terrorism.
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27.02.2004 La couverture de l'information algérienne par les médias étrangers est menacée par une nouvelle décision du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, qui désormais refuse d'accréditer un même journaliste pour plusieurs médias étrangers. Un décret devrait être prochainement adopté pour entériner cette mesure.

11.02.2004 Alors que débute la première semaine de la campagne officielle pour l'élection présidentielle du 8 avril, Amnistie internationale demande à tous les candidats de s'engager à accorder la plus grande attention aux découvertes de fosses communes contenant les restes de victimes présumées des violations massives des droits humains perpétrées au cours des dix dernières années.

01.11.2003 Tandis que les ministres de l'Union européenne (UE) et la Commission européenne s'apprêtent à rencontrer le ministre algérien des affaires étrangères à Rome, lundi 3 novembre 2003, Amnesty International demande à la Présidence italienne de l'UE d'exiger que l'Algérie prouve qu'elle est disposée à honorer ses engagements inscrits dans l'accord d'association signé par l'UE et l'Algérie, que toutes les parties doivent bientôt ratifier.

18.09.2003 Depuis quelques années, les autorités algériennes parlent de plus en plus de changement. Ainsi, le 5 avril dernier, le Ministre de l'immigration du Canada Denis Coderre a suspendu le moratoire sur le renvoi des ressortissantEs AlgérienNEs malgré les protestations des groupes de défense des droits. Cependant, le nouveau rapport d’Amnistie internationale confirme que la situation des droits humains en Algérie demeure très préoccupante.

22.05.2003 The Algerian government has expressed alarm at the high rate of teachers leaving the profession in primary schools. Teacher attrition in Kampala's primary schools stands at 35 per cent. Most of these teachers just walk out of the profession and disappear without informing their superiors.

16.03.2003 The prevailing uncertainty over Iraq will cast a heavy shadow over the 59th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which convenes this week and will run through April 25.

06.03.2003 Women continue to endure some of the the worst consequences of war, even where this suffering could be avoided, says a leading relief agency ahead of International Women's Day, 8 March.

06.03.2003 As an Iraqi invasion looms, the International Committee of the Red Cross reminds us that women continue to bear the consequences of war, even where this suffering could be avoided.

25.11.2002 Algeria, Bolivia and Britain were today handed "Gold Duck Awards" by a leading environmental group for effective wetlands management, while Spain and Russia received "Dead Duck Awards" for poor performance.

21.10.2002 Uganda has been elected as one of Africa's representatives on the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council. The Council is the Union's supreme administrative organ and is responsible for policies that include spectrum regulation for telecom and Internet applications. Other African countries that have been elected are: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Mali, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Burkina Faso and Cameroon.

10.10.2002 Depuis la levée du moratoire en avril dernier, le gouvernement canadien a adopté une nouvelle politique envers les sans-statut algériens qui vise à les renvoyer chez eux. Le Comité des sans-status dénonce la décision d'Immigration Canada.

10.10.2002 Depuis la levée du moratoire en avril dernier, le gouvernement canadien a adopté une nouvelle politique envers les sans-statut algériens qui vise à les renvoyer chez eux. Le Comité des sans-status dénonce la décision d'Immigration Canada.

05.09.2002 With food stocks running low, Western Saharan refugees living in camps along the Algerian border face the threat of a humanitarian crisis, the World Food Programme warned yesterday.