Vol 49 No 25 | ALGERIA Another third term in Africa 12th December 2008 Algeria’s 12 November constitutional amendment consisted of two main proposals: to remove the limit of two five-year terms for the president, and to change the title and role of ‘h...
Vol 48 No 11 | ALGERIA Not my party 25th May 2007 Algerians were fascinated and concerned by Nicolas Sarkozy's win in the French presidential poll. Many worry about the upsurge in terrorism at home and persistent reports about Pre...
Vol 48 No 9 | ALGERIAMAGHREB Under attack 27th April 2007 Algeria's Islamist underground is largely home grown but benefits from foreign attachments The Algiers bombings of 11 April confirmed that the radical Islamist underground was on the move. For years, it has been confined largely to its strongholds in parts of Kabylie - t...
Vol 48 No 9 | ALGERIA Khalifa in court 27th April 2007 The celebrities were missing from Algeria's 'trial of the century' at Blida Criminal Court, when Judge Fatiha Brihimi sentenced fugitive banker Rafik Abdelmoumen Khalifa to life im...
Vol 47 No 3 | ALGERIA The President's generals 3rd February 2006 The President may be back but succession rumours are festering President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has spent much of the last three months in the Val-de-Grâce military hospital in Paris, being treated for what was eventually announced to be a...
Vol 46 No 6 | ALGERIA Abdelaziz of Arabia 18th March 2005 President Bouteflika wants the Arab summit to underline his domination of regional politics On 22-23 March, Algiers hosts the League of Arab States summit and will consummate its return to the top table of Arab politics, or so President Abdelaziz Bouteflika believes. The ...
Vol 45 No 16 | ALGERIA Military matters 6th August 2004 The 3 August announcement that Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Mohamed Lamari had resigned for health reasons (for treatment in Spain for an eye condition) came after weeks of ne...
Vol 45 No 6 | ALGERIA A man for election seasons 19th March 2004 Algerians dislike their clever President but they'll probably re-elect him On 8 April, Abdelaziz Bouteflika will almost certainly become Algeria's first civilian president to win re-election. If he does, it will reflect less on his popularity than his hol...
Vol 45 No 6 | ALGERIA Le Para moves east 19th March 2004 On 9-10 March, fighting in Chad's Tibesti region, near the Niger border, indicated that fighters from Algeria's biggest active Islamist militia, the Groupe Salafiste de Préd...
Vol 45 No 5 | ALGERIA Squeezing Le Para 5th March 2004 The Algerian security services' relaxed approach to the growing United States' military presence in the Sahel reflects their concern at the number of arms in circulation, especiall...
