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Sep
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria to start Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine production

Algeria to start Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine production

COVID-19
ALGERIA will start production of COVID-19 vaccine Sinovac in partnership with China with the aim of meeting domestic demand and exporting the surplus, the prime minister's office has announced. The government has said production capacity will stand at one million, two million and three million doses in October, November and December respectively, before reaching five million doses per month from January. The North African country has been importing vaccines, mainly Sinovac, since the coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020. The government aims to vaccinate 70% of Algeria's 45 million people. The Sinovac vaccine will be produced in the eastern city…
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Sep
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Algerian crisis interim president Bensalah dies aged 80

Algerian crisis interim president Bensalah dies aged 80

NEWS
ALGERIA’S former interim president Abdelkader Bensalah, who ruled the country during an unprecedented political crisis in 2019, died on Wednesday aged 80, the presidency said. Bensalah was named interim president after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down in April 2019 following mass street protests to reject his plan to seek a fifth term, and demand political and economic reforms. Bouteflika, who ruled the North African country for two decades, himself died on Friday aged 84. Protests continued after the resignation of Bouteflika despite the imprisonment of several senior officials for involvement in corruption cases during Bouteflika era. Bensalah, also head of…
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Sep
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria prepares new investment law, aims for non-energy funding sources

Algeria prepares new investment law, aims for non-energy funding sources

BUSINESS
HAMID OULD AHMED ALGERIA is preparing a new investment law to improve its business climate and attract foreign investors with the aim of boosting the non-energy sector, according to Prime Minister Ayman Benabderrahmane. He also announced plans to develop the country's small stock exchange and launch banking and financial reforms to find new funding sources for the oil-reliant economy. OPEC member Algeria, which relies heavily on oil and gas exports, has been facing financial problems due to lower energy earnings. The situation worsened during the pandemic, which slammed crude demand and pressured international prices. The North African country has so…
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Sep
14
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria arrests more members of MAK separatist group

Algeria arrests more members of MAK separatist group

NEWS
ALGERIA has arrested 16 more members of a separatist group authority have declared a terrorist organisation, according to the paramilitary police. The arrests, which included a journalist, took place in the two mostly Berber-speaking Kabylie provinces of Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia after investigations over wildfires that killed at least 65 people last month, the paramilitary police, or National Gendarmerie, said in a statement. The government has accused MAK, a separatist group in the Kabylie region, east of Algiers, of being behind the devastating forest fires, which hit several provinces, including Tizi Ouzou. Algeria last week said it had detained 30…
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Sep
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria arrests 27 members of separatist group

Algeria arrests 27 members of separatist group

NEWS
Algeria has arrested 27 suspected members of a separatist group that the government has declared a terrorist organisation, after an attack in two northern towns, police have announced. They said the 27 were suspected of belonging to MAK, a group that seeks independence for the Berber-speaking Kabylie region. Morocco's support for MAK was one of the reasons cited by Algeria in cutting diplomatic relations with the kingdom late last month. Police said the 27 were arrested "for their attempt to sow terror and strife among citizens by order of parties abroad," police said in a statement. They resorted to assault…
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Sep
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Moroccan-Algeria diplomat spat rages on

Moroccan-Algeria diplomat spat rages on

NEWS
A senior Moroccan diplomat on Monday renewed comments that were cited by Algeria when it cut off relations with Rabat last week, a move that may escalate the spat between the North African neighbours. Omar Hilale, Morocco's ambassador to the United Nations, drew an equivalency between disputes in the Moroccan-held territory of Western Sahara and the Kabylie region of Algeria in comments cited by Moroccan news agency MAP. His comments are likely to provoke a response from Algeria, which said last week it was cutting off diplomatic ties while keeping consulates in the two countries open. The border between Morocco…
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Jun
21
2021
By The African Mirror
Libya’s Haftar closes border with Algeria

Libya’s Haftar closes border with Algeria

NEWS
FORCES loyal to Libya's eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar have closed the border with Algeria, they said on Sunday, after major deployments of his forces to the south underscored his continued role despite efforts to unify the country. Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) last week sent troops into the southern city of Sebha, which was already allied to eastern forces, and then on Saturday to a southern border crossing with Algeria. "The armed forces has closed the Libyan-Algerian border and declared it a military zone in which movement is prohibited", said the Moral Guidance Department, an LNA media unit. The nearly…
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May
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria plans strict health measures

Algeria plans strict health measures

COVID-19
ALGERIA will impose strict health measures on passengers when it partially resumes international flights next month, the prime minister's office said yesterday. The North African country last week said it would reopen air borders on June 1, but with only five flights a day from and to three local airports. Passengers must have a negative result for COVID-19 from an RT-PCR test dated less than 36 hours before the date of travel to Algeria, the prime minister's office said. All passengers would be quarantined for five days in hotels at their expense, and the quarantine would be extended to 10…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria restricts street protests

Algeria restricts street protests

NEWS
ALGERIA will bar any protests that do not have prior approval, it said on Sunday, a move apparently aimed at the weekly mass demonstrations that ousted a veteran president in 2019 but have continued to demand a more thorough purge of the ruling elite. The Interior Ministry said all protests would need a permit that specified the names of organisers and a start and finishing time for the demonstrations. "Failure to comply with these procedures will result in violating the law and the constitution, which denies the legitimacy of the march, and it will be necessary to deal with it…
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Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria plans to deny nationality to people ‘threatening state’

Algeria plans to deny nationality to people ‘threatening state’

NEWS
ALGERIA plans for the first time to deprive nationality to citizens who commit acts abroad that are liable to "seriously damage the interests of the state or harm the national unity", the prime minister's office has announced. The measure will apply to people who join, finance or glorify a terrorist organisation, it said in a statement after a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad to discuss amendments to the nationality law and other issues. The new provision applies also to "everyone who deals with an enemy country," the statement said. It said the provisions of the law remain compatible…
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