Algeria

ALGIERS, June 14 (NNN-APS) – Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, advocated the draft constitution, allowing the armed forces to participate in missions outside the country.

“It would be possible, according to the proposed amendments to the constitution, that our armed forces to act abroad, as part of peacekeeping missions of the United Nations,” Tebboune said, in a press briefing.

President Tebboune stressed, “the participation of Algerian armed forces in missions outside the country’s border is not aimed at raiding any country but rather to maintain peace.”

26 April 2020; MEMO: Algeria has taken further steps to ease restrictions over the novel coronavirus by allowing several businesses to reopen “to reduce the economic and social impact of the health crisis” caused by the pandemic, the prime minister’s office said on Saturday, Reuters reports.

19 April 2020; MEMO: Algeria will extend a lockdown by 10 days until April 29 as it tries to limit the spread of the coronavirus amid increases in deaths and confirmed cases, the prime minister’s office said on Saturday.

The government had imposed a full lockdown in the Blida area, south of the capital Algiers, and a night curfew in the country’s remaining 47 provinces until April 19.

ALGIERS, Apr 5 (NNN-APS) – Algeria declared a nationwide lock-down to slow down the spread of COVID-19, which claimed 130 lives in the country.

The Algerian government, said that, a full lock-down has been maintained in the epicentre of the virus outbreak, the province of Blida.

Meanwhile, in nine provinces including Algiers, Oran, Medea, Setif, Ain Defla, Bejaia, Tizi Ouzou, Tlemcen and Tipaza, a partial lock-down will continue from 3.00 p.m. to 7.00 a.m., the statement added.

02 April 2020; MEMO: On Wednesday an Algerian court sentenced the former director-general of the Algerian police, Major General Abdelghani Hamel, to 15 years in prison on charges of corruption and illicit enrichment, along with members of his family.

01 April 2020; MEMO: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Tuesday urged citizens to be “disciplined” to help overcome the coronavirus outbreak even as the number of cases and deaths rose.

Tebboune said on state television that the government is still able to handle the situation despite a fall in energy earnings, the main source of state finances.

01 April 2020; MEMO:Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is living alone in complete isolation in his medically equipped home in Zeralda in Algiers, a year after he abdicated power under the pressure of people and the army.

ALGIERS, Mar 5 (NNN-XINHUA) – Algerian Foreign Minister, Sabri Boukadoum, denied reports alleging that it has disputes with Spain, over maritime borders.

“The reports that alleged the two Mediterranean nations have had problems over maritime frontiers and islands are mere lies,” Boukadoum said, at a press conference with visiting Spanish counterpart, Arancha Gonzalez Laya.

“Algeria is a peaceful country and does not have aggressive policy against anyone in the world, especially with neighbouring countries, including Spain, an important and strategic neighbour.”

ALGIERS, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad on Tuesday said one of the most important challenges of the government is to get Algeria out of a "critical" political and economic stage into a new era in which people's confidence in the country's institutions will be restored.

Djerad made the remarks during the presentation of his government's Plan of Action before the members of the People's National Assembly (lower house of the parliament) in a plenary session.

06 Feb 2020; MEMO: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune yesterday issued a presidential amnesty for 3,471 prisoners.

The Algerian presidency said in a statement that Tebboune signed a presidential decree that included amnesty measures in favour of the first batch of 3,471 prisoners, who have been imprisoned for a period equal to or less than six months.