Zidane’s son Luca to play for Algeria instead of France
- 20-Sep-2025
Luca Zidane, the 27-year-old goalkeeper and son of French football great Zinedine Zidane, has switched his sporting nationality from France to Algeria, the Algerian Football Federation said on Friday.
Algeria asks 12 French officials to leave in 48 hours
- 14-Apr-2025
PARIS: Algeria has asked 12 French officials to leave in 48 hours, the French foreign minister said Monday, adding that this was linked to the arrest of three Algerian nationals in France. “I am asking Algerian authorities to abandon these expulsion measures… if the decision to send back our officials is maintained, we will have […]
“My child is a girl”: Imane Khelif’s father speaks up after Paris 2024 controversy
- 03-Aug-2024
From a small Algerian village, home of the boxer Imane Khelif at the centre of a gender eligibility row in the Paris Olympics, her father hailed the athlete as a “heroine”. Omar Khelif told AFP that he had raised his daughter “to be brave”, as he proudly showed off a picture of her aged seven […]
9 dead in Algeria after bus collides with tanker
- 21-Aug-2022
Nine people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a fuel tanker in southeast Algeria, the civil defence said on Sunday. The crash, in which six other people were injured, happened Saturday night in Illizi, a statement said, without identifying the cause of the crash. Speed is the main cause of road […]
Seven bodies wash up on Algeria beach
- 02-Jan-2021
The bodies of the three men and four women had started decomposing and their identities were not immediately clear
Erdogan visits Algeria to discuss Libya, boost trade links
- 26-Jan-2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday visited Algeria for talks on the conflict in neighbouring Libya and plans to boost trade links.
Algeria’s ancient pyramid tombs still shrouded in mystery
- 14-Jan-2019
Algeria's pyramid tombs are unique relics of an ancient era but a dearth of research has left the Jeddars shrouded in mystery
Passengers hospitalised after suspected cholera case on Algeria-France flight
- 05-Sep-2018
TOULOUSE: French authorities evacuated 141 passengers and crew from a flight arriving in the French city of Perpignan from Algeria on Wednesday after a child on board was suspected of being infected with cholera, the fire brigade said. The eight-year-old child was taken to hospital for checks after suffering bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea during […]
Algeria goes offline to stop students cheating
- 20-Jun-2018
ALGIERS: Algeria went offline on Wednesday for the start of high school diploma exams, the first in a series of internet blackouts to stop students cheating. Mobile and fixed internet lines were cut across the country for a total of two hours, to coincide with the start of two separate school tests, AFP journalists in […]
More than 250 killed in Algerian military plane crash
- 11-Apr-2018
More than 250 people were killed when a military plane crashed in a field outside Algeria’s capital on Wednesday, in the country’s worst air disaster.