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Algeria blocks internet to prevent students cheating during exams

Nation taken offline and metal detectors set up in exam halls to stop repeat of past fiascos

Published: 22 Jun 2018

From the archive blog De Gaulle returns to power - archive, June 1958

On 1 June 1958, General Charles de Gaulle got the go-ahead to form a new government. With the war in Algeria threatening to bring civil war to France, de Gaulle demanded special powers to restore order and unity

Published: 4 May 2018

Podcast The brutal world of sheep fighting: the illegal sport beloved by Algeria’s 'lost generation' – podcast

For millions of Algerians, life has been shaped by years of conflict, unemployment and state repression. Sheep fighting offers an arena where young men can escape the constant supervision of the state.

Podcast

Published: 2 Mar 2018

The long read The brutal world of sheep fighting: the illegal sport beloved by Algeria’s 'lost generation'

The long read: Algeria’s ‘lost generation’ has been shaped by years of conflict, unemployment and state repression. Sheep fighting offers an arena where young men can escape the constant supervision of the state

Published: 16 Feb 2018

From the agencies Photographer of the year 2017: Zohra Bensemra

This year the picture desk has chosen the Reuters photojournalist Zohra Bensemra as agency photographer of the year

Published: 21 Dec 2017

Migration crisis: the new routes to Europe Adrift in Algiers: African migrants marooned in a new transit bottleneck

With Libya’s civil war closing off usual routes to Europe, desperate sub-Saharan migrants are turning to neighbouring Algeria, where there are few support networks

Published: 31 Oct 2017

From the Guardian archive Jacques Berque, a fighter for Arab culture – archive, 1995

11 July 1995: A very untypical pied-noir and a great theoretician of the Arab-Muslim world

Published: 11 Jul 2017

From the Guardian archive Paramilitary force fights to keep Algeria French – archive, 1962

7 March 1962: The OAS (Secret Army Organisation) is attempting to prevent Algerian independence through a terrorist campaign

Published: 7 Mar 2017

Snow in the Sahara – in pictures

Red dunes turn white as record snowfall blankets desert near town of Aïn Séfra in Algeria

Gallery

Published: 24 Jan 2017

British-Algerian journalist dies after hunger strike

Mohamed Tamalt, who was imprisoned after sharing poem about Algerian president on Facebook, dies in hospital

Published: 12 Dec 2016

Developing world leaders pay respects to Castro, their champion during cold war

From China to South Africa, Algeria to Venezuela, leftwing and anticolonial figures praise man who did not hesitate to send in Cuban troops and medics

Published: 27 Nov 2016

Paperback writer Yasmina Khadra: 'Algeria could have been a paradise for all'

The novelist explains why he turned to boxing to tell the story of his country’s struggle against France’s bloody postwar repression

Published: 4 Oct 2016

Instagram Story: Exploring street art in Algiers

The Guardian’s Iman Amrani finds herself and her camera at a cultural event organised by young street artists in the capital of Algeria.

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Published: 24 Sep 2016

Everything you need to know about being gay in Muslim countries

The official fiction, Brian Whitaker explains, is that gay people don’t exist in the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attitudes of family and society are a bigger problem than fear of being persecuted

Published: 21 Jun 2016
Bodies of 34 migrants found in Niger desert

Five men, nine women and 20 children abandoned by people smugglers die while trying to reach Algeria

Published: 16 Jun 2016

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