Algerian officials had argued strongly against reopening the trauma of the “Black Decade ... blamed for the disappearance of thousands of people who were later presumed dead, rights groups ...

This black market for foreign currencies is among the signs of the economic woes plaguing Algeria. The state ... subsidies and price controls that keep people afloat. In the oil-rich North ...

Recently, there were reports an al-Qaeda affiliate abandoned a training camp in Algeria after 40 men died from being exposed to the plague during a biological weapons test. The report ...

Algeria was the only French colony in Africa occupied by a white settler population. Known as the pieds noires they numbered nearly a million. They took the most fertile 23 per cent of the country ...