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 ...

On today’s show, our friends from the podcast, Kerning Cultures, bring us Black Panthers in Algeria. Its the story of when Elaine Mokhtefi landed in newly independent Algeria in the early 1960s and ...

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 ...

During the 1990s, Algeria endured a brutal civil conflict, often referred to as the “Black Decade,” in which an estimated 150,000 people were killed. This period exposed the fragility of the ...

FILE - Algerian author Boualem Sansal, a members of the Jury, at the press conference speaks during the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.