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Algeria has more than 30 daily newspapers published in French and Arabic, with a total publication run of more than 1.5 million copies. Although relatively free to write as they choose, in 2001, the government amended the penal code provisions relating to defamation and slander, a step widely viewed as an effort to rein in the press.
Media related to Newspapers of Algeria at Wikimedia Commons . The North Africa Journal-جريدة شمال إفريقيا, official website.; Algerian Newspapers and News Sites List of Algerian newspapers and online news sites in English.
Algeria, [e] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, [f] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Poster announcing the presidential election before it was postponed. Presidential elections were held in Algeria on 12 December 2019. [1] The election had originally been scheduled for 18 April, but was postponed due to sustained weekly protests against plans by the incumbent president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for a fifth term. [2]
The COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ().The virus was confirmed to have spread to Algeria in February 2020. [3]
After the riots of 1988, the Algerian government had moved towards democracy, holding free elections. However, when the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) won the first free parliamentary election in 1991, the military staged a coup d'état, voided the election results, declared a state of emergency which remained in force until 2011, [3] and arrested the FIS leadership.
[1] [2] The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) claimed responsibility for many of them, while for others no group has claimed responsibility. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] These terrorist incidents generated a widespread sense of fear in Algeria. [ 5 ]