Algeria
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Red dunes turn white as record snowfall blankets desert near town of Aïn Séfra in Algeria
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Mohamed Tamalt, who was imprisoned after sharing poem about Algerian president on Facebook, dies in hospital
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The novelist explains why he turned to boxing to tell the story of his country’s struggle against France’s bloody postwar repression
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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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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
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Five men, nine women and 20 children abandoned by people smugglers die while trying to reach Algeria
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The Djamaa El Djazair mosque will include a one-million book library, accommodate up to 120,000 worshippers and boast a 265m-high minaret
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The US’s European allies have become comfortably well-off and lazy and neglected the basics of self-defence
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Alexandre Trudeau calls detention and potential deportation of an Algerian man ‘fundamentally unfair’
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Editorial: Some rue the get-rich-quick allure of oil in emerging nations. Whatever happens, the geopolitical consequences of falling prices are myriad and unpredictable
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Measures would limit presidents to two terms and make Berber language official
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Key figure in Algeria’s struggle for independence is laid to rest in village that bears his name
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A timely, account of ‘harragas’ – north African migrants who head for Europe – and the pain of those left behind
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Fest 213 music event in Constantine unites new generation of metalheads, who say the music is not contrary to Islam
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At least 43 people injured in pre-dawn blaze at camp housing about 600 migrants 500 miles south-east of Algiers
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Forty years after Morocco annexed the western Sahara following the withdrawal of Spain’s forces, tens of thousands of Sahrawi refugees still live in camps around Tindouf in Algeria
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Tributes paid by colleagues to former Guardian reporter, who scooped Fleet Street with news that the German army was about to start the second world war
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He dared to describe people displaced from Western Sahara as ‘refugees’
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A week in Africa Pourquoi ne pensons-nous pas à l’Afrique du Nord comme faisant partie de l’Afrique?
Iman AmraniJe suis algérienne, mais il semble parfois que ‘noir Africain’ soit la seule catégorie qui existe. En réalité, un fort ciment nous unit à travers notre histoire commune -
I’m Algerian but sometimes it seems that ‘black African’ is the only category that exists. In truth, through our shared history there’s a strong glue that connects us
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From Ashley Madison to Aylan Kurdi, how Africa’s cartoonists interpret the world
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Mahi Tabet-Aoul says Algeria is not responsible for a large amount of greenhouse gases, but it will still suffer greatly from the impact of climate change, reports El Watan de Algerie
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Survey by Reporters Without Borders of the political leaders who intimidate, insult and jail editors and reporters who dare to hold them to account
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The brother of ‘the Arab’ murdered in Camus’ masterpiece gets a revenge of sorts in this astonishing take on French colonialism
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Retelling Camus’s The Outsider through Arab eyes, this debut novel develops a specifically Algerian take on the absurd condition
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Niger has recorded 33 fatalities this year, but the International Organisation for Migration says the figure is at least 50
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From the Guardian archive From the archive, 16 June 1975: A clasp of lethal friendship for de Gaulle
Originally published in the Guardian on 16 June 1975: The CIA reveals it was asked to help kill the French president in 1965 -
Mokhtar Belmokhtar has been reported dead before, only to re-emerge and lead the infamous attack on an Algerian gas plant that claimed the lives of 39 hostages
Developing world leaders pay respects to Castro, their champion during cold war