Algeria

Incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is widely expected to secure a second term

In her filing Olympic gold medallist describes social media criticism as immoral and aims to shift global views

With powerful 1.79 metre physique, 25-year-old is object of a Paris Olympic Games gender controversy

Missing since 1998, now 45 years old Omar B was found being held by neighbour 200 metres away from home

Local-based team beat hosts Algeria 5-4 on penalties to add to their AFCON crown

Country joins race to replace Guinea after it was stripped over unprepared infrastructure

Spokesperson says recent posts did not belong to the mission

Algerian brothers became infuriated after learning their sick mother was given shower by neighbours

Reigning champions suffer abject 3-1 defeat at the hands of Ivory Coast to leave event with one point

Equatorial Guinea end defending champion’s 36-game unbeaten run with 1-0 win

Captain scores free-kick before converting penalty to help team bag massive 6-1 win in World Cup qualifying match

Nourine and his coach Benikhlef have their accreditation withdrawn, will be sent home

Fethi Nourine cites political support for Palestinian cause as reason by his withdrawal

The Desert Foxes have won 15 and drawn five competitive and last lost, away to Benin two years ago

Sergey Lavrov says Washington's plan will not solve Palestinian issue, suggests Middle East Quartet as mediator

An overview of new and ongoing demonstrations

It will be the first final to feature two local coaches since 1998

Algerian star was part of the Blues team that edged out the Reds for the English title last season

Mahrez and Mane will renew their Premier League rivalry for a second time for Friday's final in Egypt

Riotous celebrations erupted around the country after Algeria beat Nigeria 2-1 in the semi-final

Algeria will take on Sadio Mane's Senegal for the title on July 19, in a repeat of a group stage clash they won 1-0

Algeria top Group C while the Champions League-winning forward's team were runners-up with six points

Protesters have been calling for a generation of new leaders to replace a ruling elite dominated by the military

82-year-old president says he would not stand for a fifth term

Judges to form new association

Despite a ban dating back to 2001, demonstrations have been staged almost daily in the capital Algiers

Ben Hamou, 26, is first southerner to win title that leads to shot at Miss World crown

Saudi Arabia has said the prince had no prior knowledge of Khashoggi's murder

Tools unearthed near dozens of fossilized animal bones contained cut marks as if relics of prehistoric butchers

Pressure mounts on top producers to prevent spike in oil prices ahead of US sanctions on Iran

Algeria repatriates more than 33,000 migrants since 2014

Algeria government has left migrants, refugees without food or water under piercing sun

Merzoug Touati was sentenced on Thursday and was arrested in 2017 after he alled for protests against a financial law

Morocco has long insisted that Algeria come to the negotiating table

Victims include 26 members of the Western Saharan Polisario independence movement

Hundreds of Algerian women have been abandoned by their husbands or fiances after being diagnosed with breast cancer

Macron said France's colonial past was crime against humanity

Islam is the state religion in Algeria, where Sunni Muslims make up the majority

The ministry's statement did not say whether they had been allowed to seek asylum in Morocco

The birds population has doubled in last 25 years

Lawyers say as more women go into the workplace, tensions over money are causing a surge in divorces

Kasperczak’s men reach quarter-finals with 4-2 victory in Gabon

Side begin Africa Cup of Nations with frustrating 2-2 stalemate with minnows Zimbabwe

In Morocco, a truck collided with a passenger bus on a highway killing 10 people

The burkini has stirred controversy in France, but on the beaches of North Africa, it has made few waves

Authorities have opened an investigation to find out how questions to seven tests were leaked online

It will have the world's tallest minaret and a 20,000 square metres prayer hall accommodating up to 120,000 people

Ait-Ahmed was the last of the nine so-called "sons of Toussaint" who launched an uprising against French rule in 1954