Smuggling goods across the border between Algeria and Tunisia has created a parallel economy for marginalized border populations. Law enforcement and smugglers alike must navigate these gray zones in...

Dans un entretien au « Monde », Dalia Ghanem, chercheuse spécialiste de l’Algérie, détaille les ressorts de la longévité du pouvoir sous la conduite déterminante de l’armée.

A temporary boost in gas revenues has allowed the government to continue avoiding systemic reforms

Ouargla Province, in central Algeria, is a resource-rich but infrastructure-poor province. As protests there ramp up, Algiers may find itself squeezed on solutions.

Si la mouvance islamiste, dans sa majorité, a renoncé à la fondation d’un califat en Algérie, elle n’est toujours pas disposée à renoncer à l’islamisation de la société ou à l’acceptation d’un espace...

And why that’s unlikely to change — despite protests.

Constitutional amendments would allow Algiers to participate in peacekeeping operations and send army units abroad.

We brought together a team of experts to discuss the role of the military in mass protests in Africa over the last several years and its involvement in the process of democratization.

This Chaillot Paper analyses the EU’s relations with five North African countries – Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. In particular it focuses on how the fallout of the war in Ukraine as

Only eight years after the uprising, Tunisians have shown that they learned, reproduced, and know democratic values

Algiers is shopping a plan to restore democracy after the coup in Niamey and stave off a foreign military intervention

As protesters continue to call for civilian rule, the army has a number of options available, from withdrawing from politics to cracking down

Algeria’s regime has repeatedly adapted the political system in limited ways. But what has worked for the regime up until now may not work indefinitely into the future.

Femicide and other gender-based violence are turning into a real public-health crisis in Algeria. Recent killings have sparked outrage and many Algerians have expressed their anger on social media...

Women are underrepresented in Algeria's business sector. While the state has launched several initiatives to help, more needs to be done to combat misogynistic ideas about women's roles and the...

Even as a growing number of Arab and African states look to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance to help counter the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, Algeria has made it...

Algeria might be more stable because of Bouteflika’s policies, but it still faces significant domestic and regional challenges.

Two military generals and the brother of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika have been acquitted by a military court.

Despite ongoing public dissatisfaction with the government, Algerians, along with much of the global population, remain confined to their homes

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The country has effectively closed down one of the last places in Algeria for freewheeling political debate, which carried on even as the military-backed regime that leads the country grew increasi...