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France will send Algeria the remains of 24 resistance fighters killed during the French colonisation of the North African country.
Karim Tabbou was arrested by Algerian authorities in 2019 on charges of “incitement to violence” and “harming national security” but he may be released today.
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, the Algerian government has passed two laws endangering the freedoms of the Amazigh people, according to Minority Rights Group International.
In Iran, nearly 11,000 have died due to Covid-19, whereas Turkey is urging the EU to include it in the list of 'safe' coronavirus partners.
The Algerian elite have been culled as key figures have been jailed on corruption charges.
The United States has removed the Saudi kingdom from its Tier 3 trafficking list.
Algeria is the worst-affected country in the Maghreb region, with a total of 12,695 cases of the respiratory illness, including 885 deaths.
The rights group says Tebboune's crackdown on anti-government activists is preventing true constitutional reform.
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday criticised foreign intervention in his country and warned against efforts to divide neighbouring Libya.
Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune, elected in a partly boycotted vote last year, has reshuffled the cabinet amid economic woes spurred by a drop in oil prices and the coronavirus crisis.
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