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Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune declares three days of national mourning after 12 people were reported to be killed in wildfires in northeastern Jijel.
2026-08-27

Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune appoints Sifi Ghrieb as prime minister following Nadir Larbaoui's dismissal in August.
2025-09-14

Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune dismisses Prime Minister Nadir Larbaoui and appoints industry minister Sifi Ghrieb as acting prime minister.
2025-08-28

The death toll from the wildfires in northern Algeria increases to 65, as the country battles a total of 69 fires for the fourth consecutive day. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declares three days of national mourning for the wildfire victims.
2021-08-11

Algerian citizens head to the polls to vote for a new session to the People's National Assembly for the first time since former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was deposed in 2019. Turnout is the lowest in 20 years due to boycotts over the arrest of seven Hirak movement leaders.
2021-06-12

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returns to Algeria following treatment in Germany for COVID-19 since November.
2020-12-29

Citizens of Algeria head to the polls to decide over a proposed amendmend of the country's constitution. The proposal is supported by president Abdelmadjid Tebboune and the military as a reaction to widespread protests which resulted in the resignation of long-term president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
2020-11-1

The military court in Blida sentences Mohamed Mediène, Said Bouteflika Bouteflika, Bachir Tartag Tartag and Louisa Hanoune, four persons from the ruling elite around former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to 15-year jail terms for conspiracy against the army and the authority of the Algerian state.
2019-09-25

Algeria's Chief of Staff of the People's National Army Ahmed Gaid Salah, the highest-ranked military official in the country, gives a televised address, calling on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign or be declared "unfit to serve" by the People's National Assembly.
2019-03-26

Hundreds of thousands of Algerians again rally, this week in heavy rain and cold weather, against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika demanding his immediate resignation. Bouteflika is fighting for his political survival in the face of unrelenting protests and the desertion of long-time allies.
2019-03-22