Algeria
Facts and historical events related to Algeria, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive and the On This Day collection.
- Liamine Zéroual, Algerian general who served as President of Algeria during the country's civil war, died. (2026)
- 🚨🚨 BREAKING: According to reports, a portion of leaked gender test result (attached) purportedly shows th…
- BREAKING: Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxing Olympic gold medalist who was accused of being a MAN, has been…
- These African countries don't recognize the State of Israel: (forbid passport holders and any other passpor…
- Africa's top 20 military powers today ranked by country, from strongest to weakest. 1. Egypt🇪🇬 Algeria🇩�…
- Countries with the cheapest cost to purchase 1 Gigabyte of mobile data in Africa: Sudan 🇸🇩 - 27 cents (US…
- African nations with the highest number of Internet users (millions) 1. Nigeria 🇳🇬 154.3 million 2. Egypt…
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who served as president of Algeria for 20 years before being forced to resign amid ma… (2021)
- Thousands gather in Kherrata, Algeria, to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. (2021)
- We're wishing a Happy 80th birthday to one of the greatest soccer players of all time, @Pele In January 196…
- African Powers Ranked by Military Strength: 1 Egypt🇪🇬 2 Algeria🇩🇿 3 SA🇿🇦 4 Nigeria🇳🇬 5 Ethiopia🇪🇹…
- UPDATE: 18 of Africa's 54 countries that have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with all 5 deaths occurring i…
- BREAKING: The dreaded coronavirus #COVIDー19 has entered Africa again via an Italian visiting Algeria. This…
- Nigeria has the worst police in the world, followed by DRC, Kenya and Uganda, says the World Internal Secur…
- The 10 most competitive economies in Africa, 2019. 1.Mauritius 🇲🇺 2. South Africa 🇿🇦 3. Morocco 🇲🇦 4.…
- Latest FIFA Rankings—Top 20 African countries Senegal🇸🇳20th Tunisia🇹🇳29 Nigeria🇳🇬33 Algeria🇩🇿40th M…
- #BREAKING Following the continual protests of the people in thousands, Algeria President Abdelaziz Boutefli…
- 8 African nations have lunched 28 satellites into space: South Africa🇿🇦 (6) Nigeria🇳🇬 (6) Algeria🇩🇿 (…
- An Algerian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 military transport crashed shortly after takeoff near Boufarik, Algeri… (2018)
- These African countries don't recognize Israel: (forbid passport holders 🚫) Algeria🚫 Niger Chad Sudan🚫 L…
- The magnificent Emir Abdelkader Mosque at Constantine, Algeria. Named after the "Father of Algerian nationa…
- 1. Emir Abdelkader resisted French colonization of Algeria for 15 years and SAVED 10,000 Christians from GE…
- Nelson Mandela in exile undergoing military training at an Algerian Liberation Front camp in Algeria, 1962.
- Algeria = Africa's biggest country (area); 10th worldwide; Yet over 90% of its people live in just 12% of t…
- French (soccer) internationals Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) and Samir Nasri (Man. City) are fully of Algeria…
- France says 'fuck off Algeria', refuse to acknowledge colonial crimes Even Germany that wiped out 100,000 N…
- French senator Gerard Longuet giving "the arm" when asked to acknowledge "crimes... by French colonialism”…
- 22 African Nobel Prize winners: (R)SA - 10 Egypt - 4 Algeria - 2 Liberia - 2 Nigeria - 1 Kenya - 1 Zim - 1…
- The Global Fire Power (GFP) on nations military strength ranks Egypt, Algeria, Ethiopia, South Africa & Nig…
- Malcolm X in 1959 & 1964 visited Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Sudan, Senegal, Liberia…
- For everything on the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) that ended over 130 years of French colonial r…
- French soccer legend, Zinedine Zidane, is a Berber, born to Smaïl and Malika who emigrated to Paris from Ag…
- The Sahara Desert covers at least part of of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger,…
- A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province, Algeria, killing 77 pe… (2014)
- Only 12% of the total land in Algeria is inhabited by over 90% of its population.
- Algeria is home to the 8th largest natural gas reserve in the world and is the 4th largest gas exporter.
- Algeria is Africa's largest country, but over 90% of Algerians live along the Mediterranean coastlands on o…
- Algeria became the largest country in Africa and the 10th largest in the world in 2011, after South Sudan s…
- In 1988 Libya's Gaddafi wore a white glove to avoid touching the “blood-stained hands” of fellow Arab leade…
- Over 80% of Algeria's land is occupied by the Sahara Desert.