In a village nestled in the mountains of northeastern Algeria, locals and visitors gathered under a cold winter sky to ...

BJAA: In a village nestled in the mountains of north-eastern Algeria, locals and visitors gathered under a cold winter sky to celebrate Tamechrit, a centuries-old Berber tradition rooted in sharing.

Béjaïa (Algeria) (AFP ... The minority community of Berbers refer to themselves as the Amazigh, meaning "free people". They have long fought for recognition for their ancient culture ...

Algiers Province, Algeria - January 12, 2025 The "Amazigh", an Indigenous population of North Africa, is celebrating the Berber New Year, an ancestral event. Camera: LAURA FERNÁNDEZ PALOMO.

Seeking to preserve a practice that faded during the Algerian civil war of the 1990s, villagers marked Tamechrit with Berber music and food on the occasion coinciding in January with the Amazigh new ...

America’s new top diplomat has rarely focused on Africa during his 14 years in the Senate, making his repeated criticism of Algeria particularly noteworthy. Trump’s aid suspension: Which African ...

Zbiri, still at large, commands the loyalties of a good many of Algeria’s military men. Also behind him are the country’s Berber minority, the revolutionary zealots who despise Boumediene’s ...

The Tuareg people are among the indigenous Berber groups populating the Sahara, in the south of Algeria and the north of Mali and Niger. They took up arms in 2012, following previous rebellions ...

Berbers, however, with their languages and customs, still live in small niches of Northern Morocco and Algeria, and in some Northern Oases of the Sahara, including those of the Mzab (Algeria).

Algeria's parliament adopted a package of constitutional reforms Sunday that authorities say will strengthen democracy, but opponents doubt it will bring real change. The reforms are meant to ...

An emblematic figure in the defense of Berber culture, Mouloud Mammeri (1917-1989) experienced numerous confrontations with the authorities in Algeria, including the suspension in 1973 of the ...