This black market for foreign currencies is among the signs of the economic woes plaguing Algeria. The state ... subsidies and price controls that keep people afloat. In the oil-rich North ...

Recently, there were reports an al-Qaeda affiliate abandoned a training camp in Algeria after 40 men died from being exposed to the plague during a biological weapons test. The report ...

Algeria was the only French colony in Africa occupied by a white settler population. Known as the pieds noires they numbered nearly a million. They took the most fertile 23 per cent of the country ...

Followed by more than 300,000 people, she is accused of spreading ... support from the so called “pieds-noirs” (black feet) -- French who left Algeria for France when colonial rule ended.