Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, and Ethiopia—are home to some of the continent’s billionaires. ・Top five African ...

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 ...