Algeria has scheduled this year’s presidential elections for September 7, providing more than five months for first-term President Abdelmajid Tebboune to campaign for a second term to lead the ...

Algerian president and candidate for re-election Abdelmajid Tebboune delivers a speech as part of his campaign for the upcoming presidential election, in Djanet, Algeria, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024.

A supporters of Algerian President and candidate for reelection Abdelmadjid Tebboune campaigns ahead of the Sept.7 2024 presidential election, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024 in Algiers.

Algeria's National Independent Election Authority, or ANIE, on Sunday announced that Tebboune had won 94.7% of Saturday’s vote, far outpacing his challengers Islamist Abdelali Hassani Cherif ...

ALGIERS, Algeria – Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria's first president and a historic leader of its bloody independence struggle from France, died at his family home in Algiers on Wednesday. He was 95.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the ailing Algerian president whose candidacy has spawned weeks of protests in his tightly controlled nation, announced Monday that he would not seek a fifth term in office.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Muriam Davis, associate professor at the University of California Santa Cruz, about this month's protests that ousted Algeria's president after 20 years in power.