The Kabyles number about 10 million. They are Berbers descended from the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa. Converted to Islam by the 9th century, the Berbers now make up about a third of Algeria’s ...
Twenty-two Algerian demonstrators were handed one-year jail sentences Tuesday for "undermining national unity" by bearing the Berber minority's flag during anti-regime protests, a prisoners' rights ...
JEBLA, Algeria (Reuters) - The mountains of northern Algeria have long sheltered outlaws, but it's not just rugged terrain that draws al Qaeda to ravines and forests. Sign up here. The local Berber ...
Algeria's parliament meets from Wednesday to consider a package of constitutional reforms that authorities say will strengthen democracy but critics have denounced as window dressing. Analysts say the ...
According to historical records, they are believed to have inhabited this region for at least 10,000BC. The region makes up modern-day countries like Morocco, Libya, Algeria, and Tunisia. Berbers can ...
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria has translated the Koran into the Berber language, Tamazight, for the first time, to promote Islam among a community that has long campaigned for more language and cultural ...
NPR's Kate Seelye in Algiers reports on growing anti-government sentiment in Algeria. Police and paramilitary forces prevented a planned demonstration in the capital today. Protesters, led by ethnic ...
In his special cell at Algiers’ Maison Carrée, Berber Chieftain Hocine Aït Ahmed, 38, jailed since October 1964 for his campaign to overthrow ex-President Ahmed ben Bella, received special treatment.
More than 5,000,000 Algerians last week voted for their nation’s first Parliament. In the big coastal cities, a few of the 200,000 Europeans still remaining in Algeria lined up with turbaned Arabs. In ...