Algeria

Mali begins its vaccination programme against COVID-19 with Fanta Siby, Minister for Health, the first to be inoculated.
© UNICEF/Seyba Keïta

COVID-19 lays bare social inequality says UN chief, as COVAX doses top 36 million

5 April 2021
Health

The COVID crisis "has revealed how unequal our societies are” said the UN chief in his message for World Health Day released on Monday.

Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
UN Photo

Mystery surrounds Algeria article branded ‘complete fabrication’ by UN rights office

4 September 2020
Human Rights

The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) is dismissing as a “complete fabrication” an Algerian news report claiming that a UN tribunal has rejected a complaint by a group of political activists. 

Niger Migrants waiting the charter to board their luggages, in Tripoli, Libya (file photo)
IOM TRIPOLI

News in Brief 15 October 2019

15 October 2019
News in Brief
  • In Syria, violence continues ‘on both sides’ of border with Turkey
  • Concerns over deportation of Haitian migrants from Bahamas to Haiti – OHCHR
  • IOM organizes first humanitarian charter flight from Algeria to Niger
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Yury Fedotov, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
UNODC

News in Brief 22 May 2019

22 May 2019
News in Brief
  • Fighting hate crimes in the courts: UN justice experts meet at Vienna conference
  • UK Government austerity measures have led to ‘record levels of hunger and homelessness’ : independent UN expert
  • Algeria and Argentina officially recognized as malaria-free
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The flag of Algeria (centre) flying at United Nations headquarters in New York..
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

UN chief commends Algerians for ‘mature and calm’ demonstrations for change, leading up to presidential resignation

3 April 2019
Peace and Security

In the wake of the resignation in Algeria of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the UN Secretary-General on Wednesday saluted “the mature and calm nature” of protests involving hundreds of thousands of citizens who took to the streets peacefully in recent weeks, to express “their desire for change.” 

A woman tends to her herd of goats in Niger, a country in Sub-Saharan Africa that recorded the lowest Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2017. As a region, Sub-Saharan Africa fared poorly on development indicators, including health, education and income.
FAO/Andrew Esiebo

Algeria must stop arbitrary expulsion of West African migrants in desert: UN migration rights expert

11 October 2018
Human Rights

Atrocities suffered by child and adult migrants from West African States “should shock the conscience of humanity” into action, a UN rights investigator said on Thursday, before calling for Algeria to halt the collective expulsion of thousands of foreign nationals to Niger.

Human Rights Committee member José Manuel Santos Pais speaking to journalists in Geneva at the end of the UN panel’s current session. 26 July 2018.
UN Geneva/Daniel Johnson

Mass deportation from Algeria of migrants highlighted by UN human rights panel

26 July 2018
Interviews

Algeria’s reluctance to address its violent past has meant that it has “stepped back” on basic human rights, the UN Human Rights Committee said on Thursday, in Geneva.   José Manuel Santos Pais, member of the Human Rights Committee, spoke to UN News on the committee's report on Algeria.

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Children in the migrant neighborhood of Niger’s Niamey, where many people are staying after being expelled from Algeria.
IOM Niger

UN calls on Algeria to stop expelling thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants

22 May 2018
Human Rights

The United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) has called on the Algerian Government to stop collectively expelling thousands of migrants, particularly from sub-Saharan Africa, saying it violates international human rights law.

A building damaged by the 11 December 2007 terrorist attack across the street from the UN Headquarters complex in Algiers. The bombing claimed the lives of 17 United Nations workers.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Recalling Algiers attack, Secretary-General says, 2007 bombing ‘hit heart of the UN’

11 December 2017
Peace and Security

In a message commemorating the 2007 bombing of the United Nations offices in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, Secretary-General António Guterres expressed the Organization’s continuing support to combat terrorism and violent extremism.

Abdelkader Messahel, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Algeria, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-second session.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

Algeria tells Assembly reformed UN necessary for dealing with world’s many crises

22 September 2017
Faced with the same backdrop year after year of unresolved old conflicts and new deadly outbreaks, climate change, impoverishment and under-development, the world has no alternative but to place its hopes in the United Nations, Algeria told the General Assembly today.