By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Algérie 360
Arezki Berraki, former Minister of Water Resources, has been sentenced to eight years in prison and a fine of one million dinars in the corruption case involving the National Dams and Transfers Agency. The economic and financial criminal division of the Sidi M’hamed court handed down sentences of up to 15 years, according to the Echourouk media outlet.
Algerian journalist Abdelali Mezghiche was sentenced on 8 November 2026 to three years in prison and fined 200,000 dinars by the Chéraga court in Algiers. His lawyer Abdellah Haboul plans to appeal, according to Maghreb Emergent. The verdict follows proceedings over several offences, including the dissemination of content deemed harmful to the national interest.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Source: Maghreb Emergent ·
The Oran criminal court sentenced writer Kamel Daoud and his wife Aïcha Dahdouh to five years in prison and a 300,000 dinar fine, according to Jeune Afrique. The couple, subject to an international arrest warrant, had been prosecuted after a complaint by Saâda Arbane, a survivor of the Black Decade who accuses the writer of having “stolen” her story with the help of his wife, whose patient the complainant had been.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Source: Algérie 360 ·
Algerian Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb has launched a national platform to monitor daily prices of widely consumed products. The government aims to tackle speculation, as potatoes have become difficult to find at the capped price of 90 dinars per kilogram, according to TSA.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Source: TSA ·
In a post on X, former minister adviser to Macky Sall, Yoro Dia, accuses Ousmane Sonko of steering the country down a destructive path. He shares a front page of Le Quotidien on the budget crisis and the risk of a “financial crash”, according to his post of Tuesday 10 November 2026.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Source: SeneNews ·
Algeria raises scholarships for Somali students to 100Algeria has increased the number of scholarships offered to Somali students to 100, according to Somali ambassador Yusuf Ahmed Hassan Yusuf Jeego and Algerian Secretary of State Sofiane Chaib, who met at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The two countries also discussed co-operation in mining and fisheries.
Sierra Leone’s foreign minister meets Morocco’s parliament speakerSierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Rahman Swaray, visited Ahmed Touizi, President of Morocco’s House of Representatives, in Rabat. They discussed strengthening parliamentary ties and cooperation in trade and education.The week in Africa
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