Africa Live: More on this and other stories from the continent Colourism and black love Algeria country profile Ms Ben Hamou took part in 20 rounds of the competition before being crowned Miss ...

He gave up a lucrative contract in France to help create a football team to represent the Algerian resistance in the fight ...

The authorities say Algeria is threatened by a rerun of the bloody violence of the 1990s - known as "the black decade". Getty Images Young volunteers have been distributing donated food aid to ...