Algerian Berbers marked their New Year as a public holiday Friday with feasts, dancing and horse parades, a first for the North Africa region where indigenous peoples have long suffered ...

In Algeria's disaffected Kabylie region, the brick has become the symbol of the anti-vote campaign ahead of unpopular presidential elections set for Thursday. Protesters have even bricked up the ...

Even for the non-expert observer of the Maghreb, the Berber parameter has now become an essential element of the political, social, and cultural scene in both Algeria and Morocco. In Algeria, since ...

FILE - In this July 27, 2007 file photo, Algerian singer Idir performs during the 32nd edition of the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. Celebrated Algerian singer Idir, who gave voice to the region ...

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 ...

Hundreds of Berbers protest in front of a walled area where Algiers' newspapers are headquartered in support of Berbers in Ghardaia, Algiers, Algeria, July 8, 2015 (AP photo by Sidali Djarboub). Click ...

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 ...

ALGIERS, Algeria – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika issued an emergency plan on Wednesday to crack down on mounting ethnic unrest around the country’s southern oasis city of Ghardaia, which has ...

THE 25m or so Berbers, also known as Amazighs meaning “the freeborn”, are descended from the pre-Arab inhabitants of north Africa west of the Nile river. Today, the bulk of them live in Algeria and ...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Clashes have broken out between Arabs and Berbers near the southern Algerian desert town of Ghardaia, with two people killed and businesses torched, the official APS news agency ...

SAHEL, Algeria, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Algerian women in bright Berber dress ululating, singing and beating drums at a soccer tournament last week were pushing their fight for gender equality - a cause ...

PARIS (AP) — Idir, an Algerian singer who gave voice to the Berber and Kabyle cultures, has died in Paris. He was 70. Saturday’s death of the singer, whose real name was Hamid Cheriet, was confirmed ...