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Algeria Gate: A major step forward in digital cooperation between Algeria and Niger. The official launch of the Trans-Saharan axial fibre optic link took place in Assamaka, Niger, in a ceremony co-presided by Algeria’s Minister of Post and Telecommunications Sidi Ali Zerrouki and Niger’s Minister of Communication Hamani Karni.

This strategic infrastructure will strengthen digital connectivity, boost data exchange and improve telecommunications services across the region. It marks an important advance in Algerian-Nigerien cooperation in information and communication technologies and forms part of broader efforts to consolidate Trans-Saharan digital networks.

Through this project, Algeria reaffirms its commitment to developing digital infrastructure in Africa and strengthening links with Sahel countries.

Algeria Gate – Editorial by Amar Belani: After five full minutes of complaining that Algeria no longer buys French products (except medicines), a CNEWS commentator ended his lament with a line as grotesque as it is revealing: “Algerians boycott France, but Algerian nationals in France do not boycott social benefits.”

Beyond its sheer stupidity, the remark is a concentrated dose of resentment and contempt. Analysis of a commercial relationship has been abandoned in favour of an old repertoire of stigmatisation, with Algeria as scarecrow and Algerians as scapegoats.

This is where a certain Bolloré-branded press has arrived: less information, more resentment; less analysis, more provocation; and the same pathological obsession with turning every Franco-Algerian issue into a trial of Algerians. By scraping the bottom of public debate, CNEWS — a principal vector of the far-right sphere — confuses journalism with hateful score-settling. In doing so, it helps prepare the ideological ground on which the extreme right hopes to prosper ahead of the April 2027 presidential election.

Algeria Gate: Thirty-three years after the last execution, the Criminal Court of the Algiers Court of Appeal has issued the first death sentences under Law No. 25-03 of 1 July 2025 on the prevention of drugs and psychotropic substances and the repression of their illicit use and trafficking.

Nine defendants were sentenced, three in their presence and six in absentia, in a case involving the seizure of 113 kilograms of cocaine and 225,030 pregabalin tablets. The charges include organised importation, transport, storage and trafficking of hard drugs and psychotropic substances with the intent to harm national security and public order, as well as smuggling. Related charges of identity theft, illegal migration, illegal residence and money laundering were also retained.

These rulings rank among the first major judicial applications of the new legislation, particularly its provisions targeting organised trafficking and smuggling.