Events from 2021 in Algeria.
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Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria
January
- January 1
- President Abdelmadjid Tebboune signs the new constitution, approved in November 2020. He also said he hopes to soon start applying the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19.[1]
- Twenty people are killed and 11 injured when a vehicle overturns near Ain Amguel, Tamanrasset Province. Nineteen people, including children, are African nationals, and Tamanrasset, is regarded as a transit point for migrants seeking to go to Europe.[2]
- January 2 – Three top officials, including the younger brother of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Saïd, are acquitted after a September 2019 arrest.[3]
- January 14 – A homemade bomb kills five civilians in Tebessa Province. An armed rebel is killed in Khenchela Province. It is not known if the incidents are related.[4]
- January 20 – French President Emmanuel Macron refuses to apologize for colonialism or the Algerian War.[5]
- January (date unknown) – Reuters reports fighting between militants and government troops in Aïn Defla Province.[6]
February
- February 8 – Cherif Belmihoub, a minister in charge of economic projections, warns that Algeria′s energy exports are falling and the country may cease to be an exporter of crude within a decade.[7]
- February 12 – President Tebboune, 74, returns from Germany after a second bout with COVID-19.[8]
- February 18 – Tebboune says he will dissolve Parliament and free political prisoners.[9]
- February 19 – Journalist Khaled Drareni and thirty other activists are released from prison in Koléa, Tipaza Province on the second anniversary of the Hirak Movement.[10]
- February 26 – Protesters take to the streets of Algiers and other cities in a renewal of the Friday Hirak movement protests, suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]
March
- March 5 – Thousands of protesters march on the second Friday in a row.[12]
August
- 10 August – Death toll rises to 42, including 25 soldiers, after massive wildfires spread throughout 18 wilayas in Algeria, particularly in Kabylia.[13]
- 11 August – Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declares 3 days of national mourning as death toll soars to 65 following massive forest fires in Kabylie.[14]
- 12 August – At least 22 suspected arsonists are arrested by authorities following the fires in Kabylie.[15]
- January 2 – Mirzaq Biqtash, 75, writer.[17]
- January 18 – Jean-Pierre Bacri, 69, Algerian-born French actor (Same Old Song, Place Vendôme) and screenwriter (The Taste of Others); cancer.[18]
- January 22 – Guem, 73, musician, composer and dancer.[19]
- March 17 – Rym Ghezali, 38, actress (El Wa3ra).[20]
- March 27 – Redha Hamiani, 76, politician.[21]
- September 10 – Saadi Yacef, 93, independence fighter, politician and actor.[22]