Three more teams, Cameroon, Morocco, and Algeria, qualified for the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) 2026 quarterfinals on August 3-4 in Morocco; Algeria sealed Kenya's elimination with a draw in Rabat; Senegal finished third in the group with four points; the quarterfinal line-up is now set
A coach from Sétif skidded off a road and fell into a ravine in Boumerdès, northern Algeria, on July 31, killing at least 27 people and injuring 42; President Tebboune declared three days of national mourning; within 24 hours a second bus crash at Timimoune, in the Saharan south, killed three more and injured 20, prompting Algerian press to demand radical reform of road transport regulation
Morocco defeated Algeria 1-0 and Senegal beat Kenya 1-0 in Group A of the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations on July 31, with both results leaving the group's qualification places undecided ahead of the final matchday; Morocco missed seven clear chances, including hitting the woodwork, while the Algeria match was played at the Olympic Stadium in Rabat
Algeria was battling an unprecedented wave of forest fires across its northern regions as of July 23, with 1,550 fires recorded in 12 days and at least six people killed in a heatwave-driven surge; civil protection authorities described the fires as sixth-generation blazes of a scale not seen before in Algeria
A blaze tore through the Mohammadia state child-welfare home in eastern Algiers on the night of July 16, killing at least 11 people, most of them children, and injuring 19 others; Algerian authorities opened a criminal investigation while the country faces more than 1,000 active wildfires driven by extreme heat
Algeria held elections for all 407 National People's Assembly seats on July 2, 2026; turnout tracked below 23% -- already a record low in 2021 -- with 269 candidates pre-emptively barred and near-empty campaign halls reflecting deep public disengagement
Morocco and Algeria have had no diplomatic relations and a closed land border since 2021, their rivalry over Western Sahara paralyzing Maghreb integration.
Disputed territory on Africa's Atlantic coast, Western Sahara has been under de facto Moroccan control since 1975 and is the core fault line dividing Morocco and Algeria.
US envoys float a 60-day deal as UNSC Resolution 2797 anchors Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara; Algiers, patron of the Polisario, stays cold
Algerians elected 407 MPs on July 2 with an estimated 11% turnout by afternoon, the lowest in any legislative vote since independence, amid candidate bans and a cost-of-living crisis
A ceremony in Aoulef, Algeria on June 4 marked full construction commencement on the 4,128-kilometre pipeline; at $13 billion and 30 billion cubic metres per year of planned capacity, it is the largest gas infrastructure project in Africa in a generation
Spain and Italy secured expanded pipeline gas imports from Algeria after February 2026 Iran-conflict energy shock drove European gas prices up more than 60%; Algeria's sixth EU-Algeria High-Level Energy Dialogue in February formalised a strategic partnership and Sonatrach launched a bid round across 7 fields covering 2.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent