Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this July 27, 2007 file photo, Algerian singer Idir performs during the 32nd edition of the Paleo Festival in Nyon, ...

Algerian protesters, with the Berber flag in the background, chant slogans during anti-government demonstrations in the capital Algiers AFP / - Twenty-eight Algerian demonstrators were handed one-year ...

The grandmother of Massinissa Guermah, a teenager killed by Algerian police in April 2001, holds aloft his picture in May that year, amid protests in the country's Berber heartland AFP / - Twenty ...

Berber communities in Algeria are calling on the government to allocate state funding to promote and preserve their indigenous language, a demand that has prompted several protests in the country’s ...

ALGIERS — Last year marked a milestone for the millions of Algerian speakers of Amazigh, the Berber language, when it was given official status equal to Arabic in the country’s new constitution. The ...

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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 ...

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 on a post on ...

PARIS – 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 on a ...