President of the non-recognised Legal Islah Movement, Abdellah Djaballah, has proposed in a letter sent to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to hold “a national congress to discuss reform issues.”

Former Secretary General of National Liberation Front (FLN), Abdelhamid Mehri said on Tuesday that he has drawn up a political initiative for change, which involves three parties : President Bouteflika and the regime, the true opposition in addition to the people.

A British State Minister is to pay a visit to Algeria next month, to discuss political, security and economic bilateral cooperation, said the British Ambassador to Algiers, Martyn Roper, who was the guest of El Khabar on Monday.

The National Alliance for Change (ANC) has called on Sunday for a popular sit-in next Friday at Atlas Hall in Algiers, in bid to “make a change today rather than tomorrow.”

The Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) has slammed the rejection of Algeria to approve setting up a non-fly zone on Libya as proposed by the Arab League and the United Nations.

Algeria has made four negotiation rounds with the European Union in bid to extend the dismantling of customs fees, as an agreement is likely to be sealed later the half of this year, Minister of Commerce, Mustapha Benbada, said on Saturday.

Women players and staff of two Algerian volleyball teams are trapped in Egypt, and could not come back home, due to unrests and the lack of means of transport from Alexandria and Cairo.

The military institution is continuing modernising its methods of training and equipping, a military officer said on Monday.

The majority of Egyptian employees at Orascom Construction & Industries in Arzew, western Algeria, have expressed their concern over protest movement taking place in their homeland, which caused a heavy death toll.

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has decided cancelling attending the 16th summit of the African Union in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia. He charged Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mourad Medelci to represent Algeria there.