The Latest Breaking News from Algeria

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has won gold at Paris 2024 after facing days of abuse over alleged gender eligibility issues.

The Algerian outboxed Yang Liu to win gold in the women’s welterweight tournament at Paris 2024

Algeria’s Imane Khelif will face China’s Yang Liu on Friday for a chance to win the country’s first women’s boxing gold.

Olympic boxer Imane Khelif has become a hometown hero in Algeria, a conservative, Muslim-majority country where attacks on her gender have been interpreted as attacks on the nation

Women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics has highlighted the complexity of drafting and enforcing sex eligibility rules for women's sports and how athletes like Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan are left vulnerable in the fallout

In their preliminary 2024 Olympic women’s boxing match, Algeria’s Imane Khelif delivered a painful blow to the face of Italy’s Angela Carini, who abandoned the fight after 46 seconds.

Three rejected presidential candidates were placed under "judicial supervision" by a court in Algiers, while another 68 people, including elected officials, were temporarily detained as part of an investigation into electoral fraud. Only three presidential candidates made it to compete in the September election.

Imane Khelif, the boxer at the centre of a gender dispute, beat Thailand

The Algeria fighter defeated Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng to set up a final with Yang Liu of China on Friday