2021 in Algeria

Events from 2021 in Algeria.

Incumbents

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.
*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.
January 2 – Three top officials, including the younger brother of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Saïd, are acquitted after a September 2019 arrest.
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.
January 20 – French President Emmanuel Macron refuses to apologize for colonialism or the Algerian War.
January – Reuters reports fighting between militants and government troops in Aïn Defla Province.

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.
February 12 – President Tebboune, 74, returns from Germany after a second bout with COVID-19.
February 18 – Tebboune says he will dissolve Parliament and free political prisoners.
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.
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.

10 August – Death toll rises to 42, including 25 soldiers, after massive wildfires spread throughout 18 wilayas in Algeria, particularly in Kabylia.
11 August – Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declares 3 days of national mourning as death toll soars to 65 following massive forest fires in Kabylie.
12 August – At least 22 suspected arsonists are arrested by authorities following the fires in Kabylie.

January 2 – Mirzaq Biqtash, 75, writer.
January 18 – Jean-Pierre Bacri, 69, Algerian-born French actor and screenwriter ; cancer.
January 22 – Guem, 73, musician, composer and dancer.
March 17 – Rym Ghezali, 38, actress.
March 27 – Redha Hamiani, 76, politician.
September 10 – Saadi Yacef, 93, independence fighter, politician and actor.