List of events
Events from 2020 in Algeria.
Events
Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria
January
- January 28 – The Human Rights Watch denounces the arrests of dozens of peaceful dissidents that have occurred since the presidential election in 2019.[1]
- January 30 – Defense forces announce the arrest of a man planning a suicide attack against peaceful protesters.[2]
February
March
- March 12 – Schools were locked down due to the spread of COVID-19. Five new cases of COVID-19, including one death, were reported.[7]
May
- May 14 – Algeria summons Morocco's ambassador to Algiers in protest against when the Moroccan consul in Oran purportedly referred to Algeria as an "enemy country."[8]
- May 20 – Soheib Debaghi, Larbi Tahar, and Boussif Mohamed are sentenced to tough jail terms after Facebook posts are ruled to be potentially damaging to national interest.[9]
- May 28 – Algeria recalls its ambassador to France for consultations after French public television aired documentaries on the anti-government protest movement, one of which contained shots of young people kissing and drinking alcohol.[10]
June
October
December
- December 29 – President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returns to Algeria after receiving treatment for COVID-19 in Germany since October.[13]
- December – Over the course of 2020, twenty-one rebel fighters were killed, nine were captured, and eleven surrendered to the army.[14]
