TIZI-OUZOU (Algeria)- The ancient tradition of "Tajmaat" lives on today in the village of Tighilt-Mahmoud through solidarity actions, imbued with extended sociality, led by a volunteer committee.

ALGIERS-Twenty-two (22) were killed and 1259 wounded in several road accidents that occurred throughout the country on 06-12 September, a Civil Protection's tolls said Tuesday.

ALGIERS-The European Union (EU) has donated an aid to the Algerian Red Crescent (CRA) intended for the families affected by the tremor that hit the province of Mila in last August, the EU delegation in Algiers announced Sunday in a communiqué.

ALGIERS- The National Gendarmerie Command has put in place a special plan to secure the Baccalaureate (BAC), Intermediate School Exams (BEM) while taking a series of measures to ensure the perimeter security of schools through the reinforcement of control patrols and the facilitation of traffic on the roads surrounding the examination centers.

ALGIERS- The illiteracy rate in Algeria has dropped to 8.71 according to the latest figures of the National Office for Literacy and Adult Education (ONAEA), which said that Algeria is working "relentlessly" to continue the fight against this scourge in order to build a "more sustainable" society.

ALGIERS- Nine people were killed and 508 others were injured in traffic accidents across the national territory in the last 48 hours, the Civil Protection said in a report.

ALGIERS- Fifty-five people lost their lives in 29 traffic accidents and 28 drownings, recorded nationwide from 23 to 29 August, announced Tuesday the Directorate General of the Civil Protection in a toll.

ALGIERS- The number of deaths due to road accidents has dropped nationwide, over the last seven months, by more than 21% compared with the same period in 2019, the road safety delegation said Monday.

ALGIERS- The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Wakfs announced that zakat of money for the new Hijri year 1442 is set at seven hundred and five thousand five hundred Algerian dinars (DZD705.500), said the ministry in a communiqué.

SETIF- Adviser to the President of the Republic in charge of religious associations Aissa Belakhdar affirmed Friday, in Setif, that the zawiyas ( religious Islamic schools) have always played an important role in the preservation of the national identity and the Algerian society’s values and were, from time immemorial, safety valve against colonialism.