Safety, Algeria Safety- Algeria Algeria has not been high on traveller's lists in the last years. Civil strife has since 1992 torn the country, and its people, into fragments. The country's international reputation has been destroyed for years to come, the economy has dropped from being one of Africa's strongest into becoming totally disorganized. At the very present, there have been an escalation of violent actions, and nobody would now dare to say what will come in the last months of 1996, and the first of 1997.
Tourism seems to still be completely out of the question.
Even if Algeria is no longer as dangerous as before, precautions must be taken all the time you stay here. A low profile, staying away from cheap hotels, staying indoors at night, and most certainly avoiding narrow streets, and using popular transportation, are all efforts that must be implemented, and which will turn your stay in Algeria into fairly safe. Travelling around Algeria for foreigners is strongly controlled these days, the authorities are very much conserned about not detroying their international reputation more. A zone stretching from Algiers , along the coast, until Oran in the west of Algeria, is reported to be the only area where tourists can move around in. Foreign workers have only access to those areas where the authorities feel that they guarantee people's safety.