Sources: الموقع الرسمي للمديرية العامة للوظيفة العمومية (Alger) and Algeria banks holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Algerian government, through its Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Sécurité Sociale has announced that Saturday, July 5th, 2014, had been declared a non-working public holiday ("journée chômée et payée"), on account of the upcoming "célébration du 52ème anniversaire de la fête de l'indépendance nationale". [full story]