Twala informs the public of its decision to terminate the advertising agreement that bound it to the public advertising agency ANEP, an agreement signed in March 2025 and originally set to run until March 2026.

In practice, this agreement functioned only for a limited period, between July and September 2025. Advertising placements were suspended on September 22, 2025, following the publication of an opinion piece critical of the communication strategy of the Ministry of National Defense.

It should be emphasized that this suspension was not notified through the usual administrative channels of the concerned agency, but rather on the same day, on the premises of the DGSI, a method that is deeply troubling in light of professional standards and basic principles of transparency.

Moreover, Twala was subjected to a fifteen (15)-day suspension, from September 30 to October 14, 2025, for the same article, a sanction notified by the Ministry of Communication.

Today, on January 19, the public advertising agency suddenly invokes the need to modify the sign relating to legal notices, replacing that of ANEP with that of the ANEP archives. This belated, incoherent, and difficult-to-justify step borders on the absurd and confirms the absence of any genuine intention to respect either the spirit or the letter of the original agreement.

In the face of this succession of arbitrary decisions, indirect pressure, and contractual breaches, Twala has decided to terminate the current agreement, despite its scheduled expiry in March.

The facts set out above reflect a climate in which it has become objectively difficult (if not impossible) to sustain a newspaper in Algeria.