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🇩🇿 Yennayer in Algeria
Also known as: Berber New Year
Berber New Year celebration
Date in Algeria
January 12
Celebration of the Amazigh New Year.
Traditional Amazigh (Berber) New Year marking the beginning of the agricultural calendar. Celebrates cultural heritage and traditional customs.
How Yennayer is observed in Algeria
Historical significance
Marks the start of the agricultural calendar used by Berbers.
Public life in Algeria
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Berber
On this day in African history
- 1872 Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- 1960 The eight-year-old State of Emergency in Kenya by the British ends.
- 1970 Biafra surrenders, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
- 1992 A new constitution, providing freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
- 1994 France and the International Monetary Fund impose a fifty percent devaluation of the CFA franc across fourteen African member nations. · Senegal