Le tumulte de l’été à Annaba

The tumult of summer in Annaba

A city without borders

The flirtatious city of the East, Annaba, has known since the end of June 2025 and only a few days after Aid Kebir, a narcotic nightmare on the cornice or in the beaches as in town. Annaba remains, with its pretty spectacle, a city too appreciated and where it is good to taste ice cream and cold drinks.

Some customers find that the prices charged are paradoxically quite high in the Corniche shops. However, the course of the Revolution, the surroundings of the cornice, in particular the beaches of Saint Cloud, Rizzi Amor and Ain Achir are crowded with people between visitors and Annabis families in search of night freshness. Here, citizens continue to invade the various terraces of the cafeterias each evening where happy bride and groom wander throughout the cornice until late hours of the night.
On the other hand, a fairly large number of vehicles of various registrations no longer find room to park so that their occupants can go down and flane on the banks. It should also be cited that the elements of security are present and ensure total peace of mind to families. This vast coastline welcomes thousands of summer visitors each year and from their coming, the walkers start trips by storming the Bônoise side with cars that keep traveling the way to Ain Achir, Ras El Hamra descending towards Saint Cloud and all along the seafront.
Other families prefer the course of the Revolution to seize the terraces and enjoy ice cream with their children.

A summer in Annaba not like the others
During this hot period of summer and scorching and unbearable heat, who does not want to go to the sea? All the summer visitors from all over the country have so impatiently awaited the arrival of the annual leave to be able to afford the days of relaxation, leisure and make the most of the burning sun on the sumptuous beaches of Annaba. Indeed, in this summer season, the temperature of June from June 40 to 43 degrees and the coast of the capital of Wilaya is experiencing a large movement of travelers. We were able to see several immigrants and hundreds of families invading the Bône coast massively. They came from everywhere, from Constantine, Guelma, Souk Ahras, Tébessa, Sétif, Mila, Batna, Algiers, Oran, Biskra and Skikda. At seven in the morning already, the parking lots of the Chapuit, Toche, Belvedere and Ain Achir beaches no longer offer space for vehicles of various registrations to park in these places. However, prices vary between 100 and 200 DA per auto, a very profitable activity for young people who have proclaimed themselves parking caretakers. It must also be said that most of the summer visitors have chosen the hotels in front of the sea such as Mouna, Rym El Djamil and Sabri, whose prices are unqualless, not to say exaggerated compared to certain hotels of Tunisia in order to spend a few beautiful days.
Note, moreover, that dozens of young and older individuals do not hesitate to sleep daily on golden sand for lack of money.
According to a reliable source, the newspaper La Nouvelle République learns that on the coast of Rizzi Amor (ex-chapuit), a group of rode pickpockets until midnight on the said beach, armed with knives. He strips a few poor travelers, relieving them of their clothes and wallets leaving their victims almost naked and completely lost.
On the other hand, some ice merchants double their profit striking the bargain to sell more. Note also that there is, unfortunately not a day that passes without having drowning and the ambulances of the firefighters do not go unnoticed with their sirens.
The shores are incredibly overcrowded day and night until late hours. Many young people have fun in particular with card games, volleyball and handball if it is not football, it has been noted during a trip to the scene.
But the children of the summer camps prefer song accompanied by the dance where the majority of this impressive world remain in these places in order to rest, go take refreshments and eat in the pizzerias like the new Star, Pizza Hot or at Chérif Pizza. Like every Thursday and Friday, you can’t help admiring a chain of luxurious cars that circulate celebrating a wedding and it is with strident horns that the procession arrives at your destination. Traffic remains slow and forces them to stop every ten seconds. Finally, it is only around two in the morning that calm returns and that night becomes soothing.

public beaches managed by
unemployed in Annaba
On the cornice of the wilaya, already the young businessmen accustomed to force the places of the beaches of Rizzi Amor, Toche and the Carob began to trace their territories. These unemployed who live in the coastal regions of the city, are already in the process of installing chairs and parasols on the beach without leaving the slightest space for the public and under the indifferent eye of municipal officials. A very juicy trade for people who have no right to appropriate public beaches throughout the summer season. They fix the prices as they please: parking at 200 DA, tables and chairs at 500 DA and parasols at 800 DA. Summer visitors are against these illicit practices but they can do nothing, alone, in the face of the silence of the authorities who do not raise their finger to prevent them.
In this context, you should know that from the beginning of July until the end of August of each year, hundreds of immigrants come every summer to Annaba to take advantage of the sea, and where, it is underline, 2,070,496 border entries were recorded during the past year for 141.509 Algerian tourists resident abroad against 654,987 foreign tourists who had chosen Algeria Morocco, Tunisia and Africa, it has been informed.
Faouzi Oki