Echorouk or Ech Chorouk El Yawmi (Arabic: الشروق اليومي, romanized: aš-Šurūq al-Yawmi, lit.

[3] In July 2015, Echorouk El Yawmi partnered with the British Council in Algeria to launch a competition to learn English.

The prizes were granted to five winners and were awarded in September in a ceremony held at the UK Ambassador's Residence in Algiers in presence of prominent personalities.

[4] In a fall 2006 trial, the leader of neighbouring Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, took the unprecedented step of suing the paper in an Algerian court for defamation.

The court decided on October 31 that Ech Chorouk's reporting of Qadhafi's attempts to induce Algerian Tuaregs to separatism had slandered the Libyan leader, and suspended the paper for two months.