Oh that's interesting, previous news claims India vetoed Algeria accession into BRICS at France's request. UAE being the main culprit makes much more sense.Algeria definitely not joining BRICS:
"there is nothing mysterious about this blindness, it is even an open secret", El Moudjahid ironically wrote in his editorial, adding that Algeria's exclusion "is more the result of political manoeuvres than economic criteria", knowing that a member country has vetoed it under the influence of a Gulf emirate.