Algeria News
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Algiers -
Ten candidates have registered to run in Algeria's April 17 presidential election, public radio said Wednesday, with 77-year-old incumbent Abdelaziz Bouteflika widely expected to win a fourth term.
In the Media
by AFP
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Algiers -
Ailing 76-year-old Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will seek reelection to a fourth term in April, his office said in comments carried by national television Saturday.Bouteflika, who has been in power for 15 years, suffered a mini-stroke last y...
In the Media
by AFP
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Way back on February 13, 1960, France tested its first atomic bomb, "Gerboise Bleue" (Blue Jerboa). Declassified documents released recently show that radiation from the test in the Algerian Sahara desert reached much further than they said at the time.
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Oum El Bouaghi -
A military aircraft carrying 78 people crashed in Algeria's mountainous northeast, leaving just one survivor in one of the country's deadliest air disasters, the defence ministry said.President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced three days of national mour...
In the Media
by Amal Belalloufi (AFP)
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Algiers -
An Algerian military aircraft crashed in the east of the country on Tuesday killing all 103 people on board, an Algerian security source said.The C-130 Hercules aircraft, which was flying to the eastern city of Constantine crashed "in poor weather cond...
In the Media
by AFP
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U.S. prosecutors have filed charges towards an Al-Qaeda linked commander, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, over the hostage taking of an Algerian gas plant earlier this year that left over 60 people dead.
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Cairo -
With the killing of over 50 people on Tuesday morning at a demonstration at the Republican Guard Headquarters where former president Morsi is believed to be held, the level of violence in Egypt is increasing and could result in civil war.
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According to a report issued on Wednesday by an Algerian newsletter, Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, has begun to recruit Algerian youths to fight alongside the Syrian opposition, in the battle against Bashar al-Assad.
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Investment in Algeria's oil and gas production is threatened by new security fears that add on to longer term issues scaring away foreign firms.
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Like volcanoes erupting a stream of lava, Islamic incidents, Jihads, appear as a human 'ring of fire' from Africa to the southern islands of the Philippines.
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Alberto Bougleux
A still from 'Song For Amine' by Alberto Bougleux.
Countless people have been subjected to forced disappearance since the early nineties, when Algeria waged war on radical Islam. According to official statistics published by the Algerian government 6,000 Algerians have ‘disappeared’ in the 1990s. Human rights organizations consider the actual number to be much higher, though.
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Algeria Blogs
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I was wondering if it would be possible to get some of the cities in Algeria listed in the "City" portion of the...
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Yesterday, the algerian people were encouraged to go vote for the parliamentary elections. While president Bouteflika...
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