Algeria News
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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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Algiers -
Monday, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal announced that a Canadian citizen led the band of Islamist terrorists who slaughtered 37 international hostages, including two Canadians, at an Algerian desert gas plant last week.
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The international hostage crisis at the BP gas facility in Algeria appears to have come to a deadly conclusion, with Algerian officials finding additional bodies within the complex on Sunday.
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A United States Air Force aero evacuation plane has begun the process of evacuating Americans and other foreign nationals from the BP gas complex in Amenas, Algeria.
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Bamako -
The Mali insurgency followed 10 years of US counter-terrorism programs. In spite of big goals to curb terrorism, and enhance regional cooperation and stability, Islamic groups were able to infiltrate Mali, threatening the existence of the democracy.
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Thursday was a day marked with confusion, concern, frustration and bloodshed as members of the Algerian military launched a rescue offensive on a BP gas complex in Amenas, Algeria.
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Algerian security sources have told Reuters that 35 hostages being held at an oil field in Algeria have been killed. Fifteen kidnappers have also been killed, according to Al Jazeera.
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Tripoli -
The three premiers of Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia are meeting in the Libyan oasis town of Ghadames to discuss security along their mutual borders.
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Al Qaeda's new leader Ayman al-Zawahri has released his latest video in which he takes the opportunity to offer some advice to Libyans. He also urges Algerians to throw their tyrant leader into the trash can of history.
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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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