Blida, Algeria News

Algeria is hosting the Second Pan-African Cultural Festival at the request of the African Union, 40 years after the north African country staged the first such event, when several nations were still struggling for independence.

More than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa, as well as Brazil and the United States, are descending on Algeria for a huge cultural festival that kicks off this weekend until July 20.

Security forces raided a militant base near the Algerian capital, killing six suspected al-Qaida-linked Islamists and arresting 10 people from a support cell, a government official and local media reported Saturday.

Two tajines prepared by Ali Kara, owner of the Kamela restaurant: Artichoke Hearts with Lamb , and Chicken with Olives and Preserved Lemon.

Algeria's state radio says the military has killed 16 militants linked to al-Qaida in a weekend raid on their secret base near the capital, Algiers.

ALGIERS, Algeria : The Algerian army killed seven Islamist militants during a raid on a secret base in mountains near the Algerian capital, a security official and local media said Monday.

Algiers - Algerian security forces have killed eight suspected Islamist terrorists in the district of Blida, some 50 km east of the capital Algiers, local newspapers reported on Monday.

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is heading for a hollow victory in an election in Algeria in April because he is ill-suited to the task of tackling enormous youth unemployment, a prominent historian said.

Bovine Tuberculosis is prevalent in Algeria despite governmental attempts to control the disease.

AN ALGERIAN asylum-seeker, deported three weeks ago after a dawn raid, has told of her depression and despair at being uprooted from her Plymouth home.

POPULAR parents deported to Algeria in a dawn raid by immigration officers fled to this country after their son was hit in the eye by shrapnel from a bullet passing through their house, a family friend revealed ...