Algeria News Archives

ALGIERS: Western Sahara's Polisario Front independence movement on Tuesday threatened to pull out of negotiations with Morocco unless seven detained activists were freed, its Algiers representative said.

Algiers: An armed Islamist group yesterday killed at least six private security guards in an ambush in the Kabylie region east of the capital, residents said.

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The clashes between police and young people protesting poor housing conditions in Algiers earlier this week reflect growing efforts in recent weeks to stem public demonstrations by a government which, fearing terrorist threats, is determined to maintain a grip on order.

Algerian riot poilcemen take cover as protesters throw stones during clashes at Diar Eshams suburb on Tuesday.

ALGIERS: Clashes that pitted police against stone-throwing youths from an Algiers slum this week are characteristic of the confrontations that take place in Algeria over poor living conditions.

Algiers/Paris - Seven security guards were killed early Thursday by a group of suspected Islamic extremists near the eastern city of Tizi Ouzou, local security sources said.

CAIRO [MENL] -- Algeria has approved plans for a major energy development project.

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HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika holding talks in Algiers yesterday Algiers: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani held a round of official talks with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, at the Villa Zeralda Complex here yesterday.

Algeria's ministry of public works on Tuesday put out to national and international tender a feasibility study on a road link between the south-western town of Tindouf and Choum in north Mauritania.

A French court placed a physicist working at CERN , the high-energy research laboratory in Switzerland, under formal investigation on Monday for suspected "conspiracy with a terrorist enterprise." Although the physicist's name had not been officially released by the French police, an official with direct knowledge of the investigation identified ...

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Nine armed Islamists were killed by the Algerian Security Forces on Friday in an area between the provinces of Ghardaia and Bechar, in the southwest of Algeria, reported the Arabic newspaper Echorouk on its website.

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Algerian authorities to drop charges against journalist and rights activist Hafnaoui Ghoul, who is on trial for writing articles critical of local authorities in Djelfa province.

Total SA said Wednesday that Algerian officials have approved the development plan for its Timimoun natural gas project in southwestern Algeria.

Resistance is often the key to winning any conflict, and although the best part of two decades have passed without any significant military action in the war for the Western Sahara, the pro-independence Polisario Front has always set great store by the power to resist of the Sahrawi refugees in the camps at Tindouf, Algeria.

Al-Qaida's North African offshoot claimed it killed or injured dozens of Algerian security forces in 29 separate attacks and bombings over the past two months, despite the intense military pressure that appears to have seriously limited the militants' scope.

Security forces in Algeria killed three armed Islamists in a desert ambush in the early hours of Sunday, newspapers in the capital Algiers reported on Monday.

A COLLISION between two buses in Algeria yesterday killed 11 people and wounded another 65, the APS news reports.

LARBAA, Algeria: Algerian President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika's success in reining in Islamist violence has brought with it a challenge: people are now demanding their government deliver more jobs and higher wages.

One of the alleged pirates arrested for the hijacking of the Arctic Sea, the Maltese-flagged ship that veered off course on its way to Algeria, has spoken out over a possible cover-up by the Russian government.