Ouyahia served four times as prime minister from 1995, three of them during Bouteflika’s two-decade rule
Protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika have been fanned by football followers, whose stadium chants have been heard across the country
Bouteflika has been in power since 1999 and his rare public appearances since his stroke have been in a wheelchair.
Experts have reported that Algeria’s economic growth is being stunted, partly by businesses’ reliance on the black market.
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/ 20 December 2011
Algerian troops have crossed into Mali to help government forces combat groups affiliated to al-Qaeda, officials and witnesses have said.
For nearly two weeks Algerian schoolteacher Hamou Benhamou has spent his days protesting outside the presidential administration.
Hundreds of youths clashed with police in several cities in Algeria, including the capital, over food price rises and chronic unemployment.
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/ 24 February 2009
Algeria aims to build its first commercial nuclear power station around 2020, Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said on Tuesday.
About 5 000 people demonstrated in the flood-riven southern Algerian town of Ghardaia on Friday to demand urgent aid after flash floods killed 31.
A suicide attack on an Algerian police school at Issers, 60km east of Algiers, killed 43 people and injured 38, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
Two bombs exploded on Sunday at a railway station east of Algiers, killing 12 people including a French engineer.
Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) president Chakib Khelil reiterated on Saturday that Opec would not make a decision on output policy before its next scheduled meeting in September, and said oil-market fundamentals were not responsible for high oil prices.
Oil markets are well supplied and high prices are the result of speculation, a weak dollar and geopolitical problems, Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) president Chakib Khelil said on Monday. ”As for Opec, indications show that there is no shortage [of supply],” he told a public forum on energy.
Suspected Islamist rebels killed five soldiers in an ambush on a military convoy east of Algiers on Wednesday, a security source said. The attack occurred near the town of Tizi Ouzou, 120km east of the capital, the source said, without giving further details.
The death toll from political violence in Algeria jumped to 56 in December from six in the previous month, bringing to 491 the number of those killed in 2007, according to a Reuters count based on newspaper reports. A total of 37 people, including 17 United Nations staff, were killed in a double suicide bombing in the capital, Algiers, on December 11.
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/ 20 December 2007
War may break out again in Western Sahara if United Nations-sponsored talks between Morocco and the Polisario Front independence movement fail, Polisario said on Friday. A third round of UN-brokered talks to resolve Africa’s longest-running territorial dispute are set for January 7 to 9 in Manhasset, New York.
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/ 14 December 2007
Two convicted terrorists who had been freed in an amnesty carried out this week’s suicide bombings at United Nations and government buildings that killed 37 people, an Algerian security official said. One of the bombers was a 64-year-old man in the advanced stages of cancer, while the other was a 32-year-old from a poor suburb.
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/ 13 December 2007
Two Algerians, aged 30 and 64, carried out Tuesday’s twin car-bomb attacks in Algiers that killed scores of people, the Algerian daily Liberte reported on Thursday. According to official figures, at least 31 people were killed in the bombings, including five foreigners.
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/ 12 December 2007
Rescuers on Wednesday kept up the search for survivors of two al-Qaeda bomb attacks as grieving families started funerals for dozens of victims. The United Nations said 11 of its staff were killed by one of the suicide bombers and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has ordered a worldwide security review after the attack.
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/ 12 December 2007
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for a car bomb strike in Algiers that killed dozens of people as rescuers continued to work to find survivors. Amid a disputed death toll, rescuers pulled seven people alive from the debris of one of the bombs which tore through the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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/ 11 December 2007
A twin car bomb strike rocked Algiers on Tuesday killing at least 62 people and devastating a United Nations office where staff were trapped for hours after the blasts, hospital officials said. It was the worst of a series of bombings in the capital and other major Algerian cities this year. All the past attacks were claimed by al-Qaeda.
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/ 11 December 2007
Two bombs exploded in the Algerian capital, Algiers, on Tuesday, killing 20 people and wounding 43, a security source said. One blast killed 15 people near the Constitutional Court building and the other killed five close to the United Nations offices and a police station in the upscale Hydra district, the source said.
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/ 15 November 2007
The Algerian army is ”on the road to victory” over the Maghreb branch of the al-Qaeda network, responsible for suicide attacks in the North African country, according to a French anti-terrorism expert. The Maghreb branch has introduced suicide bomb attacks that have targeted government and army positions in Algeria.
An Algerian army operation against a group suspected of links to al-Qaeda has left 22 militants and seven soldiers dead in recent days, the daily Liberte reported on Monday. Security officials would not immediately comment on the sweep, which reportedly targeted the region of Tebessa, 650km east of the capital, Algiers.
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/ 21 September 2007
A suicide bomber rammed a booby-trapped car into a convoy in Algeria on Friday, wounding two French engineers and an Italian, in an attack only hours after al-Qaeda called for an offensive against French targets. Six Algerians, five of them police, were also injured in the attack near the town of Lakhdaria.
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/ 10 September 2007
The terrorist who on Saturday apparently helped drive a truck loaded with explosives into a marine barracks in the eastern Algerian city of Dellys and detonate it, killing 30 people and injuring 47, was only 15 years old, the daily El Watan reported on Monday.
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/ 9 September 2007
A car bomb has killed at least 28 coast guard officers in Algeria just days after a blast ripped through a crowd waiting for the president. The bombings are being seen as a show of strength by the country’s main extremist group, which has gained force after linking up with al-Qaeda. Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni warned terrorists that they have ”one choice: turn themselves in or die”.
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/ 8 September 2007
A car bomb killed 10 people in eastern Algeria on Saturday, a security source said. The source gave no further details of the bomb attack in Dellys town, 100km east of Algiers. The explosion happened two days after a suicide bomb attack in the town of Batna that killed at least 20 people, including the attacker.
Forest fires fed by winds off the Sahara and still burning out of control in northern Algeria have claimed eight lives in the past 48 hours, the country’s civil protection services said on Thursday. A lack of specialised water-bombing planes has added to the challenges faced by firefighters and soldiers sent in as reinforcements.
Algeria saw foreign trade for its mining sector post positive results in 2006 for the first time in 11 years, with a surplus of ,58-million, the Energy and Mines Ministry said on Tuesday. The official APS news agency said it was ”the first positive balance” since 1996.
Olympic chiefs should give the All Africa Games the same priority as other continental competitions if they are to be taken seriously by the rest of the world, the event’s director general said on Sunday. The officials said African nations had to change their ”attitude” and respect deadlines set by organising committees.
The African Olympic body is expected to take over the running of the All Africa Games to attract more private sponsors and top athletes, its president said on Tuesday. The Games are currently organised by the Supreme Council for Sports in Africa, the sporting wing of the African Union.