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/ 15 February 2012
When Moncef Marzouki, a dissident transformed into Tunisia’s president, paid a visit to Algeria, Tunisian flags flew from lamp posts in his honour.
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/ 31 January 2012
An Islamist opposition party leader says Algeria’s government will ignite unrest if it tries to rig elections in May to keep its grip on power.
France’s defence minister said it was time for Libya’s rebels to negotiate with Muammar Gaddafi’s government.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stepped up Western calls on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to quit, brushing off his threat to attack Europeans.
For nearly two weeks Algerian schoolteacher Hamou Benhamou has spent his days protesting outside the presidential administration.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won 90,24% of the vote in a presidential election, cementing his hold on the oil producer.
High oil prices mean Algeria’s economy is still growing. But the factory where Fertas Salah works shows how attempts to diversify are stuttering.
Dellys should be a tourist hotspot, yet it is isolated as it tries to recover from a brutal civil conflict that engulfed the country in the 1990s.
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/ 29 January 2008
A car-bomb attack on a police station killed two people and wounded 23 in a town east of Algiers on Tuesday, the second such bombing in the Opec member in a month. Some residents said the blast in Thenia appeared to be a suicide attack, the tactic used in a twin bombing in the capital on December 11.
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/ 9 September 2007
Al-Qaeda’s north Africa wing said it was behind two suicide attacks that killed at least 57 people in Algeria in the past two days, according to a statement posted on the internet on Saturday. It said the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb was behind Saturday’s suicide truck bombing at a coast guard barracks east of Algiers and an attack in the town of Batna less than 48 hours earlier.