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/ 25 November 2009
Egyptian intellectuals condemned as ”irresponsible” the use of World Cup qualifying matches between Egypt and Algeria for political gains.
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/ 21 November 2009
Algeria’s foreign minister summoned Egypt’s ambassador on Friday to reject accusations that his government failed to protect Egyptians.
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/ 20 November 2009
History doesn’t favour the chances of African sides in the World Cup, but Phathisani Moyo has reason to believe that next year will be different.
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/ 19 November 2009
Algerians exploded with joy as the north African country secured their first World Cup berth since 1986 with a win over Egypt on Wednesday.
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/ 18 November 2009
Thousands of Algerian and Egyptian fans have flocked into Khartoum in Sudan ahead of Wednesday’s make-or-break World Cup qualification play-off.
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/ 12 November 2009
A World Cup qualifier between Egypt and Algeria on Saturday has seen tensions between the North African rivals spill onto the Internet.
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/ 6 November 2009
The Desertec Industrial Initiative aims to provide 15% of Europe’s electricity by 2050 or earlier using power lines stretching across the desert.
Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Tunisia could qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa this weekend.
Algerian security forces shot dead a man wearing a belt carrying explosives as he prepared a suicide bombing, according to reports on Wednesday.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won 90,24% of the vote in a presidential election, cementing his hold on the oil producer.
Algerians voted on Thursday in an election in which President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is hoping for a big turnout and a crushing victory over his rivals.
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.
The Algerian interior minister on Monday denied allegations of human rights abuses contained in a United States State Department report.
The Algerian army killed seven Islamist militants during a raid on a secret base near the Algerian capital, a security official said on Monday.
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/ 24 February 2009
Abdelaziz Bouteflika is heading for a hollow victory in an election in April because he is ill-suited to the task of tackling youth 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.
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/ 13 October 2008
Algeria has announced it will spend €500-million on protecting towns from flooding as the death toll from floods this month rose to 43 on Sunday.
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.
People demonstrated in the flood-riven southern Algerian town of Ghardaia on Friday to demand urgent aid after flash floods killed 31 residents.
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/ 23 September 2008
The leader of al-Qaeda in North Africa has called for Muslims to unite in holy war against the region’s governments.
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/ 14 September 2008
Opec’s decision to cut output is proving ineffective against speculators, its president Chakib Khelil said on Saturday.
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/ 7 September 2008
The deadliest of the many blows suffered by Algiers’s disintegrating old quarter may actually be contemporary.
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/ 1 September 2008
From cutlass and canon to earthquake and flood, powerful forces have long done damage to the Algiers Casbah, fabled bastion of Barbary pirates.
A double bombing in Algeria killed at least 11 people on Wednesday a day after an attack that killed 43 people at a military academy.
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.
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa wing said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing in Algeria on Sunday, according to a statement posted on the internet.
A car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of Algiers on Sunday, wounding 21 people including six police officers.
Algeria’s former prime minister Ahmed Benbitour said his country would not reap any benefits from membership of the new Union for the Mediterranean.
The trial of two Algerian Christian converts accused of proselytising has been postponed for a week.
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.